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 ikiwiki works with anchors in various situations.
 
+You can insert anchors directly in the body of a page and it will be used on the resulting HTML, for example:
+
+    <a name="anchor"></a>
+
+... will make the link [[anchor#anchor]] work..
+
+<a name="anchor"></a>
+
 This page accumulates links to the concept of anchors.