[Cuis-dev] On the importance of Documentation ! Even tiny one.

[Eric Sessoms]

On Sun, May 18, 2025, at 1:40 PM, Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
> Is it possible to have anonymous edit on the github wiki? 

The default setting is collaborators only, but a wiki can be configured to be editable by anyone with a Github account.

https://docs.github.com/en/communities/documenting-your-project-with-wikis/changing-access-permissions-for-wikis

Before doing that, there is the issue of, well, the internet, and how some folks just love to ruin anything.  I do not know if there is any way to block specific troublemakers, but--should it happen--malicious edits can be reverted.  Each wiki is, itself, a git repository: just add ".wiki.git", as in

https://github.com/DrCuis/Workbench.wiki.git

I can't personally speak to how safe or unsafe a public wiki might be, but I think new contributors are more likely to make an easy change when they can "edit in-place", vs. thinking "oh, I'd love to fix that small error, but I'd have to clone it, make a pull request, write some sort of justification for the fix, and hope somebody cares enough to merge it, ain't nobody got time for that."  (My 2-cents.)

> In the meantime we can add you as member of the organization, I sent 
> you an invitation. You contribute the way that fit your taste: direct 
> edit on the document or pull-requests or issues. Those features were 
> not inactivated on the respective repositories.

Thank you!  I will try to behave responsibly.  :)