The header of subpages always links to its "superpage", even if it doesn't exist. I'm not sure if this is a feature or a bug, but I would certainly prefer that superpages weren't mandatory. For example, if you are in 'example/page.html', the header will be something like 'wiki / example / page'. Now, if 'example.html' doesn't exist, you'll have a dead link for every subpage. --- This is a bug, but fixing it is very tricky. Consider what would happen if example.mdwn were created: example/page.html and the rest of example/* would need to be updated to change the parentlink from a bare work to a link to the new page. Now if example.mdwn were removed again, they'd need to be updated again. So example/* depends on example. But it's even more tricky, because if example.mdwn is modified, we _don't_ want to rebuild example/*! ikiwiki doesn't have a way to represent this dependency and can't get one without a lot of new complex code being added. For now the best thing to do is to make sure that you always create example if you create example/foo. Which is probably a good idea anyway.. ---- Note that this bug does not exist if the wiki is built with the "usedirs" option, since in that case, the parent link will link to a subdirectory, that will just be missing the index.html file, but still nicely usable.