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I am the maintainer of https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
We invested energy in the Wiki as a way to try reducing the amount of issues/questions piling up, only to realize after some time that GitHub Wikis are not indexed by Google (because of #4992) making information discovery very poor.
While apparently large repositories may be enabled for indexing (my repository would likely fit criteria with about 58k stars, 10k forks), it seems to be never enabled if the wiki is user-editable. It is very disheartening that we cannot haves wikis that are both collectively editable and indexed by search-engines.
My suggestion to alleviate this issue would be to allow projects owners to add/white-list wiki editors.
While I cannot grant main project pushing rights to many people, it is much easier for me to add wiki editing rights to a dozen prominent/active community members. Combined with the fact that prominent repositories are enabled for search indexing, this would largely tame down the issue.
Barring a solution I think GitHub Wiki are unfortunately a dead-end at this point :( There is no point investing energy in a wiki that is so poorly globally indexed. I would personally need consider moving the community Wiki elsewhere.
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Thank you. Hope this will get somewhere.. I have a suspicion Github stopped caring about Wikis, it would be good to eventually know if that's the case.
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I am the maintainer of https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
We invested energy in the Wiki as a way to try reducing the amount of issues/questions piling up, only to realize after some time that GitHub Wikis are not indexed by Google (because of #4992) making information discovery very poor.
While apparently large repositories may be enabled for indexing (my repository would likely fit criteria with about 58k stars, 10k forks), it seems to be never enabled if the wiki is user-editable. It is very disheartening that we cannot haves wikis that are both collectively editable and indexed by search-engines.
My suggestion to alleviate this issue would be to allow projects owners to add/white-list wiki editors.
While I cannot grant main project pushing rights to many people, it is much easier for me to add wiki editing rights to a dozen prominent/active community members. Combined with the fact that prominent repositories are enabled for search indexing, this would largely tame down the issue.
Barring a solution I think GitHub Wiki are unfortunately a dead-end at this point :( There is no point investing energy in a wiki that is so poorly globally indexed. I would personally need consider moving the community Wiki elsewhere.
Thank you for considering this.
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