Thread:Project:Support desk/How to ensure the consistency of informations ?/reply (3)

Oh, I think I understand better now.

How to manage documentation becoming out of sync varries a lot between different projects. There is no one good answer.

On this wiki, we use little markers to denote what version docs were written for. For example:

For an example of these templates in use, see Manual:Categorylinks_table.

For certain things, we also just use separate pages, or subpages. For example MediaWiki_1.19 vs MediaWiki_1.20. We also use categories to organize things, such as Category:MediaWiki_configuration_settings_1.5.0.

Other people use entire namespaces (and in extreme cases entire wikis) for documenting different versions of their product. I believe blenderwiki used to do that. Now they seem to use subpages in a namespace-esque way ( http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual vs http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.4/Manual However, that has the disadvantage of requiring a lot of rewriting (templates can mitagate that somewhat).