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The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern (2022)

175 points · 112 comments · ibobev

  1. hn1rig3rak · · focus · HN ↗
    Biggest thing for me is wiki edits skip code review, so docs rot silently while a /docs PR at least shows up in the diff next to the change.
    1. freedomben · · focus · HN ↗
      Indeed, and also now with agents everywhere the docs can be updated and checked more regularly. If it's in the wiki, you can clone it locally and put an AGENTS.md line informing of where the docs are, but it's still a separate repo to deal with. Credit where due, it was a revolution (even a godsend) in it's time, but at this point I agree a /docs is better.
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