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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/"
+ nickname="smcv"
+ subject="comment 1"
+ date="2011-02-23T11:14:14Z"
+ content="""
+This isn't possible without out-of-band mechanisms (Javascript or something).
+ikiwiki produces static HTML; template variables are evaluated when the HTML
+is compiled, and admins and non-admins see the exact same file.
+
+(More precisely, URLs containing `/ikiwiki.cgi/` are dynamically-generated
+pages; everything else is static.)
+"""]]