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@@ -5,3 +5,13 @@ Just a quick note that some people are making noise about Markdown standardisati
   * <http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/faq.html#what-are-some-big-questions-that-the-markdown-spec-does-not-answer>
 
 It might be worth following...
   * <http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/faq.html#what-are-some-big-questions-that-the-markdown-spec-does-not-answer>
 
 It might be worth following...
+
+> ikiwiki does not implement Markdown: we use a third-party library for that
+> (there are several options, but the recommended one is currently
+> [[!cpan Text::Markdown::Discount]]). We support whatever dialect
+> of Markdown is implemented by the chosen Markdown implementation.
+>
+> As a result, nothing is likely to change in ikiwiki's interpretation of
+> Markdown unless someone either changes the behaviour of Discount,
+> or recommends a different (and hopefully better) third-party library.
+> --[[smcv]]