wiki.dlang.org: How about replacing MediaWiki with a Git repo?

Mindy Batek (0xEAB) desisma at heidel.beer
Tue Aug 4 11:17:29 UTC 2026


On Tuesday, 4 August 2026 at 10:57:12 UTC, Anton Pastukhov wrote:
> Github (and Gitlab) wikis are just a bunch of Markdown files. 
> They can be edited in a web editor, if you have a GH account. 
> That will make a commit under the hood, but the editor won't 
> necessarily sees it.

There’s a reason I suggested using “a static site generator and 
GitHub pages”.

The built-in wiki feature of GitHub is basically a sinkhole for 
your content. It’s also not so great navigation-wise and quite 
crude in terms of access control.


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