I think the company culture will be the determining factor.<p>If you have a number of people trying actively to be as knowledgeable as you are, and documentation is considered critical for everyone, a wiki will be the right approach.<p>If most managers think that people should have strongly separate knowledge domains (&quot;you should be the specialist of XXXX&quot; in our company) and&#x2F;or strongly value face to face communication, a wiki won&#x27;t save you from getting drowned into questions and requests.<p>To take the not so good example, in some companies telling your boss you&#x27;re reading docs related to a library will get you a &quot;why don&#x27;t you go talk to TheKnowledgeablePerson instead, he worked with a version of it 10 years ago, he might remember things, perhaps&quot;