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<p>Being the victim of absolute hopeless swagger generated documentation before (for example maproulette), it is important to note that it is just a system to semi-automatically generate good-looking documentation, not good documentation.</p>
<p>The later still requires significant effort regardless of the system. Given that</p>
<ul>
<li>the rails port has essentially no code documentation at all</li>
<li>moving the API documentation from the wiki to the rails port would put the onus on the current maintainers (but see above)</li>
<li>and significantly raise the bar for contributing to it</li>
</ul>
<p>I suspect that however well intentioned this is, it basically boils down to not documenting actual current behaviour of the API at all.</p>
<p>The other aspect is that, while a matter of contention among the maintainers and original rails-port devs, you could argue that the API should be specific implementation independent, and as a consequence as a matter of principle the documentation should be independent of any such implementation.</p>
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