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Going further, having someone - a librarian role - review entries that are > X months/years old seems useful. So useful that I bet it's probably something peop
by mgkimsal 4y ago
Going further, having someone - a librarian role - review entries that are > X months/years old seems useful. So useful that I bet it's probably something people who are 'librarians' in a tech/doc sense probably do. I've just not been in orgs large enough to have people dedicated to that role. And... on day 1, it doesn't seem necessary. I was at a small startup in their year 5, and was initially impressed with all their internal docs, until about a month in I realized huge portions were vastly out of date, sometimes even just a few months after having been written. They were growing so fast "there's no time to keep it up to date!" but I was also often told "just go find X in the docs", yet... if I followed that info, it was wrong. So I had to find the docs and about 80% of the time, schedule a meeting with the author to confirm the docs were, indeed, still "correct". Moderate waste of time, but... "there's no time to keep it updated".