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I agree, and so it always puzzles me why wikis are so hard to maintain. We use Google Sites at my job, and I've never found them particularly fluid, intuitive or efficient.

A markdown based wiki would be a decent start, but I still overall feel like this is an unsolved problem.

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I think a lot of the problem is whenever you don't easily "see" all the information. In a document you can scan it beginning to end, and get an idea of what needs work. In a wiki you need to click through to other pages to see whether subsidiary pages need work.

Perhaps a wiki that allows pulling in "snippets" from linked pages could help.

MediaWiki has a templates feature.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Templates

I find a wiki that is less markdown based, but more ms word like seems to do well. Fogbugz is one example. You give up some and get some other stuff that just makes it a functional linker of docs

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