1 I would love to see more traditional support for comments in ikiwiki. One way would be to structure data on the discussion page in such a way that a "comment" plugin could parse it and yet the discussion page would still be a valid and usable wiki page.
3 For example if the discussion page looked like this:
5 # Subject of First Comment
6 Posted by [Adam Shand](http://adam.shand.net/) at 10:34PM on 14/04/2007
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10 pellentesque ultrices urna.
12 # Subject of the Second Comment
13 Posted by [Foo Bar](http://foobar.net/) at 11:41PM on 14/04/2007
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19 Each header marks the start of a new comment and the line immediately following is the comments meta data (author, email/url, datestamp). Hopefully you could structure it in such a way that the scope
23 * A comment plugin to render the comments in "traditional blog" format .
24 * Possibly even support nesting comments by the header level?
25 * A comment plugin to create a form at the bottom of the page for people to add comments in the appropriate format to the discussion page
26 * Still remain usable and readable by people who work via svn.
27 * When there is ACL support you could mark the discussion page as read only so it could only be updated by the comment plugin (if that's what you wanted)
29 Is this simple enough to be sensible?