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 This confuses me enormously. Perhaps because I am new to ikiwiki, to perl, to Linux, etc.
 
-note and popups are templates? But they're not in the templates directory, and in my readings here, templates are supposed to be in the ../templates directory
+note and popups are templates? But they're not in the templates directory, and in my readings here, templates are supposed to be in the ../templates directory. 
+
+> Ikiwiki has an basewiki underlay that provides wiki files not included in
+> your personal wiki sources. The note and popup template pages are
+> installed there, typically in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/templates/`
+> --[[Joey]]
+
+> > And how am I able to use e.g. links? It's not listed in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/templates`.
+> > I intend do (mis)use links for a horizontal navigation. Or may I be better off altering page.tmpl?
+> > --z3ttacht
+
+Is there a list of the TMPL_VAR-Variables that are defined by ikiwiki?
+
+What I'm trying to achieve is to print the URL of every page on the page itself and therefore I would need the corresponding value in the Template.
+
+Am I missing something?  --[[jwalzer]]
+
+> If there isn't a suitable variable (I don't think there is a list at
+> the moment), a [[plugin|plugins/write]] to add one would be about 10
+> lines of perl - you'd just need to define a `pagetemplate` hook. --[[smcv]]
+
+Is there a list of all the available variables somewhere, or do I just grep the source for TMPL_VAR?  And is there a way to refer to a variable inside of a wiki page or does it have to be done from a template?  Thanks. -- [[AdamShand]]
+
+I pulled a list of variables and posted it, its in the history for [[templates]] under my name. [[justint]]
+