wiki needs a blacklist

[chrislusf]

I want to keep the wiki open to any users who found wiki problems.

However, there are some bad users starts to add malicious links to the wiki. I can revoke the changes after reviewing. But sometimes they keep coming back.

For these users, I want to manually put them in a short blacklist.

[airtower-luna]

According to the documentation blocking a user also prevents them from editing wiki pages on your repositories, so maybe you can just do that? I assume someone who spams malicious links is not someone you interact with anyway. 😅

See: https://docs.github.com/en/communities/maintaining-your-safety-on-github/blocking-a-user-from-your-personal-account

[chrislusf]

Unluckily I just moved the repo to an organization.

[airtower-luna]

Fortunately the same applies to organization repositories, there's just a separate documentation page for how it works: https://docs.github.com/en/communities/maintaining-your-safety-on-github/blocking-a-user-from-your-organization

[chrislusf]

Thanks a lot! This does help!

[spenserblack]

What do you think about the reverse? I think it would be cool to have a wiki-only collaborators list. In other words a whitelist instead of a blacklist.

[chrislusf]

this requires adding people to collaborators, which is not many users would want to do to fix some typos. I want to avoid this step.

[cdefgah]

If your repository wiki is being changed by users who post spam/malicious links, you can restrict the access to your wiki only to collaborators.

Check this official doc: https://docs.github.com/en/communities/documenting-your-project-with-wikis/changing-access-permissions-for-wikis

[chrislusf]

this requires adding people to collaborators, which is not many users would want to do to fix some typos. I want to avoid this step.

[jfullstackdev]

yup that's right you have two options either block users that are doing that or restrict it to collaborators only

[chrislusf]

Right. That is my point: wiki needs a blacklist.