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Re:Encouraging a culture of written communication by specialist on Monday May 11, 2020 @02:08PM (#23145125)
Maybe also add basic metrics. Like number of views, popularity over time, sparklines for edit activity, ...

Maybe even some social features, with a decay rate. So teammates recently tagging things as "helpful!" could nudge me to pay attention.

Any additional signal to help noobs like me while foraging.

Re:Encouraging a culture of written communication by simonw on Monday May 11, 2020 @02:11PM (#23145151)
An idea I had but never really executed on was a mechanism for tagging documentation as "should be reviewed at least once every X months" - for things like setting up developer environments.

That way a team could be alerted if their documentation was due-for-review. One person gets assigned a task to review it. They look through it, update it if necessary, and either way put a "last reviewed by X on date Y" tag on it so people who read it can tell that it's still relevant.

Re:Encouraging a culture of written communication by SamuelAdams on Monday May 11, 2020 @04:18PM (#23146524)
At that rate you're better off buying some software that handles all this for you. Enter Microsoft Sharepoint. Yikes.