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@@ -43,6 +43,12 @@ page will provide a link that can be used to create the template. The template
is a regular wiki page, located in the `templates/` subdirectory inside
the source directory of the wiki.
+(Alternatively, templates can be stored in a directory outside the wiki,
+as files with the extension ".tmpl".
+By default, these are searched for in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`;
+the `templatedir` setting can be used to make another directory be searched
+first.)
+
The template uses the syntax used by the [[!cpan HTML::Template]] perl
module, which allows for some fairly complex things to be done. Consult its
documentation for the full syntax, but all you really need to know are a