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Thoughts on a very semantic wiki

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Preamble 101wiki  started as a boring  mediawiki  installation to document software systems in the  chrestomathy   ‘101’ ;  semantic wiki  extensions were quickly adopted; eventually  our team  developed a full blown proprietary semantic wiki sort of from scratch. Now we also rehosted it and provided it with new looks. (BTW, the 101companies brand name is now all gone. It's now just '101' really.) https://101wiki.softlang.org/ The biggest mistake we ( me ! ) made in said project ‘101’ is that we had only very loose specs for system implementation and system documentation; we had no proper process for checking and accepting contributions either. Thus, the 101wiki content was always a big mess and it still is. This problem is so serious that we switched to discouraging contributions a few years ago and rather deal with what we have and add content only when absolutely necessary. However, we depend on the 101wiki content for  teaching ; we also use it as a  linked d