I completely agree, maintaining a functional wiki for ever expanding variety of hardware and quickly increasing number of software applications is very difficult, and quite soon it would take almost a full time employed person to moderate and maintain it up to date, thus a forum such as this is a much more manageable platform.
What could be done with less effort would be to have some sticky FAQ type threads at the top, with some general common Q and A, and links to specific threads that address some specific issue. New one pops up - like this one, where there simply wasn't information on the web about the problem, and that contain proven working solutions, and you add a link to the sticky FAQ thread, because searching forums using keywords rarely does the trick...
What could be done with less effort would be to have some sticky FAQ type threads at the top, with some general common Q and A, and links to specific threads that address some specific issue. New one pops up - like this one, where there simply wasn't information on the web about the problem, and that contain proven working solutions, and you add a link to the sticky FAQ thread, because searching forums using keywords rarely does the trick...