+[[!tag wishlist patch]]
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I use a default template for all new pages:
- [[!meta title="<TMPL_VAR name>"]]
- [[!meta author=]]
- [[!meta date="<TMPL_VAR time>"]]
- [[!meta guid="urn:uuid:<TMPL_VAR uuid>"]]
- [[!tag ]]
+ \[[!meta title="<TMPL_VAR name>"]]
+ \[[!meta author=]]
+ \[[!meta date="<TMPL_VAR time>"]]
+ \[[!meta guid="urn:uuid:<TMPL_VAR uuid>"]]
+ \[[!tag ]]
This encourages me to include useful metadata on the page. In particular, though, I've modified the `edittemplate` plugin to generate a uuid for use in the guid, for use in `inline`. Importantly, this keeps `inline` from flooding aggregators when I rename these pages.
I've also noticed that IkiWiki seems to use the creation time for the generated page for the page date. This means that when I do a rebuild, `inline`d pages get shuffled. The inclusion of a `time` variable in `edittemplate` (and in a `meta` declaration for all such pages) prevents the date from changing unexpectedly.
-I've already made these changes in my installation, and have made my patches available in the `edittemplate` branch of my repository, which [[I've posted|git]].
+I've already made these changes in my installation, and have made my patches available in the `edittemplate` branch of git://civilfritz.net/ikiwiki.git.
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+Changes to the structure of `$pagestate{$registering_page}{edittemplate}{$pagespec}` mean that a `cgi` rebuild is necessary (for reasons I don't entirely understand); but I think that's preferable to creating an entirely separate `$pagestate` namespace for storing parameters. That said, I'm not really a perl programmer, so corrections are welcome.
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+> I like this patch. I hate seeing things I've already read get marked as unread in my rss feed. -- [[JoshBBall]]