ikiwiki/doc/users/ivan_shmakov.mdwn

… To put it short: an Ikiwiki newbie.

[Emacs]: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
[Lynx]: http://lynx.isc.org/

## Wikis

Currently, I run a couple of Ikiwiki instances.  Namely:

* <http://lhc.am-1.org/lhc/>
  &mdash; to hold random stuff written by me, my colleagues,
  students, etc.

* <http://rsdesne.am-1.org/rsdesne-2010/>
  &mdash; for some of the materials related to the
  &ldquo;Remote Sensing in Education, Science and National
  Economy&rdquo; (2010-03-29 &hellip; 2010-04-10, Altai State
  University) program I've recently participated in as
  an instructor.

## Preferences

I prefer to use [Lynx][] along with [Emacs][] (via
`emacsclient`) to work with the wikis.  (Note the &ldquo;Local
variables&rdquo; section below.)

The things I dislike in the wiki engines are:

* the use of home-brew specialized version control systems
  &mdash; while there're a lot of much more developed general
  purpose ones;

* oversimplified syntax
  &mdash; which (to some extent) precludes more sophisticated
  forms of automated processing; in particular, this forces one
  to reformat the material, once complete, to, say, prepare a
  book, or an article, or slides.

Out of all the wiki engines I'm familiar with, only Ikiwiki is
free of the first of these.  I hope that it will support more
elaborate syntaxes eventually.

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