The Problem With Wikis

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Is the same problem you will have with any other data storage.

You lack a librarian.

My company is 12 years old. We have a fileserver where we store documents. Those documents get old. Then people move them into a directory called 'old stuff'. Or they divide up the filespace with departmental folders. Then those get full. Sound familiar? After a while a zillion documents exist in a zillion places and nobody knows which one is current and correct (if any are).

So we got a wiki for internal use. Policies and procedures and training documentation and videos and all sorts of stuff is stored there. So now we have a wiki and a big filesystem.

Sometimes I want to assign someone the job of cleaning all that up and sometimes I have and progress was made. But making it a fulltime job - well that would be just overhead right now. So we struggle on, searching and eventually finding what we're looking for.

Surely there is a better way. Some sort of brilliant AI that can file and index and archive things?

Someone in the MIT lab must have already figured this out. I hope?

Curt runs a resource management software company (although not always all that well)

Curt Finch

Curt Finch has more than two decades of software development and distributed workforce management experience. In 1997, Curt created the world's first internet-based timesheet application and the foundation for the current Journyx product offering. Curt has a B.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech. His book, All Your Money, is available on Amazon.