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@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
 [[Ikiwiki]] uses many templates for many purposes. By editing its templates,
 you can fully customise this site.
 
-Templates are located in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates` by default;
-the `templatedir` setting can be used to make another directory be
-searched first. Customised templates can also be placed inside the
-"templates/" directory in your wiki's source.
-
 Ikiwiki uses the HTML::Template module as its template engine. This
 supports things like conditionals and loops in templates and is pretty
 easy to learn. All you really need to know to modify templates is this:
@@ -38,16 +33,26 @@ and enabled(inline)" then="""
 
 [[!inline pages="templates/* and !*.tmpl and !templates/*/* and !*/discussion"
 feeds=no archive=yes sort=title template=titlepage
-rootpage=templates postformtext="Add a new template named:"]]
+rootpage=templates postformtext="Add a new template page named:"]]
 """]]
 
-## wiki templates
+## template files
+
+Template files are unlike template pages in that they have the extension
+`.tmpl`. Template files are used extensively by Ikiwiki to generate html.
+They can contain html that would not normally be allowed on a wiki page.
+
+Template files are located in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates` by default;
+the `templatedir` setting can be used to make another directory be
+searched first. Customised template files can also be placed inside the
+"templates/" directory in your wiki's source -- files placed there override
+ones in the `templatedir`.
 
-These templates are used to build the wiki. The aim is to keep almost all
-html out of ikiwiki and in the templates.
+Here is a full list of the template files used:
 
 * `page.tmpl` - Used for displaying all regular wiki pages. This is the
-  key template to customise. [[!if test="enabled(pagetemplate)" then="""
+  key template to customise to change the look and feel of your site.
+  [[!if test="enabled(pagetemplate)" then="""
   (The [[!iki ikiwiki/directive/pagetemplate desc="pagetemplate directive"]]
   can be used to make a page use a different template than `page.tmpl`.)"""]]
 * `rsspage.tmpl` - Used for generating rss feeds for blogs.