templatedir => "$srcdir/templates",
-.. and then the [[wikitemplates]] are managed like other wiki files; and
+.. and then the [[templates]] are managed like other wiki files; and
like other wiki files, a change to them automatically updates dependent
pages.
>>>>>> it'd either be necessary to make them be internal pages
>>>>>> (templates/inlinepage._tmpl) or special-case them in some other way.
>>>>>> --[[smcv]]
+
+ >>>>>>> In my branch, I left in support for the templatedir, and also
+ >>>>>>> /usr/share/ikiwiki/templates. So, users do not have to put their
+ >>>>>>> custom templates in templates/ in the wiki. If they do,
+ >>>>>>> the templates are copied to the destdir like other non-wiki page files
+ >>>>>>> are. The templates are not wiki pages, except those used by a few
+ >>>>>>> things like the [[plugins/template]] plugin.
+ >>>>>>>
+ >>>>>>> That seems acceptable, since users probably don't need to modify
+ >>>>>>> many templates, so the clutter is small. (Especially when
+ >>>>>>> compared to the other clutter the basewiki always puts in destdir.)
+ >>>>>>> This could be revisted later. --[[Joey]]