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A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known in advance to what you need to know.

— Ward Cunningham A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003)

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Putting a new feature into a program is important, but refactoring so new features can be added in the future is equally important.

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