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 ## DESCRIPTION
 
 IkiWiki::Plugin::pod is an IkiWiki plugin enabling ikiwiki to
-process pages written in POD (Plain Old Documentation) format.
+process pages written in POD ([Plain Old Documentation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_Old_Documentation)) format.
 This will treat files with a `.pod` or `.pm` extension as files
 which contain POD markup.