diff --git a/doc/todo/calendar_with___34__create__34___links/incomplete_patch.pl b/doc/todo/calendar_with___34__create__34___links/incomplete_patch.pl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..dc6798831
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/todo/calendar_with___34__create__34___links/incomplete_patch.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/calendar.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/calendar.pm
+index d443198..0436eda 100644
+--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/calendar.pm
++++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/calendar.pm
+@@ -238,7 +238,16 @@ EOF
+ 			else {
+ 				$tag='month-calendar-day-nolink';
+ 			}
+-			$calendar.=qq{\t\t<td class="$tag $downame{$wday}">$day</td>\n};
++			if ($params{newpageformat}) {
++				$calendar.=qq{\t\t<td class="$tag $downame{$wday}">};
++				$calendar.=htmllink($params{page}, $params{destpage},
++					strftime_utf8($params{newpageformat}, 0, 0, 0, $day, $params{month} - 1, $params{year} - 1900),
++					noimageinline => 1,
++					linktext => $day);
++				$calendar.=qq{</td>\n};
++			} else {
++				$calendar.=qq{\t\t<td class="$tag $downame{$wday}">$day</td>\n};
++			}
+ 		}
+ 	}
+ 
+diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/calendar.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/calendar.mdwn
+index cb40f88..7b7fa85 100644
+--- a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/calendar.mdwn
++++ b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/calendar.mdwn
+@@ -56,5 +56,9 @@ An example crontab:
+   and so on. Defaults to 0, which is Sunday.
+ * `months_per_row` - In the year calendar, number of months to place in
+   each row. Defaults to 3.
++* `newpageformat` - In month mode, if no articles match the query, the value of
++  `newpageformat` will be used to strformat the date in question. A good value
++  is `newpageformat="meetings/%Y-%m-%d"`. It might be a good idea to have
++  `\[[!meta date="<TMPL_VAR name>"]]` in the edittemplate of `meetings/*`.
+ 
+ [[!meta robots="noindex, follow"]]