ikiwiki/ tags

While ikiwiki supports hierarchically categorising pages by creating SubPages, that's often not flexible enough, and it can also be useful to tag pages in various non-hierarchical ways.

Since this is a wiki, tagging is just a form of linking. For example, since this page links to features, it can be considered to have something to do with ikiwiki's features. If you want to put pages into a category, the typical wiki way to do so is to create a "CategoryFoo" page and link pages in the category to it. That is just another form of tagging.

Sometimes you may want to tag a page without putting a visible link on it. The tag plugin allows you to do so, like this:

[[tag mytag othertag thirdtag]]

One way to use these tags is to create a blog of pages that have a particular set of tags. Or just look at the BackLinks to a tag page to see all the pages that are tagged with it. Plugins can be written to do anything else with tags that you might desire.

Once you have tags, you can use the pagestats plugin to generate tag clouds.