diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 1360a615..12cff929 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Ignore Markdown files for language statistics
-*.md linguist-documentation=true
-*.html linguist-documentation=true
+*.html linguist-detectable=false
+docs/md_v2/* linguist-documentation
 
 # Force Python files to be detected
 *.py linguist-language=Python