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Neil Anuskiewicz
11,007 PointsAnyone know of an open source knowledge base management system?
I was looking for one. The documentation will be a combination of developer docs and docs for end users. Thank you.
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Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsI have no idea if it'll help you, but the software that runs wikipedia is actually open source. Check it out here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
Neil Anuskiewicz
11,007 PointsKevin, yes, thank you. I will consider a wiki as a possibility. My concern is in my past experience wikis for documentation projects get used for a few months then people stop keeping them up to date. I'm not sure why this happens but I've seen it happen at software and other tech companies. Now, it might not have anything to do with the medium and could be just that people don't like to write documentation and so don't especially if it involves logging into some other system.
It could be I should go with a wiki though. Do you have any thoughts on whether this would be a good choice for documenting software? That people don't update it aside as I will take that responsibility and I guess I can't control what happens when i eventually move on.