rename uuid to guid

3 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/doc/plugins/meta.mdwn b/doc/plugins/meta.mdwn
index fa37a8246..12240422d 100644
--- a/doc/plugins/meta.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/meta.mdwn
@@ -123,16 +123,16 @@ Supported fields:
   contents. In particular, it does not check the values against the set of
   valid values but serves whatever you pass it.
 
-* uuid
+* guid
 
-  Specifies a globally unique ID for a page. This ID will be used,
-  rather than the page url, in RSS and Atom feeds.
+  Specifies a globally unique ID for a page. This guid will be used,
+  rather than the page url, to identify the page in RSS and Atom feeds.
 
-  The uuid can either be a literal uuid (ie,
-  "ec248d04-f347-4eb8-92b6-671b15d36980"), or it can be an alternative URl
+  The guid can either be a uuid (ie,
+  "ec248d04-f347-4eb8-92b6-671b15d36980"), or it can be an alternative URL
   for the page.
 
-  This is mostly useful when a page's feed has moved, to keep the IDs for
+  This is mostly useful when a page's feed has moved, to keep the guids for
   pages unchanged and
   [[avoid_flooding_aggregators|howto_avoid_flooding_aggregators]].
 
diff --git a/doc/tips/howto_avoid_flooding_aggregators.mdwn b/doc/tips/howto_avoid_flooding_aggregators.mdwn
index 0f7906b1e..71077859f 100644
--- a/doc/tips/howto_avoid_flooding_aggregators.mdwn
+++ b/doc/tips/howto_avoid_flooding_aggregators.mdwn
@@ -24,5 +24,5 @@ Where "old_post" is the name of the last post you made to the blog before
 making the change. This will limit the feed to only newer posts, while stil
 displaying the old posts in the blog page.
 
-Alternatively, you can add the [[plugins/meta]] uuid directives to pages,
+Alternatively, you can add the [[plugins/meta]] guid directives to pages,
 to force the old url to be used.
diff --git a/doc/todo/ability_to_force_particular_UUIDs_on_blog_posts.mdwn b/doc/todo/ability_to_force_particular_UUIDs_on_blog_posts.mdwn
index d8f7c99ab..9ee670f84 100644
--- a/doc/todo/ability_to_force_particular_UUIDs_on_blog_posts.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/ability_to_force_particular_UUIDs_on_blog_posts.mdwn
@@ -16,5 +16,9 @@ Perhaps ikiwiki's blogging functionality could be hooked up to the [meta plugin]
 
 > [[merged|done]], thank you!
 > 
+> I chose to use the term guid, since it's both a generic term that fits
+> very well and describes both using a uuid and an url, and also happens
+> to be the term rss uses. ;-)
+> 
 > Of course I'm happy if you can improve the feeds. They do already
 > use some meta information (author, copyright). --[[Joey]]