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Re:Wiki Bankruptcy by lkbm on Monday August 10, 2020 @11:36AM (#24110411)
We've used Guru[0] for some of our internal documentation, which will prompt you to re-verify the accuracy of docs on a set schedule. So every six months (configurable per doc), it will prompt the designated person to glance over the doc and say "yup, still good".

I'm undecided as to how well it works, but it seems like it a better solution to the stale data problem than "let's just delete everything and hope we don't ever need it" approach.

[0] getguru.com

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Re:Wiki Bankruptcy by elmolino89 on Monday August 10, 2020 @11:58AM (#24110657)
I am a fan of Markdown based wikis. Have been using GitLab for some time now.

On a separate note: one can script simple link checking/verification of the fetched content. And flag all pages with dead links, or with links where PDF/html/whatever did change from a snapshot taken say every month or so.

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