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@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ ikiwiki --setup configfile
 # DESCRIPTION
 
 `ikiwiki` is a wiki compiler. It builds static html pages for a wiki, from
-`source` in the [[MarkDown]] language, and writes it out to `destination`.
+`source` in the [[MarkDown]] language (or others), and writes it out to
+`destination`.
 
 Note that most options can be shortened to single letters, and boolean
 flags such as --verbose can be negated with --no-verbose.
@@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ These options control the mode that ikiwiki is operating in.
   directory. The filename to use for the wrapper is optional.
 
   The wrapper is designed to be safely made suid and be run by untrusted
-  users, as a [[Subversion]] [[post-commit]] hook, or as a [[CGI]].
+  users, as a [[post-commit]] hook, or as a [[CGI]].
 
   Note that the generated wrapper will ignore all command line parameters.
 
@@ -57,14 +58,31 @@ These options control the mode that ikiwiki is operating in.
 
   The default action when --setup is specified is to automatically generate
   wrappers for a wiki based on data in a config file, and rebuild the wiki.
-  If you also pass the --refresh option, ikiwiki will instead just refresh
-  the wiki described in the setup file.
 
   [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file.
 
+* --wrappers
+
+  If used with --setup --refresh, this makes it also update any configured
+  wrappers.
+
+* --aggregate
+
+  If the aggregate plugin is enabled, this makes ikiwiki poll configured
+  feeds and save new posts to the srcdir.
+
+  Note that to rebuild previously aggregated posts, use the --rebuild option
+  along with this one. --rebuild will also force feeds to be polled even if
+  they were polled recently.
+
+* --version
+
+  Print ikiwiki version number.
+
 # CONFIG OPTIONS
 
-These options configure the wiki.
+These options configure the wiki. Note that plugins can add additional
+configuration options of their own.
 
 * --wikiname
 
@@ -88,14 +106,17 @@ These options configure the wiki.
 * --notify
 
   Enable email notification of commits. This should be used when running
-  ikiwiki as a [[Subversion]] [[post-commit]] hook.
+  ikiwiki as a [[post-commit]] hook.
 
 * --rcs=svn, --no-rcs
 
   Enable or disable use of a revision control system.
 
-  If you use svn ([[Subversion]]), the `source` directory is assumed to be
-  a working copy, and is automatically updated before building the wiki.
+  If you use svn, the `source` directory is assumed to be
+  a [[Subversion]] working copy.
+
+  If you use git, the `source` directory is assumed to be a clone of the
+  [[git]] repository.
 
   In [[CGI]] mode, with a revision control system enabled pages edited via
   the web will be committed. Also, the [[RecentChanges]] link will be placed
@@ -125,7 +146,16 @@ These options configure the wiki.
   If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate rss feeds for pages that inline
   a [[blog]].
 
-* --url http://url/
+* --pingurl url
+
+  Set this to the url to an XML-RPC service to ping when an RSS feed is
+  updated. For example, to ping Technorati, use the url
+  http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
+
+  This parameter can be specified multiple times to specify more than one
+  url to ping.
+
+* --url url
 
   Specifies the url to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.
 
@@ -134,7 +164,7 @@ These options configure the wiki.
   Specifies the url to the ikiwiki [[CGI]] script wrapper. Required when
   building the wiki for links to the cgi script to be generated.
 
-* --historyurl http://url/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki
+* --historyurl url
 
   Specifies the url to link to for page history browsing. In the url,
   "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse. It's common to use
@@ -144,7 +174,7 @@ These options configure the wiki.
 
   Specifies the email address that ikiwiki should use for sending email.
 
-* --diffurl http://url/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki&r1=\[[r1]]&r2=\[[r2]]
+* --diffurl url
 
   Specifies the url to link to for a diff of changes to a page. In the url,
   "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse, "\[[r1]]" is the old
@@ -164,8 +194,8 @@ These options configure the wiki.
 
 * --plugin name
 
-  Enables the use of the specified plugin in the wiki. See [[plugins]] for
-  details. Note that plugin names are case sensative.
+  Enables the use of the specified [[plugin|plugins]] in the wiki. 
+  Note that plugin names are case sensative.
 
 * --disable-plugin name
 
@@ -182,10 +212,19 @@ These options configure the wiki.
   Specify how to display the time or date. The format string is passed to the
   strftime(3) function.
 
-* --verbose
+* --verbose, --no-verbose
 
   Be vebose about what is being done.
 
+* --syslog, --no-syslog
+
+  Log to syslog.
+
+* --w3mmode, --no-w3mmode
+
+  Enable [[w3mmode]], which allows w3m to use ikiwiki as a local CGI script,
+  without a web server.
+
 * --getctime
 
   Pull last changed time for each new page out of the revision control