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+[[!meta date="2007-04-29 22:48:35 +0000"]]
+
 As of version 2.0, ikiwiki will switch to enabling the 'usedirs' setting by
 default. This *will* break all URLs to wikis that did not have 'usedirs'
 turned on before. You can either follow this procedure to convert your wiki
@@ -8,12 +10,21 @@ to usedirs, or edit your setup file and turn usedirs back off.
   or manually.
 * Since usedirs is enabled, ikiwiki will have created a bunch of new
   html files. Where before ikiwiki generated a `dest/foo.html`, now it will
-  generate `dest/foo/index.html`. But, the old html files will still be
-  present too. Remove them:
-	find dest -name \*.html -not -name index.html -exec rm {} \;
+  generate `dest/foo/index.html`. The old html files will be removed.
 * If you have a blog that is aggregated on a Planet or similar, all the
   items in the RSS or atom feed will seem like new posts, since their URLs
   have changed. See [[howto_avoid_flooding_aggregators]] for a workaround.
 * Now all the URLs to pages in your wiki have changed. See
   [[redirections_for_usedirs]] for instructions on setting up redirections
   to keep the old URLs working.
+
+Why usedirs?
+------------
+There are several advantages to `usedirs`, including simpler URLs, URLs that
+aren't dependent on the underlying implementation (`.html`), and being able to
+use URLs as tags as described in the [rel-tag
+microformat](http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag).
+
+The main disadvantage is that it is harder to browse using `file://` URIs,
+since `file:///dir/` doesn't automatically translate to `dir/index.html`. This
+is something one could fix in the browser though.