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

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Tuesday, 4 August 2026 at 19:29:45 UTC, Mindy Batek (0xEAB) 
wrote:
>> Okay, but we do have to agree that anything that's between 
>> clicking "save" and the contribution becoming world visible 
>> counts as a barrier.
>
> Sure thing.
> But the same applies to anything that comes between seeing the 
> opportunity to contribute and the save button; e.g. Anubis, a 
> wiki.dlang.org account, MediaWiki syntax,

That's fair.

> the quality of spell-checking in my browser, …

Not sure about this one :)

>>> - Go: <https://go.googlesource.com/wiki>
>>
>> Not world editable :(
>
> → <https://github.com/golang/wiki> — take a closer look, the 
> way they handle PRs may be misleading to the eye.

Oh I see, it goes through Gerrit. That's even more fun :)

>> I also found out today that GitHub wikis are not indexed by 
>> search engines, so information added there won't show up in 
>> search results.
>
> Okay, okay, one very last comment: I’m afraid your search 
> engine sucks ;)

Interesting empirical result. I was going off this:

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/4992#discussioncomment-1448177

I think web search crawlers will index a page if some other site 
links to it directly, but it will not then follow links on that 
page, so a wiki won't be indexed unless some other site links to 
all pages.