I just tried to clone the git repo onto a windows machine to test things out a bit and it turns out i cannot even successfully checkout the code because of those colons. Would a patch changing those to underscores be accepted?

> Well, this is a difficult thing. Ikiwiki has a configuration setting to
> prevent it writing filenames with colons, but for backwards compatability
> that is not enabled by default. Also nothing would stop people from
> making commits that added filenames with colons even if it were disabled
> in ikiwiki. I don't know that trying to work around obscure limitations
> in OSs that I've never heard of ikiwiki being used on is worth the bother
> TBH, but have not really made up my mind. --[[Joey]]