The `ikiwiki-calendar` command can be used to automatically generate the
archive pages. It also refreshes the wiki, updating the calendars to
highlight the current day. This command is typically run at midnight from
-cron. An example crontab:
+cron.
An example crontab:
"month" or "year". The default is a month view calendar.
* `pages` - Specifies the [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]] of pages to link to from the
month calendar. Defaults to "*".
-* `archivebase` - Configures the base of the archives hierarchy. The
- default is "archives". Note that this default can also be overridden
+* `archivebase` - Configures the base of the archives hierarchy.
+ The default is "archives". Note that this default can also be overridden
for the whole wiki by setting `archivebase` in ikiwiki's setup file.
+ Calendars link to pages under here, with names like "2010/04" and
+ "2010". These pages can be automatically created using the
+ `ikiwiki-calendar` program.
* `year` - The year for which the calendar is requested. Defaults to the
- current year.
+ current year. Can also use -1 to refer to last year, and so on.
* `month` - The numeric month for which the calendar is requested, in the
range 1..12. Used only for the month view calendar, and defaults to the
- current month.
+ current month. Can also use -1 to refer to last month, and so on.
* `week_start_day` - A number, in the range 0..6, which represents the day
of the week that the month calendar starts with. 0 is Sunday, 1 is Monday,
and so on. Defaults to 0, which is Sunday.
-* `months_per_row` - In the annual calendar, number of months to place in
+* `months_per_row` - In the year calendar, number of months to place in
each row. Defaults to 3.
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