Wiki support?

[david-saracini]

Does the application support view a repos wiki pages? If not, that would be a great feature. I would totally buy the app just to be able to get to the wiki pages.

[dennisreimann]

I'll see what I can do :)

[david-saracini]

That would be great... thanks for the response.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Reimann [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 9:05 AM
To: David Saracini
Subject: Re: [ioctocat] Wiki support? (#137)

I'll see what I can do :)

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[dennisreimann]

Right now there is no way to access the wikis via the API, but I've sent an email asking for that to GitHub. I'll keep you posted.

[david-saracini]

Thanks! I really appreciate you trying to do this.

[macfreek]

I have not looked into the API, but a wiki for e.g. https://github.com/dennisreimann/ioctocat.git can be accessed via git as https://github.com/dennisreimann/ioctocat.wiki.git. Would it perhaps be possible to access the issues and updates of a wiki by the regular API but replacing the repository name with "repository.wiki"?

[dennisreimann]

As far as I know GitHub is currently working on an API for wikis. That's what we'll have to wait for.

[macfreek]

:(. You seem to be right. curl -i "https://api.github.com/repos/dennisreimann/ioctocat.wiki/commits gives an error. I should have tried before suggesting this.

[Gompje]

When I recently looked up some wiki engines, I came across Gollum. which is a

git powered wiki with a sweet API

This guy says they use Gollum at Github for the wiki's. I have a few of them running and they are very similar to the Github wiki ones; I wanted to move them to the Github wiki so other collaborators don't need to run a gollum server on their computers, to save a private repo and to avoid fragmentation; but if I have to use github mobile I will leave it as it is for the time being.

Anyway: I have no time to investigate this further but since they state "sweet API" and the code is opensource maybe you can find anything?

[dennisreimann]

Since this issue is three years old by now I can take a look, nevertheless in to official API docs there is nothing stated about an API for the repo wikis on GitHub.

[macfreek]

in [the] official API docs there is nothing stated about an API for the repo wikis on GitHub.

You can easily access the wiki using git. For example, to access https://github.com/dennisreimann/ioctocat/wiki/Test-page, simply git clone https://github.com/dennisreimann/ioctocat.wiki.git, and starting editing the file Test-page.md. To upload, just do git add, git commit, and git push.

See https://help.github.com/articles/adding-and-editing-wiki-pages-locally/ for further information.

[Edit: I suspect that this means you can also edit the wiki using the GitHub API, just like you can edit the source itself. However, I have not tested that]

[r-colvin]

As mentioned in my issue #463 editing wikis on the go would be invaluable to me.

So adding my +1 to this issue (even though it's 5 years old!)

Since it is 5 years old, has there been an update? Or a workaround?