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@@ -22,3 +22,19 @@ on vacation".
 > pages. Alternatively, for larger organisations wishing to deploy more
 > sweeping changes on a given date, replace cron job with intern.. ;-)
 > --[[Joey]]
+
+> > Good approach if you have one day on which a big change goes through, but
+> > often the reason for tagging with a publication date is so that you can
+> > dribble out articles one per day when you're gone for a week.  Branches are easy
+> > in git, but it would still be an extra step to switch branches every time
+> > you edit a different day's article.
+> >
+> > And just to make it a little harder, some sites might want an internal 
+> > copy of the wiki that _does_ build the future pages, just tags them with the publication
+> > date, for previewing.
+> > 
+> > One more reason to have publication date: if you move a page from your old CMS to ikiwiki
+> > and want to have it show up in the right order in RSS feeds.
+> >
+> > I no longer have the original wiki for which I wanted this feature, but I can
+> > see using it on future ones. -- [[DonMarti]]