The article touches upon an important point that applies to all complex (software/computer) and long-lived systems: "Too much outdated and inconsistent document

The article touches upon an important point that applies to all complex (software/computer) and long-lived systems: "Too much outdated and inconsistent documentation (that makes learning the numerous tools needlessly hard.)" The Debian Wiki is a great resource for many topics, but as with all documentation for very long-running projects - at least those that do big, "finished" releases from time to time - it seems tough to strike a balance between completeness and (temporal) relevance. Sure, in some weird edge case scenario, it might be helpful to know how this-and-that behaved or could be worked around in Debian 6 "Squeeze" in 2014, but information like that piling up also makes the article on the this-and-that subject VERY tedious to sift through if you are only interested in what's recent and relevant to Debian 12 "Bookworm" in 2025. Most people contributing to documentation efforts (me included) seem very reluctant to throw out existing content in a wiki article, even though an argument could be made that the presence is sometimes objectively unhelpful for solving today's problems. Maybe it would be worth a shot to fork the wiki (by copying all content and have a debian.wiki.org/6/ prefix for all things Squeeze, a /7/ for Wheey, a /12/ for bookworm, etc.) for each major release and encourage people to edit and extend release-specific pages with appropriate information, so readers and editors would have to "time-travel" through the project (anmd problem/solution) history in a more conscious and hopefully less confusing way, and make it easier for editors to prune information that's not just relevant for release N+1 any more. I'm very open to learning more about anyone's thoughts on how to solve this well: How to keep documentation in "living documents", editable not only by a small group of contributors (like many projects to with mkdocs et al. as a replacement for an actual wiki), but also keep the "historic baggage" both easily discoverable (for when it's relevant and useful, because that does happen), yet not have it stand in the way of all those who will be confused and obstructed by its presence.