ikiwiki-calendar: New command automates creation of archive pages using the calendar...

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+# NAME
+
+ikiwiki-calendar - create calendar archive pages
+
+# SYNOPSIS
+
+ikiwiki-calendar [-f] your.setup [pagespec] [year]
+
+# DESCRIPTION
+
+`ikiwiki-calendar` creates pages that use the [[ikiwiki/directive/calendar]]
+directive, allowing the archives to be browsed one month
+at a time, with calendar-based navigation.
+
+You must specify the setup file for your wiki. The pages will
+be created inside its `srcdir`, beneath the `archivebase`
+directory used by the calendar plugin (default "archives").
+
+You will probably want to specify a [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]]
+to control which pages are included on the calendars. The
+default is all pages. To limit it to only posts in a blog,
+use something like "posts/* and !*/Discussion".
+
+It defaults to creating calendar pages for the current
+year, as well as the previous year, and the next year.
+If you specify a year, it will create pages for that year.
+
+Existing pages will not be overwritten by this command by default.
+Use the `-f` switch to force it to overwrite any existing pages.
+
+## CRONTAB
+
+While this command only needs to be run once a year to update
+the archive pages for each new year, you are recommended to set up
+a cron job to run it daily, at midnight. Then it will also update
+the calendars to highlight the current day.
+
+An example crontab:
+
+       0 0 * * * ikiwiki-calendar ~/ikiwiki.setup "posts/* and !*/Discussion"
+
+# TEMPLATES
+
+This command uses two [[template|wikitemplates]] to generate
+the pages, `calendarmonth.tmpl` and `calendaryear.tmpl`.
+
+# AUTHOR
+
+Joey Hess <joey@ikiwiki.info>
+
+Warning: this page is automatically made into ikiwiki-calendar's man page, edit with care