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@@ -4,15 +4,13 @@ An overview of some of ikiwiki's features:
 ## Uses a real RCS
 
 Rather than implement its own system for storing page histories etc,
-ikiwiki uses a real Revision Control System. This isn't because we're
+ikiwiki uses a real Revision Control System. This isn't (just) because we're
 lazy, it's because a real RCS is a good thing to have, and there are
 advantages to using one that are not possible with a standard wiki.
 
 Instead of editing pages in a stupid web form, you can use vim and commit
-changes via [[Subversion]]. Or work disconnected using svk and push your
-changes out when you come online. Or use [[git]], [[tla]], or [[mercurial]]
-to work in a distributed fashion all the time. (It's also possible to
-[[plugins/write]] a plugin to support other systems.)
+changes via [[Subversion|rcs/svn]], [[rcs/git]], or any of a number of other
+[[Revision_Control_Systems|rcs]].
 
 ikiwiki can be run from a [[post-commit]] hook to update your wiki
 immediately whenever you commit a change using the RCS.
@@ -47,7 +45,7 @@ images, etc. These are not converted to wiki pages, they are just copied
 unchanged by ikiwiki as it builds your wiki. So you can check in an image,
 program, or other special file and link to it from your wiki pages.
 
-## [[Blogging|blog]]
+## Blogging
 
 You can turn any page in the wiki into a [[blog]]. Pages matching a
 specified [[PageSpec]] will be displayed as a weblog within the blog
@@ -68,9 +66,9 @@ you would care to syndicate.
 ## Valid html and [[css]]
 
 ikiwiki aims to produce 
-[valid XHTML 1.0](http://validator.w3.org/check?url=referer).
-ikiwiki generates html using [[templates]], and uses [[css]], so you can 
-change the look and layout of all pages in any way you would like.
+[valid XHTML 1.0](http://validator.w3.org/check?url=referer). ikiwiki
+generates html using [[templates|wikitemplates]], and uses [[css]], so you
+can change the look and layout of all pages in any way you would like.
 
 ## [[Plugins]]
 
@@ -81,6 +79,10 @@ and more. Most of ikiwiki's features are actually provided by plugins.
 Ikiwiki's backend RCS support is also pluggable, so support for new
 revision control systems can be added to ikiwiki.
 
+The standard language for ikiwiki plugins is perl, but ikiwiki also supports
+[[plugins/write/external]] plugins: Standalone programs that can be written in
+any language and communicate with ikiwiki using XML RPC.
+
 ## [[todo/utf8]]
 
 After rather a lot of fiddling, we think that ikiwiki correctly and fully