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The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern (2022)

175 points · 112 comments · ibobev

  1. a4isms · · focus · HN ↗
    The second paragraph neatly triggered my confirmation bias:

    The initial version of this post opened with “You can use the wiki or a docs folder for your GitHub project, both are valid choices” but as I wrote more, I realised that there is a single reason to use a wiki, and many more reasons not to use the wiki. So many in fact, that I consider using the wiki on GitHub is an anti-pattern.

    A very straightforward example of McCulloch's quote that "Writing is thinking."

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