Using wikis to manage software projects

The HN heading is misleading, The article is totally NOT about using a wiki to manage a software project, only documenting a project. It's not quite the same thing.

At my previous employer, we used a Mediawiki instance for approximately everything in projects: documentation, design sketches, work packages, internal tool FAQs and Howtos, project meeting minutes. Bug tracking, however, happened in Bugzilla. We had a sophisticated naming convention for different types of pages.

In retrospect, I wouldn't track work packages and progress in a Wiki any more (instead use something that can actually add up the "time spent" column...), but the rest was fun to work with.

I don't know if I agree.

The old generation of online project management software (see: dotproject) was awful, had no UX design, and probably was less efficient than a wiki. However, new programs like basecamp and thymer are much easier to use and add a lot to one's productivity. Certainly, it is much faster for me to create a thymer account than it is for me to use a tool that isn't meant for project management in the first place.