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 … To put it short: an Ikiwiki newbie.
 
-Currently, I run a couple of Ikiwiki instances.  Namely:
+[Altai State University]: http://www.asu.ru/
+[Emacs]: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
+[Lynx]: http://lynx.isc.org/
+[Software Freedom Day]: http://sf-day.org/
 
-* <http://lhc.am-1.org/lhc/>
-  &mdash; to hold random stuff written by me, my colleagues,
-  students, etc.
+## Wikis
+
+Currently, I run a few Ikiwiki instances.  Namely:
+
+* <http://sfd.am-1.org/>
+  &mdash; [Software Freedom Day][]
+  event at [Altai State University][].
+
+* <https://spire.am-1.org/>
+  &mdash; introductory materials
+  on XML, Markdown, Ikiwiki, etc.
+  in Russian.
 
-* <http://rsdesne.am-1.org/rsdesne-2010/>
-  &mdash; for some of the materials related to the
-  &ldaquo;Remote Sensing in Education, Science and National
-  Economy&rdaquo; (2010-03-29 &hellip; 2010-04-10, Altai State
-  University) program I've recently recently participated in as
+* <http://am-1.org/~ivan/networks-2011/>
+  &mdash; bits &amp; pieces related to the course on computer
+  networks I've read in 2011.
+
+* http://rsdesne.am-1.org/rsdesne-2010/
+  **(down since December, 2012)**
+  &mdash; used to hold some of the materials related to the
+  &ldquo;Remote Sensing in Education, Science and National
+  Economy&rdquo; (2010-03-29 &hellip; 2010-04-10, Altai State
+  University) program I've participated in as
   an instructor.
+
+* http://lhc.am-1.org/lhc/
+  **(down since December, 2012)**
+  &mdash; used to hold random stuff written by me, my colleagues,
+  students, etc.
+
+## Preferences
+
+I prefer to use [Lynx][] along with [Emacs][] (via
+`emacsclient`) to work with the wikis.  (Note the &ldquo;Local
+variables&rdquo; section below.)
+
+The things I dislike in the wiki engines are:
+
+* the use of home-brew specialized version control systems
+  &mdash; while there're a lot of much more developed general
+  purpose ones;
+
+* oversimplified syntax
+  &mdash; which (to some extent) precludes more sophisticated
+  forms of automated processing; in particular, this forces one
+  to reformat the material, once complete, to, say, prepare a
+  book, or an article, or slides.
+
+Out of all the wiki engines I'm familiar with, only Ikiwiki is
+free of the first of these.  I hope that it will support more
+elaborate syntaxes eventually.
+
+----
+
+    Local variables:
+    mode: markdown
+    coding: utf-8
+    fill-column: 64
+    ispell-local-dictionary: "american"
+    End: