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 This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki.
 
 This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki.
 

-1. [[Install]] ikiwiki. See [[download]] for where to get it.
+1. [[Download]] and [[install]] ikiwiki.

 
 2. Decide where your wiki's files will go.
 
 
 2. Decide where your wiki's files will go.
 

-   As a wiki compiler, ikiwiki builds a wiki from files in a source
-   directory, and outputs the files to a destination directory.
+   As a wiki compiler, ikiwiki builds a wiki from files in a source directory,
+   and outputs the files to a destination directory.  If you keep your wiki in
+   a version control system, the source directory will contain a working copy
+   checked out from the version control system.

 
    For the purposes of this tutorial, we'll set shell variables
    for these locations, and use those variables in the commands that follow.
 
    For the purposes of this tutorial, we'll set shell variables
    for these locations, and use those variables in the commands that follow.


@@ -13,6 +15,9 @@ This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki.
                        SRCDIR=~/wikiwc
                        DESTDIR=~/public_html/wiki/
 
                        SRCDIR=~/wikiwc
                        DESTDIR=~/public_html/wiki/
 

+   Note that ikiwiki owns the working copy directory; do not perform your own
+   edits in ikiwiki's working copy.
+

 3. Create the beginnings of your wiki.
 
    This will create a simple main page for the wiki.
 3. Create the beginnings of your wiki.
 
    This will create a simple main page for the wiki.


@@ -40,7 +45,7 @@ This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki.
 
 4. Build your wiki for the first time.
 
 
 4. Build your wiki for the first time.
 

-                       ikiwiki --verbose $SRCDIR $DESTDIR --url=http://host/~you/wiki/
+                       ikiwiki --verbose $SRCDIR $DESTDIR --url=http://example.org/~you/wiki/

 
    Replace the url with the real url to your wiki. You should now
    be able to visit the url and see your wiki.
 
    Replace the url with the real url to your wiki. You should now
    be able to visit the url and see your wiki.