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by rakoo 1932 days ago
Links aren't used for searching, they're used for expanding knowledge on a topic you're already investigating. A personal example: I had to update our metrics infrastructure so I read the existing documentation to understand the way it is done today, and there was a link to our metrics naming spec. I wasn't going to need it but it was still interesting to understand what the conventions are and potentially updating them.

We're using the Atlassian wiki, for which I find search to be very bad so we kind of _have_ to work with links.