Some inconsistences around the toplevel [[index]] page: * [[ikiwiki]] is a separate page; links to [[ikiwiki]] should better go to the [[index]] though. * The toplevel [[ikiwiki/Discussion]] page has some weird parentlinks behavior. This could be special cased around with the following patch. However, I'm unsure if I like the idea of more special cases around this. It would be better to find a way to make the toplevel index page not be a special case at all. Here is a patch: --- IkiWiki/Render.pm (revision 1187) +++ IkiWiki/Render.pm (working copy) @@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ my $path=""; my $skip=1; return if $page eq 'index'; # toplevel + $path=".." if $page=~s/^index\///; foreach my $dir (reverse split("/", $page)) { if (! $skip) { $path.="../"; --- > I would like to suggest another tack, namely a bigger, better special case. > The basic idea is that all indices of the form foo/bar/index get the wiki path foo/bar. > This makes some things more elegant: > > * All files having to do with foo/bar are in the foo/bar directory, rather > than the (admittedly minor) wart of having the index be in foo/. > * This sort of addresses [[bugs/broken_parentlinks]] in that example/ is > guaranteed to be a valid path. (There might be no index there, though.) > * This is more in line with standard HTML practice, as far as I understand it, > namely that linking to a/b means a/b/index.html rather than a/b.html. > > This would change the inline plugin in strange ways -- I think if foo/index.html > contains \[[inline "* and !*/Discussion"]], it should skip inlining foo/index.html > explicitly, but would inline index pages in child directories > foo/bar/baz/index.html as bar/baz. > > It always bothers me that foo/bar/ files need a foo/bar.html in front of them, > rather than a foo/bar/index.html, as is (to my mind) traditional. > > Ethan > > Hmm, now I've had time to think about this, and this does conflict pretty hard with foo.html/Discussion > pages. Well, back to the drawing board. > > Well, it seems unlikely that you'll have both foo/bar.html and foo/bar/index.html, > so why not accept either as foo/bar? This would both preserve backwards > compatibility, as well as allow foo/bar/Discussion. > > Ethan > > No, in order for this to work, the wiki path foo/bar/baz could be any of: > > * foo/bar/baz.html > * foo/index/bar/index/baz.html > * foo/bar/index/baz.html > * foo/bar/index/baz/index.html > > Or many others. Which is probably even hackier than having both foo.html and foo/. > > Ethan