A recent effort to automate the maintenance of a large wiki, initially believed to be successful, has revealed a persistent problem with dead links and orphan pages. Automated linting, which was expected to resolve these issues weekly, has consistently failed to reduce the number of broken links, highlighting that the real challenge lies in the manual decisions required to curate and repair the wiki content. This underscores that automating the detection of issues is less important than addressing the underlying need for human judgment and ongoing maintenance.
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