Re:Ask HN: What's the best way to organize a company's engin...
by LunarAurora on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @07:27PM
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There are two main problems with wikis : Maintaining and Finding.
I'll start with the second, because it is 2023, and wikis are finally embracing semantic search [0]. This will not only almost solve this problem, it will also alleviate the need for heavy handed content organization in general (categories..)
The first problem is best solved IMO with getting someone responsible for gardening it, as someone put it in this thread. There are new design approaches for smoothing the process [1], but a human gardener is still you best bet.
I'll start with the second, because it is 2023, and wikis are finally embracing semantic search [0]. This will not only almost solve this problem, it will also alleviate the need for heavy handed content organization in general (categories..)
The first problem is best solved IMO with getting someone responsible for gardening it, as someone put it in this thread. There are new design approaches for smoothing the process [1], but a human gardener is still you best bet.
[0] https://slite.com/ask is the first enterprise wiki I've seen integrating this.
[1] A recent exple for code documentation is https://swimm.io/