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Some inconsistences around the toplevel [[index]] page:

* [[ikiwiki]] is a separate page; links to [[ikiwiki]] should better go to
  the index though.

  > At least for this wiki, I turned out to have a use for [[ikiwiki]]
  > pointing to a different page, though the general point might still
  > stand.

* The toplevel [[ikiwiki/Discussion]] page has some weird parentlinks
  behavior. This could be special cased around with the following patch.
  However, I'm unsure if I like the idea of more special cases around this.
  It would be better to find a way to make the toplevel index page not be a
  special case at all.

Here is a patch:

	--- IkiWiki/Render.pm   (revision 1187)
	+++ IkiWiki/Render.pm   (working copy)
	@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
	        my $path="";
	        my $skip=1;
	        return if $page eq 'index'; # toplevel
	+       $path=".." if $page=~s/^index\///;
	        foreach my $dir (reverse split("/", $page)) {
	                if (! $skip) {
	                        $path.="../";

   > Came up with a better patch for this, [[done]] --[[Joey]]

---

> I would like to suggest another tack, namely a bigger, better special case. 
> The basic idea is that all indices of the form foo/bar/index get the wiki path foo/bar.
> You could do this today using [[todo/index.html_allowed]], except that the toplevel 
> page "index" becomes "", which causes all sorts of chaos. The discussion page would 
> become /discussion, and the weird parentlinks behavior would go away. --Ethan