>>> --[[Joey]]
>>>> This is exactly what I was looking for and it took me a while to find it. I very much support the idea to provide this as a regular plugin, be it merged with pagetemplate or stand-alone. Thank you for your work and code! --BenTo
+
+>>>> Any update on this. This could be very helpful as I plan to run a section of a wiki with a different language (and language settings like RTL-ed CSS). --Nezmer
+
+>>>>> I've implemented this functionality as part of `pagetemplate` as on my "pagetemplate" branch of ikiwiki at https://github.com/rubykat/ikiwiki/tree/pagetemplate - do you want to pull this, Joey?
+>>>>> It isn't implemented quite the same way as Will did; I have the template name first and the pagespec last, but it does the same thing.
+>>>>> --[[KathrynAndersen]]
+
+Just a quick note that Kathryn's branch is ready.[[!template id=gitbranch branch=rubykat/pagetemplate author="[[KathrynAndersen]]"]][[!tag patch]] --[[Will]]
+
+> Review:
+>
+> The indentation seems odd. IkiWiki is mostly indented with hard tabs;
+> this seems to be a mixture of tabs and spaces, assuming 4 spaces per tab.
+>
+> [[!format perl """
+sub checkconfig () {
+...
+ ! defined IkiWiki::template_file($tmpl))
+"""]]
+>
+> I think `checkconfig` is too soon to rely on `template_file`
+> producing correct results? It looks in `%pagesources` which has not
+> yet been updated.
+>
+> If we had a "just before building" hook, that would be a good time
+> to emit warnings; or doing it once per run, on-demand, triggered
+> by the first call to the `templatefile` hook could work. Or the
+> hook could just silently ignore bad pagespecs?
+>
+> --[[smcv]]