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The problem with modern wikis is stale data. No one wants to maintain someone else’s data. I won’t be investing into a new wiki until someone solves this problem.


Big issue indeed, and I think it's more generally documentation.

I believe someone needs to be in charge of the documentation and have dedicated time for this. Other issues this person would need to make sure:

- keep a good structure

- avoid duplicated stuff

- avoid orphaned content

This can also be partially addressed by adding a mandatory step to update the documentation when performing tasks that require documentation.

I believe documentation with some stale stuff is be better than no documentation at all though. Imperfection needs to be tolerated.




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