from years of doing wiki documentation, document rot is fine, if it rots, so be it. Most of the time I write the docs for me but with a "getting started" frame

from years of doing wiki documentation, document rot is fine, if it rots, so be it. Most of the time I write the docs for me but with a "getting started" frame of mind. On our wiki there are a whole bunch of actively maintained pages now that were initially seeded by myself or other devs, and there's a bunch of dead pages which are occasionally very useful , some of it is horribly dead. But the active pages are great, they save everyone time. Main thing is to not invest vast amounts of time to the docs, don't spend time drawing diagrams unless its a photo of a quick hand drawing, and just put in more effort as things prove useful