Permit search engines to index Github wikis · community · Discussion #4992 (original) (raw)

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@dipree: This is really harmful and disappointing, actively discouraging people investing in Wiki. I can't comprehend why it hasn't been solved. I understand that abuses are a problem, but a single "Allow only to collaborators" options is very limiting, other mitigating options should be possible (see below).

I have 56K+ stars, a growing Wiki https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/wiki and I would like other people than me to work on it, but right now its contents is not indexed in spite of best effort to even link to https://github-wiki-see.page etc. meaning people are having difficulty finding the information they need, and keep asing us the same things, lowering the quality of their software experience and hogging support/dev resources. :(

Can't github implement some alternative options? Suggestions in order of simplicity:

• a white list of users (who are not necessarily code collaborators)
• a system for users to request approval
• a system to let collaborator approve on first edit (~queued patches: I understand it is limiting in the sense that it means non-approved users wouldn't be able to make successive edits to queue, perhaps the UI can warn them beforehand).

If even the first option was added, I would cave in and lock the wiki tomorrow and add likely contributors + infos to request.

I suspect that part of your underlying thought might be that by requiring developers to grant full access to a repository to allow people edit a wiki, it is ensuring we don't add too many people? Can't exceptions be made to well behaving projects?