[scottmac]

I worked on the wiki at a large company, we had several problems but came up with a few changes.

- A wiki reaper that would reap docs that hadn't been updated in more than 1 year. We'd give people 1 month to action.

- In search, older pages were weighted lower than newer pages.

- Pages had "team" owners rather than individuals.

- Teams would get a monthly digest of their top viewed pages and lowest viewed pages to encourage updates.

- Star rating for pages 1 through 5, would feed into above digest.

Wikis grow organically but need active curating.

[disgruntledphd2]

That reaper was the bane of my existence. I would save wiki links and they would disappear without me realising it in time.

If you are a distributed company, even outdated and wrong docs are more useful than nothing at all.

[scottmac]

It stopped deleting and started archiving back in 2016/2017 when Dex was merged with the Wiki.

[disgruntledphd2]

I know, it was a glorious day.