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 An option to have absolute urls in wikilinks instead of relative ones would be useful, 
 for pages included into other pages out of the wiki rendering process (shtml for example)
-since these pages can be included from a subdir.
+since these pages can be included from a subdir. Ditto, links from \[[ inline ..]] or \[[map ..]].
+
+> You can make a wikilink absolute by prefixing it with a /, see 
+> [[ikiwiki/subpage/linkingrules/]]. Pagespecs match absolute by default. But what do
+> you mean "included from a subdir"? If you inline a page, its links shouldn't 
+> change. --Ethan
+
+>> I want the "last pages" in my sidebar. and some links to a few special pages.
+>> \[[inline ]] or \\[[map ]] in the sidebar is a bad idea, (because each update rebuilds
+>> all the wiki), so I use server-side-include instead of the sidebar plugin; 
+>> this reduces the dependencies
+>> my sidebar is generated as http://foo.org/menu/index.html, so all the links generated by 
+>> \[[inline ]] or \[[map ]] are relative to this position. 
+>> Included from http://foo.org/section/sub/blah/index.shtml, the links are broken.
+>>
+>> — NicolasLimare