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+ikiwiki could support grabbing the /topic from an IRC channel and putting the
+result in a page.  See <http://wiki.debian.org/TopicDebianDevel> for an
+example.  Like [[plugins/aggregate]], the page and its updates should not go
+in version control. --[[JoshTriplett]]