On Wed Jan 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM GMT, Kunal Mehta wrote:
Agreed 100%, the openness for editing is really what makes wikis shine. It can be hard to accept, with many of us firmly set in Git's pre-approval style PR/MR workflows, to allow anyone with an account, to just change anything, but that empowerment is what makes wikis work and really blossom.
Please note that gitΒ β GitHub or GitLab, and the PR/MR workflows are just one way git is used. I can see the advantages of accessing wiki
content with git, but I also agree with you that wikis need openness of editing (in fact I think that's a core principle of what makes a wiki, a wiki) The two are not incompatible (even if MR/PR-style approvals are). For example anyone can go and edit ikiwiki.info, either on the web or by cloning the git repository and pushing their commits back.
As one of the maintainers of the MediaWiki package in Debian[1] and a wholehearted wiki enthusiast (longtime Wikipedia admin, etc.), I have a lot of thoughts on this that I'll save for later, but I want to cross-link the ongoing discussion at <https://salsa.debian.org/debian/grow-your-ideas/-/issues/2> that goes over a lot of the same topics.
Thank you. -- Please do not CC me for listmail. π±π» Jonathan Dowland β j...@debian.org π https://jmtd.net
