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== The modern comedy of the NixOS wiki ==

Long time ago (somewhere around 2010-2011) members of the nix community decided to [https://web.archive.org/web/20111006031605/http://nixos.org/wiki/Main_Page set up a wiki]. Everything went well until people lost supposently interest in maintaining the wiki and the overall quality of the wiki began to lower because obsolete information was not pruned anymore.

Long time ago (somewhere around 2010-2011) members of the nix community decided to [~~set up a wiki](~~ https://web.archive.org/web/20111006031605/http://nixos.org/wiki/Main_Page ). Everything went well until people lost supposently interest in maintaining the wiki and the overall quality of the wiki began to lower because obsolete information was not pruned anymore.

On the 14th of november 2015 Rok Garbas gave the infamous talk [https://media.ccc.de/v/nixcon2015-3-MakeNixfriendlierforBeginners#video&t=1365 "Make Nix friendlier for Beginners"] which is for future generations only known as the "Kill the wiki" talk. This rekindled the discussion about the decaying state of the official wiki. An [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/22599 EPIC mailing-list discussion] started 4 days later and some core developers seemed to agree that the nix* manuals are a better place to put documentation, others didn't.

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 == The modern comedy of the NixOS wiki ==
+Long time ago (somewhere around 2010-2011) members of the nix community decided to [https://web.archive.org/web/20111006031605/http://nixos.org/wiki/Main_Page set up a wiki]. Everything went well until people lost supposently interest in maintaining the wiki and the overall quality of the wiki began to lower because obsolete information was not pruned anymore.
-Long time ago (somewhere around 2010-2011) members of the nix community decided to [set up a wiki]( https://web.archive.org/web/20111006031605/http://nixos.org/wiki/Main_Page ). Everything went well until people lost supposently interest in maintaining the wiki and the overall quality of the wiki began to lower because obsolete information was not pruned anymore.
 On the 14th of november 2015 Rok Garbas gave the infamous talk [https://media.ccc.de/v/nixcon2015-3-MakeNixfriendlierforBeginners#video&t=1365 "Make Nix friendlier for Beginners"] which is for future generations only known as the "Kill the wiki" talk. This rekindled the discussion about the decaying state of the official wiki. An [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/22599 EPIC mailing-list discussion] started 4 days later and some core developers seemed to agree that the nix* manuals are a better place to put documentation, others didn't.