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 wombat
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-wombat is a static site generator. It compiles
+wombat is a static site generator that combines the concepts of ordinary pages, blogs and image galleries. It compiles
 html pages from html fragments and markdown files according to a template.
 
 The fragments are assumed to be in 'stage0', results will appear in 'stage2'. Pages need a description header: