Locking the Wiki page

[reaperx7]

In the light of what has occurred from bad actors from Gnome, Debian, and Canonical who's employers remain either quiet or unwilling to address the defacement of the wiki page, see here:

https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/1942269768192737511?t=Hlkpvz9m0hSAOAjcpB85mg&s=19

better care must be taken to place all contributions to any documents or pages under more strict reviews and disallow this nonsense.

[CustardEddy]

Sadly, this is the world in which we live.

Remember kidiwinks: the Berlin Wall was built to stop people leaving the 'Communist Utopia'. 😞 smh

[reaperx7]

I would akin it better to:

This is how you keep wolves in sheeps clothing out of the pasture by checking the sheep as they enter.

[callmetango]

better care must be taken to place all contributions to any documents or pages under more strict reviews and disallow this nonsense

Yes, I understand the wish to protect the wiki from this kind of, well, "things". But on the other hand we are open and, quoting the README.md, welcome "anybody who's interested in bringing X forward". A wiki editable by everyone logged into Github is a corner stone of this philosophy. People which do not necessarily code are using this opportunity to contribute as the page history shows. And updating documentation is valuable to the whole project. In the near future we like to add even more pages like a list of test drivers etc. which should be managed by themselves.

If anything in the wiki is changed in an unfavourable way, there is a history and an easy git revert since it is a repository too.

What I also liked was the immediate response of some people which reverted the defacements in less than 2 hours each after they have been made. So I believe in the strength of the community to heal wiki pages and itself in general.

Documentation which is supposed to be "mission critical" or may do harm if changed in a bad way will be dealt differently through pull requests and reviews. That's for sure.

So my personal opinion is: keep the wiki open.

@dec05eba CC and sorry for deleting your comment back then.

[reaperx7]

True, but at least now we know that there is an effort being made to hurt Xlibre openly by bad actors at those organizations, or possibly the organizations themselves, who mind you, are still tight lipped about this.

[xgui4]

i think this will be better to avoid actually evil stuff from happening