If you prefer to use some other markup language, ikiwiki allows others to
easily be added by [[plugins]]. For example it also supports traditional
[[plugins/WikiText]] formatted pages, pages written as pure
-[[plugins/HTML]], or pages written in [[reStructuredText|plugins/rst]].
+[[plugins/HTML]], or pages written in [[reStructuredText|plugins/rst]]
+or [[Textile|plugins/textile]].
ikiwiki also supports files of any other type, including plain text,
images, etc. These are not converted to wiki pages, they are just copied
page. And RSS or Atom feeds can be generated to follow the blog.
Ikiwiki's own [[TODO]], [[news]], and [[plugins]] pages are good examples
-of some of the flexible ways that this can be used.
+of some of the flexible ways that this can be used. There is also an
+[[example_blog|examples/blog]] set up that you can copy into your own wiki.
Ikiwiki can also [[plugins/aggregate]] external blogs, feeding them into
the wiki. This can be used to create a Planet type site that aggregates
interesting feeds.
+You can also mix blogging with podcasting by dropping audio files where
+they will be picked up like blog posts. This will work for any files that
+you would care to syndicate.
+
## Valid html and [[css]]
ikiwiki aims to produce
-[valid XHTML 1.0](http://validator.w3.org/check?url=referer).
-ikiwiki generates html using [[templates]], and uses [[css]], so you can
-change the look and layout of all pages in any way you would like.
+[valid XHTML 1.0](http://validator.w3.org/check?url=referer). ikiwiki
+generates html using [[templates|wikitemplates]], and uses [[css]], so you
+can change the look and layout of all pages in any way you would like.
## [[Plugins]]
### User registration
-Can optionally be configured to allow only registered users to post
-pages; online user registration form, etc.
+Can optionally be configured to allow only registered users to edit
+pages.
+
+User registration can be done using a web form, or ikiwiki can be
+configured to accept users authenticated with OpenID, or HTTP basic
+authentication, or other methods implemented via plugins.
### Discussion pages
/Discussion subpage. By default, these links are included in the
[[templates]] for each page.
-### Page locking
+### Edit controls
-Wiki admins can lock pages so that only other admins can edit them.
+Wiki admins can [[lock_pages|page_locking]] so that only other admins can
+edit them. Or a wiki can be set up to allow anyone to edit Discussion
+pages, but only registered users to edit other pages. These are just two
+possibilities, since page edit controls can be changed via plugins.
### [[PageHistory]]
Well, sorta. Rather than implementing YA history browser, it can link to
-[[ViewCVS]] or the like to browse the history of a wiki page.
+[[ViewVC]] or the like to browse the history of a wiki page.
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