[[!meta title="Jonathan Dowland"]][[!toc levels=2]]

I've been using IkiWiki for [my personal site](https://jmtd.net/)
since 2008, as well as a number of private instances.
[[I joined the IkiWiki maintainers in 2024|contact]].

## contributions

I've worked on a few different issues and bugs over the years (they
are probably linked in "Backlinks", below). I slowly maintain
the [Opinionated Ikiwiki](https://github.com/jmtd/opinionated-ikiwiki/)
[[container|containers]]. I have recently taken on the Debian packaging.
My current focus is working upstream.

## priorities

This is an unorganised and unordered stream-of-thought list of the things
I'm interested in addressing at the moment.

Review all unreviewed [[patches|patch]];
triage all the Debian bugs and make sure upstream issues are forwarded to issues
recorded here;
[[todo/reconsider jquery]];
[[todo/move_doc__47__style.css]] in order to enable dark mode on
<https://ikiwiki.info>;
an approach for [[todo/mastodon comments]];
maintain the project’s stability and backwards compatibility for existing users;
make ikiwiki more attractive to people looking for SSGs;
more prominent / support bits and pieces from IndieWeb;
shrink the delta between ikiwiki and the opinionated-ikiwiki container:
make setuid  wrappers optional.

## historic

I gave a talk at the [UK UNIX User's Group](http://www.ukuug.org/) annual
[Linux conference](http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2008/) in 2008 about
organising system administrator documentation. Roughly a third of this talk
was discussing IkiWiki in some technical detail and suggesting it as a good
piece of software for this task.

 * slides at <http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/jon.dowland/unix/docs/>.

