because "ikiwiki" is a nice palindrome. Partly because its design turns
the usual design for a Wiki inside-out and backwards.
+(BTW, I'm told that "iki" is Finnish for "forever" so ikiwiki is "forever wiki".)
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Oh, maybe you wanted to know why you'd want to choose ikiwiki instead of all the other wikis out there? Unless your personal strangeness significantly aligns with [[Joey]]'s, so that keeping everything in subversion, compiling websites to static html, and like design [[features]] appeal to you, you probably won't.
Hmm, the above paragraph is less true today than it was when I wrote it.
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