[admon-caution.png]: https://moinmo.in/moin_static19/modernized/img/admon-caution.png
Update: I have made a [[plugins/contrib/admonition]] plugin for this
-purpose, as a patch. Hopefully it will be mergeable here?
+purpose, as a patch. Hopefully it will be mergeable here? Here's a
+screenshot of what the help page would look like, to give you an idea
+of the results:
+
+<img src="http://paste.anarc.at/snaps/snap-2016.04.15-18.07.39.png" />
+
+---
+
+I like the idea of admonitions. I've done something vaguely similar on my own site ([e.g.](https://jmtd.net/film/blade_runner/)), but I just
+use `\[[!template` and put up with the verbosity.I like that `\[[!tip` is shorter than `\[[!template id=…`. If
+I was being a total purist I'd argue that the correct change would be to make a syntax shortcut
+for the template syntax, since functionally that's what `tip` is doing, and include the
+admonition styles in either `style.css` or in every shipped theme. But I'm more of a pragmatist
+and your current plugin actually exists and IkiWiki is starving for contributors (IMHO)
+so I encourage maintainers to merge it. I will probably merge it into [opinionated ikiwiki](https://jmtd.net/log/opinionated_ikiwiki/)
+in either case (which will at least mean there'll be another avenue for people to check it out) *— [[Jon]], 2020-08-07*
+
+> One quick tip/request, [[anarcat]]: If you could update the "master" branch in your IkiWiki
+> fork to match the merge base for your branches, it would be easy to use Gitlab's "compare"
+> feature in-browser to see a combined diff of your changes. *— [[Jon]], 2020-08-07*
+
+> > Thanks for your support and comments! :) I don't have the time to manage another extra branch on top of the stack I already have unfortunately. but it might be simpler for me in the future... I keep on hoping all patches get merged and that i don't need to (more officially) fork `master`, but it seems that's where I need to go myself... In the meantime you can see the list of patches I maintain in [[users/anarcat]] and [my maintenance log](https://anarc.at/services/wiki/). I hope that helps! -- [[anarcat]]
+
+> > Turns out I found the time. I merged all my active branches in the `master` branch on gitlab. not sure what you'd compare it against, but there, it's done. :) [[anarcat]]
+
+>>> Thanks for that! I'll try to explain what I meant in terms of an example. your `admonitions` is a series of commits that ultimately sit on top of
+>>> upstream's `d0099568` ("Prepare release for unstable"). If I want to see a quick combined diff of all the changes made in that branch, I can try to
+>>> use GitLab's "Compare" feature, but it does not let me specify a SHA to compare against, only a ref-name such as (your) `master`, which (at the time)
+>>> was a much earlier commit than `d0099568`, so "Compare" would include all the unrelated upstream changes. If instead either `master` was `d0099568`, or
+>>> `admonitions` was rebased on top of whatever your `master` was, then GitLab's "Compare" would be useful. As it is, I cloned locally and did the necessary
+>>> `git` incantation. *— [[Jon]], 2020-08-12*