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This sounds really interesting. Do you mind if I ask how it is organized? One of the problems I have with our wiki is that some of this information exists, but I have no way to find it because the search feature sucks, and every person writing something has a different way of organizing/thinking about it.

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I'm not 3dfan, but it sounds like their methodology avoids being too organized to lower the barrier to writing these things. The cool thing about simple text files is that you can get superb search with grep and similar tools. The git repo also seems more approachable than having to use a website interface.

It is simply evolving.

For example when the graphics person wants to save something for the first time, they might make a new file graphics.txt and put in the information they want to keep there.

If they then continue to just grow that one file, all is fine. If they feel the need to have multiple files, I advice them to make a subfolder graphics/ and have their files there.

Search is simply done via grep.

So to see if someone wrote something about logos, we typically do:

    grep -ir --color logo *

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