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@@ -82,11 +82,19 @@ configuration. It's called early in the startup process. The
 function is passed no values. It's ok for the function to call
 `error()` if something isn't configured right.
 
+### refresh
+
+       hook(type => "refresh", id => "foo", call => \&refresh);
+
+This hook is called just before ikiwiki scans the wiki for changed files.
+It's useful for plugins that need to create or modify a source page. The
+function is passed no values.
+
 ### needsbuild
 
        hook(type => "needsbuild", id => "foo", call => \&needsbuild);
 
-This allows a plugin the manipulate the list of files that need to be
+This allows a plugin to manipulate the list of files that need to be
 built when the wiki is refreshed. The function is passed a reference to an
 array of pages that will be rebuilt, and can modify the array, either
 adding or removing files from it.
@@ -214,8 +222,11 @@ source files that were rendered.
 
 Use this to hook into ikiwiki's cgi script. Each registered cgi hook is
 called in turn, and passed a CGI object. The hook should examine the
-parameters, and if it will handle this CGI request, output a page (including the http headers) and
-terminate the program.
+parameters, and if it will handle this CGI request, output a page
+(including the http headers) and terminate the program.
+
+Note that cgi hooks are called as early as possible, before any ikiwiki
+state is loaded, and with no session information.
 
 ### auth
 
@@ -523,6 +534,19 @@ destination file, as registered by `will_render`.
 Passed a page and an extension, returns the filename that page will be
 rendered to.
 
+## Internal use pages
+
+Sometimes it's useful to put pages in the wiki without the overhead of
+having them be rendered to individual html files. Such internal use pages
+are collected together to form the RecentChanges page, for example.
+
+To make an internal use page, register a filename extension that starts
+with "_". Internal use pages cannot be edited with the web interface,
+generally shouldn't contain wikilinks or preprocessor directives (use
+either on them with extreme caution), and are not matched by regular
+PageSpecs glob patterns, but instead only by a special `internal()`
+[[ikiwiki/PageSpec]].
+
 ## RCS plugins
 
 ikiwiki's support for [[revision_control_systems|rcs]] also uses pluggable