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If you're upset about these things, the one thing not to do is to empower them by yes-anding the people involved as they debase the meaning of words, in the way the author of this article does:

> I’ve tried it on one of my pet projects and it produced an entire wiki full of dev docs

Did it? No, it didn't. "Wiki" is not a synonym for "project documentation". (You could set up a wiki to manage the documentation for your project. But that's not what any of these things are about.)

These aren't wikis.



You're right. I wrapped "wiki" in quotation marks in the post. Thank you for reminding me. I also added a callout.




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