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-Perhaps I'm just too stupid to find the proper way to do this, but how would I add a new page to the wiki without selecting to edit an already installed one and frobbing the URL to direct to the to-be-created page?
+Perhaps I'm just too stupid to find the proper way to do this, but how
+would I add a new page to the wiki without selecting to edit an already
+installed one and frobbing the URL to direct to the to-be-created page?
+--[[ThomasSchwinge]]
+
+Good point. Of course one way is to start with creating a link to the page,
+which also helps prevent orphans. But other wikis based on CGI do have this
+a bit easier, since they can detect an attempt to access a nonexistant page
+and show an edit page. Ikiwiki can't do that (unless its web server is
+configured to do smart things on a 404, like maybe call ikiwiki.cgi which
+could be modified to work as a smart 404 -> edit handler).
+
+Some wikis also provide a UI means for creating a new page. If we can find
+something good, that can be added to ikiwiki's UI. --[[Joey]]
+
+Hmm, maybe just a preprocessor directive that creates a form inside a page,
+like is used for blog posting already would suffice? Then the main page of
+a wiki could have a form for adding new pages, if that directive were
+included there. Won't work for subpages though, unless the directive were
+added to the parent page. However, unconnected subpages are surely an even
+rarer thing to want than unconnected top level pages. --[[Joey]]
+
+Maybe a very simple PHP frontend for serving the
+statically generated pages, that would display a page editing form or
+something like that for non-existent pages, wouldn't be too bad a thing
+and resource hog? Just a thought... --[[Tuomov]]