X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/05327034a20a6306e2ec214009ccc5febb1227bc..b6f0bcb54c56670165f402b221cdc83cdc39aa18:/doc/whyikiwiki.mdwn diff --git a/doc/whyikiwiki.mdwn b/doc/whyikiwiki.mdwn index 11d6e65c2..2bc1fe416 100644 --- a/doc/whyikiwiki.mdwn +++ b/doc/whyikiwiki.mdwn @@ -1,6 +1,15 @@ -Why call it IkiWiki? Well, partly because I'm sure some people will find +Why call it ikiwiki? Well, partly because I'm sure some people will find this a pretty Iky Wiki, since it's so different from other Wikis. Partly because "ikiwiki" is a nice palindrome. Partly because its design turns the usual design for a Wiki inside-out and backwards. -Oh, maybe you wanted to know why you'd want to choose ikiwiki instead of all the other wikis out there? Unless your personal strangeness significantly aligns with [[Joey]]'s, so that keeping everything in subversion, compiling websites to static html, and like design [[features]] appeal to you, you probably won't. \ No newline at end of file +(BTW, I'm told that "iki" is Finnish for "forever" so ikiwiki is "forever +wiki".) + +Oh, maybe you wanted to know why you'd want to choose ikiwiki instead of +all the other wikis out there? Unless your personal strangeness +significantly aligns with [[Joey]]'s, so that keeping everything in +subversion, compiling websites to static html, and like design [[features]] +appeal to you, you probably won't. + +Hmm, the above paragraph is less true today than it was when I wrote it.