GitHub wiki

[radarhere]

GitHub provides a "wiki" feature. python-pillow has made minimal use of this. There are GSOC ideas from 2014 (edit: archived here for posterity), and that's about it.

Until 4 days ago that is, when @artemkaw added a banner to the home page. I was surprised to discover this. The user no longer has a GitHub profile, so I can't open a dialog with them about that.

I'm starting this discussion not to talk about the banner itself, but rather the fact that an unknown user silently made a change. To me, it seems like we are at risk of vandalism. Although perhaps this is exactly the point of the "wiki" feature, that it is a space for open documentation.

So I thought I would ask - are we comfortable with the fact that anyone can come along and make a change like that?

Alternatively, we could restrict editing of the wiki to collaborators only, or disable it completely since we house our documentation at https://pillow.readthedocs.io/ instead.

[hugovk]

I'd be fine turning the wiki off, it's clearly not being used, and one less tab at the top. Wikis can be really useful but I normally turn then off for GitHub projects.

We should preserve the GSOC info somewhere, an issue would be fine, even this one. I doubt we need the edit history. (Interesting to see GitHub wikis are Git repos too!)

[radarhere]

I've uploaded a copy of the GSOC info to the original post here.