* If a userdir is configured, links to pages in it can be made without

specifying the path. This allows for easy signing of comments by linking
  to your page in the userdir.

IkiWiki.pm

@@ -319,6 +319,10 @@ sub bestlink ($$) { #{{{
 		}
 	} while $cwd=~s!/?[^/]+$!!;
 
+	if (length $config{userdir} && exists $links{"$config{userdir}/".lc($link)}) {
+		return $links{"$config{userdir}/".lc($link)};
+	}
+
 	#print STDERR "warning: page $page, broken link: $link\n";
 	return "";
 } #}}}

IkiWiki/CGI.pm

@@ -419,6 +419,8 @@ sub cgi_editpage ($$) { #{{{
 					push @page_locs, $dir.$page;
 				}
 			}
+			push @page_locs, "$config{userdir}/$page"
+				if length $config{userdir};
 
 			@page_locs = grep {
 				! exists $pagecase{lc $_} &&

basewiki/subpage/linkingrules.mdwn

@@ -25,3 +25,8 @@ to link to, when there are multiple pages with similar names and the link
 goes to the wrong page by default. For example, linking from
 "FooBar/SubPage" to  "/OtherPage" will link to the "OtherPage" in the root
 of the wiki, even if there is a "FooBar/OtherPage".
+
+Also, if the wiki is configured with a userdir, you can link to pages
+within the userdir without specifying a path to them. This is to allow for
+easy linking to a user's page in the userdir, to sign a comment. These
+links are checked for last of all.

debian/changelog

@@ -20,8 +20,11 @@ ikiwiki (1.37) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Don't put discussion links on discussion pages.
   * Allow disabling of plugins included in goodstuff.
   * Add a textile format plugin contributed by mazirian.
+  * If a userdir is configured, links to pages in it can be made without
+    specifying the path. This allows for easy signing of comments by linking
+    to your page in the userdir.
 
- -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:17:58 -0500
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:26:47 -0500
 
 ikiwiki (1.36) unstable; urgency=low
 

doc/todo/userdir_links.mdwn

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 The userdir should be searched at the end of the search "path" for links,
 so that users can put their pages in the userdir, and still link to them
 easily when signing things, without giving a path.
+
+[[todo/done]]

doc/users.mdwn

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+See [[IkiwikiUsers]] for the list of sites using ikiwiki.
+
+Users of this wiki, feel free to create a subpage of this one and talk
+about yourself on it, within reason. You can link to it to sign your
+comments.