something like this:
<pre>
-[[missingparents pages="posts/* and !posts/*/*" generate="""[[template id=year text="$page"]]"""]]
-[[missingparents pages="posts/*/* and !posts/*/*/*" generate="""[[template id=month text="$page"]]"""]]
-[[missingparents pages="posts/*/*/* and !posts/*/*/*/*" generate="""[[template id=day text="$page"]]"""]]
+[[!missingparents pages="posts/* and !posts/*/*" generate="""[[!template id=year text="$page"]]"""]]
+[[!missingparents pages="posts/*/* and !posts/*/*/*" generate="""[[!template id=month text="$page"]]"""]]
+[[!missingparents pages="posts/*/*/* and !posts/*/*/*/*" generate="""[[!template id=day text="$page"]]"""]]
</pre>
And it scans the whole wiki for pages that match the pagespecs but are missing
===================================================================
--- IkiWiki/Plugin/missingparents.pm (revision 0)
+++ IkiWiki/Plugin/missingparents.pm (revision 0)
-@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+# missingparents plugin: detect missing parents of pages and create them
+package IkiWiki::Plugin::missingparents;
+my %ownfiles;
+my @pagespecs;
+
-+sub import { #{{{
++sub import {
+ hook(type => "checkconfig", id => "missingparents", call => \&checkconfig);
+ hook(type => "needsdelete", id => "missingparents", call => \&needsdelete);
+ hook(type => "needsbuild", id => "missingparents", call => \&needsbuild);
+ hook(type => "savestate", id => "missingparents", call => \&savestate);
+ hook(type => "preprocess", id => "missingparents", call => \&preprocess_missingparents);
-+} # }}}
++}
+
-+sub checkconfig () { #{{{
++sub checkconfig () {
+ IkiWiki::preprocess("missingparents", "missingparents",
+ readfile(srcfile("missingparents.mdwn")));
+ loadstate();
+ unlink $config{srcdir}.'/'.$file;
+ }
+ }
-+} #}}}
++}
+
-+sub preprocess_missingparents (@) { #{{{
++sub preprocess_missingparents (@) {
+ my %params=@_;
+
+ if (! defined $params{pages} || ! defined $params{generate}) {
-+ return "[[missingparents ".gettext("missing pages or generate parameter")."]]";
++ return "[[!missingparents ".gettext("missing pages or generate parameter")."]]";
+ }
+
+ push @pagespecs, \%params;
+ #translators: is text for pages that match that pagespec.
+ return sprintf(gettext("missingparents in %s will be %s"),
+ '`'.$params{pages}.'`', '`\\'.$params{generate}.'`');
-+} # }}}
++}
+
+my $state_loaded=0;
-+sub loadstate() { #{{{
++sub loadstate() {
+ my $filename = "$config{wikistatedir}/missingparents";
+ if (-e $filename) {
+ open (IN, $filename) ||
+
+ $state_loaded=1;
+ }
-+} #}}}
++}
+
-+sub savestate() { #{{{
++sub savestate() {
+ my $filename = "$config{wikistatedir}/missingparents.new";
+ my $cleanup = sub { unlink ($filename) };
+ open (OUT, ">$filename") || error("open $filename: $!", $cleanup);
+ }
+ rename($filename, "$config{wikistatedir}/missingparents") ||
+ error("rename $filename: $!", $cleanup);
-+} #}}}
++}
+
-+sub needsdelete (@) { #{{{
++sub needsdelete (@) {
+ my $files=shift;
+
+ my @mydel;
+ foreach my $page (@mydel){
+ push @{$files}, $page;
+ }
-+} #}}}
++}
+
-+sub check_matches($) { #{{{
++sub check_matches($) {
+ my $page = shift;
+ return if $IkiWiki::pagesources{$page};
+
+ return $output;
+ }
+ return "";
-+} #}}}
++}
+
-+sub needsbuild ($) { #{{{
++sub needsbuild ($) {
+ my $files=shift;
+ my @new;
+
+ foreach my $file (@{$files}) {
++ if ($ownfiles{$file}) {
++ # someone edited our file, making it the
++ # user's problem
++ delete $ownfiles{$file};
++ next;
++ }
+ my $page = pagename $file;
+ my $newfile = "";
+ foreach my $parent (split '/', $page) {
+ $ownfiles{$file} = 1;
+ push @{$files}, $file;
+ }
-+} #}}}
++}
+
+1
-Index: IkiWiki/Plugin/rst.pm
-===================================================================
---- IkiWiki/Plugin/rst.pm (revision 3926)
-+++ IkiWiki/Plugin/rst.pm (working copy)
-@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
- html = publish_string(stdin.read(), writer_name='html',
- settings_overrides = { 'halt_level': 6,
- 'file_insertion_enabled': 0,
-- 'raw_enabled': 0 }
-+ 'raw_enabled': 1 }
- );
- print html[html.find('<body>')+6:html.find('</body>')].strip();
- ";
Index: IkiWiki.pm
===================================================================
--- IkiWiki.pm (revision 3926)
our $version='unknown'; # VERSION_AUTOREPLACE done by Makefile, DNE
@@ -330,6 +336,30 @@
error("failed renaming $newfile to $destdir/$file: $!", $cleanup);
- } #}}}
+ }
-+sub newpage($$) { #{{{
++sub newpage($$) {
+ my $file=shift;
+ my $page=shift;
+
+ $pagemtime{$page} = $pagectime{$page} = time;
+ $pagesources{$page} = $file;
+ $pagecase{lc $page} = $page;
-+} #}}}
++}
+
-+sub delpage($) { #{{{
++sub delpage($) {
+ my $page=shift;
+ $links{$page}=[];
+ $renderedfiles{$page}=[];
+ delete $destsources{$_};
+ }
+ }
-+} #}}}
++}
+
my %cleared;
- sub will_render ($$;$) { #{{{
+ sub will_render ($$;$) {
my $page=shift;
-</pre>
\ No newline at end of file
+</pre>
+
+[[!tag patch]]