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Wikis aren't crawled. Suggest GH Pages alternative - #5054

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Why:

#4115

isaacs/github#1683

https://web.archive.org/web/20210403000950/github.com/robots.txt

Wiki users and maintainers are usually unpleasantly surprised that the content they create on their wikis are "invisible" to search engines.

Closes [issue link]

What's being changed:

Note wikis aren't crawled and by what mechanism. Suggest GitHub Pages backed by a public repository as an alternative.

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@nelsonjchen Thanks so much for opening a PR! I'll get this triaged for review ⚡

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That works! Thanks for looking at this.

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