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diff --git a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
index cde0b50fd..1b78f5900 100644
--- a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
@@ -188,6 +188,10 @@ languages to ikiwiki.
 The function is passed named parameters: "page" and "content" and should
 return the htmlized content.
 
+If `hook` is passed an optional "keepextension" parameter, set to a true
+value, then this extension will not be stripped from the source filename when
+generating the page.
+
 ### pagetemplate
 
 	hook(type => "pagetemplate", id => "foo", call => \&pagetemplate);
@@ -449,8 +453,8 @@ your ikiwiki setup file, which sets the hash content to configure the wiki.
 
 The `%pagestate` hash can be used by plugins to save state that they will need
 next time ikiwiki is run. The hash holds per-page state, so to set a value,
-use `%pagestate{$page}{$id}{$key}=$value`, and to retrieve the value,
-use `%pagestate{$page}{$id}{$key}`.
+use `$pagestate{$page}{$id}{$key}=$value`, and to retrieve the value,
+use `$pagestate{$page}{$id}{$key}`.
 
 The `$value` can be anything that perl's Storable module is capable of
 serializing. `$key` can be any string you like, but `$id` must be the same
@@ -463,6 +467,15 @@ When pages are deleted, ikiwiki automatically deletes their pagestate too.
 Note that page state does not persist across wiki rebuilds, only across
 wiki updates.
 
+### %wikistate
+
+The `%wikistate` hash can be used by a plugin to store persistant state
+that is not bound to any one page. To set a value, use
+`$wikistate{$id}{$key}=$value, where `$value` is anything Storable can
+serialize, `$key` is any string you like, and `$id` must be the same as the
+"id" parameter passed to `hook()` when registering the plugin, so that the
+state can be dropped if the plugin is no longer used.
+
 ### Other variables
 
 If your plugin needs to access data about other pages in the wiki. It can
@@ -518,6 +531,9 @@ parameters are passed to `HTML::Template->new`.
 Passed a page name, returns the base name that will be used for a the html
 page created from it. (Ie, it appends ".html".)
 
+Use this when constructing the filename of a html file. Use `urlto` when
+generating a link to a page.
+
 #### `add_depends($$)`
 
 Makes the specified page depend on the specified [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]].
@@ -620,6 +636,23 @@ a type that ikiwiki knowns how to htmlize. Otherwise, returns undef.
 Given the name of a source file, returns the name of the wiki page
 that corresponds to that file.
 
+#### `pagetitle($)`
+
+Give the name of a wiki page, returns a version suitable to be displayed as
+the page's title. This is accomplished by de-escaping escaped characters in
+the page name. "_" is replaced with a space, and '__NN__' is replaced by 
+the UTF character with code NN.
+
+#### `titlepage($)`
+
+This performs the inverse of `pagetitle`, ie, it converts a page title into
+a wiki page name.
+
+#### `linkpage($)`
+
+This converts text that could have been entered by the user as a
+[[WikiLink]] into a wiki page name.
+
 #### `srcfile($;$)`
 
 Given the name of a source file in the wiki, searches for the file in
@@ -658,6 +691,12 @@ destination file, as registered by `will_render`.
 If the third parameter is passed and is true, an absolute url will be
 constructed instead of the default relative url.
 
+#### `newpagefile($$)`
+
+This can be called when creating a new page, to determine what filename
+to save the page to. It's passed a page name, and its type, and returns
+the name of the file to create, relative to the srcdir.
+
 #### `targetpage($$)`
 
 Passed a page and an extension, returns the filename that page will be
@@ -719,8 +758,8 @@ Changes can be staged by calls to `rcs_add, `rcs_remove`, and
 Adds the passed file to the archive. The filename is relative to the root
 of the srcdir.
 
-Note that this should not check the new file in, it should only
-prepare for it to be checked in when rcs_commit (or `rcs_commit_staged`) is
+Note that this should not commit the new file, it should only
+prepare for it to be committed when rcs_commit (or `rcs_commit_staged`) is
 called. Note that the file may be in a new subdir that is not yet in
 to version control; the subdir can be added if so.
 
@@ -728,9 +767,9 @@ to version control; the subdir can be added if so.
 
 Remove a file. The filename is relative to the root of the srcdir.
 
-Note that this should not check the removal in, it should only prepare for it
-to be checked in when `rcs_commit` (or `rcs_commit_staged`) is called. Note
-that the new file may be in a new subdir that is not yet inversion
+Note that this should not commit the removal, it should only prepare for it
+to be committed when `rcs_commit` (or `rcs_commit_staged`) is called. Note
+that the new file may be in a new subdir that is not yet in version
 control; the subdir can be added if so.
 
 #### `rcs_rename($$)`
@@ -805,6 +844,6 @@ when imported, populate `$IkiWiki::Setup::raw_setup` with a reference
 to a hash containing all the config items. They should also implement a
 `gendump` function.
 
-By the way, to parse a ikiwiki setup file, a program just needs to
-do something like:
-`use IkiWiki::Setup; my %setup=IkiWiki::Setup::load($filename)`
+By the way, to parse a ikiwiki setup file and populate `%config`, a
+program just needs to do something like:
+`use IkiWiki::Setup; IkiWiki::Setup::load($filename)`