In IkiWiki::preprocess, the last capturing group in the regex used to parse directives in prefix_directives mode is of the form (\s+...)?\]\], which will not be matched if the directive is something without arguments or whitespace, like [[!orphans ]]. As a result, its value is undef instead of being an empty string, causing a warning when it is used in the anonymous sub $handle. A trivial fix is to treat it as "" if it is undef.

patch in the master branch of my git repository, and quoted here. --smcv

diff --git a/IkiWiki.pm b/IkiWiki.pm
index 241a7c0..d2c35a2 100644
--- a/IkiWiki.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki.pm
@@ -1167,7 +1167,8 @@ sub preprocess ($$$;$$) {
                }sx;
        }

-       $content =~ s{$regex}{$handle->($1, $2, $3, $4)}eg;
+       # $4 can be undef if the directive was [[!foo ]]
+       $content =~ s{$regex}{$handle->($1, $2, $3, ($4 or ""))}eg;
        return $content;
 }

cherry-picked --Joey