Show when documentation was last reviewed, or at least that it might be outdated due to its last edit
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	Aklapper
	Mar 18 2020, 3:03 PM

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Dropping an idea from a long ago team offsite. Might be not feasible and declined.

Technical documentation gets outdated.
If someone realizes, then https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Update can be added.
However, often someone does not realize.
Or does not know about that template.
Or that template does not exist on some wikis: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Update

I appreciated that theguardian.com tells me that "This article is more than 2 years old":

Guardian-article-age-old.png (494×960 px, 62 KB)

To some extent this might also be possible with https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs . Or with a gadget checking the last edit date (which still won't help if it's a minor edit).

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Had this topic again in a conversation today; this won't solve the problem that "Updated yesterday!" could imply a typo fix on outdated content.

I've seen WMF team subpages with "Review Required by" headers (which won't help either if there isn't a process to make sure this review takes place).

Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Nov 27 2021, 3:37 PM

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This might get implemented via WarnNotRecentlyUpdated

I agree that this would be great (not just here, but all of internet; it often matters a lot if what I read is three weeks or seven years old). The most basic thing is just to add/move the timestamp at the bottom of a page to the the top like this (shameless self plug). Finding the last relevant edit would be a lot trickier to do automatically. Maybe ORES can be of use here?

Sebastian_Berlin-WMSE awarded a token.Jun 1 2023, 2:34 PM

Cool gadget, @Sebastian_Berlin-WMSE!

I've used this template as a quick way to add the last edit and editor within a page, although I agree that finding the last relevant edit is trickier.

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