From 5383207703fa7791d5f3365dfedb4dc89c42c1e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawlRjjrKEyPmXnh2qBEGx9PgH5DP32wCMAQ" Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 04:20:15 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] --- ...te_should_support_uuid__44___date_variables.mdwn | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/todo/edittemplate_should_support_uuid__44___date_variables.mdwn diff --git a/doc/todo/edittemplate_should_support_uuid__44___date_variables.mdwn b/doc/todo/edittemplate_should_support_uuid__44___date_variables.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9d77f94a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/edittemplate_should_support_uuid__44___date_variables.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +I use a default template for all new pages: + + [[!meta title=""]] + [[!meta author=]] + [[!meta date=""]] + [[!meta guid="urn:uuid:"]] + [[!tag ]] + +This encourages me to include useful metadata on the page. In particular, though, I've modified the `edittemplate` plugin to generate a uuid for use in the guid, for use in `inline`. Importantly, this keeps `inline` from flooding aggregators when I rename these pages. + +I've also noticed that IkiWiki seems to use the creation time for the generated page for the page date. This means that when I do a rebuild, `inline`d pages get shuffled. The inclusion of a `time` variable in `edittemplate` (and in a `meta` declaration for all such pages) prevents the date from changing unexpectedly. + +I've already made these changes in my installation, and have made my patches available in the `edittemplate` branch of my repository, which [[I've posted|git]]. -- 2.39.5