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+> ikiwiki generates static pages in a filesystem. It's responsible
+> for editing and regenerating them, but they're served by any old
+> web server. If you go to the trouble of stuffing the generated pages
+> into a database, you'll need to go to further trouble to serve them
+> back out somehow: write your own web server, perhaps, or a module
+> for a particular web server. Either way you'll have sacrificed
+> ikiwiki's interoperability, and it's not at all clear (since you're
+> adding, in the best case, one layer of indirection reading the
+> generated files) you'll have gained any improved page-serving
+> performance. If it's source pages you want to store in a database,
+> then you lose the ability to do random Unixy things to source pages,
+> including managing them in a revision control system.
+>
+> Static HTML pages in a filesystem and the ability to do random
+> Unixy things are two of the uniquely awesome features of ikiwiki.
+> It's probably possible to do what you want, but it's unlikely that
+> you really want it. I'd suggest you either get to know ikiwiki better,
+> or choose one of the many wiki implementations that already works
+> as you describe. --[[Schmonz]]