You decide how people identify themselves when they contribute. There are three possibilities, covered in full on Identity and accounts; this guide is about turning them on and choosing between them for your wiki.
Sign in with GitHub edit
The quickest option when your contributors already use GitHub. They click Sign in with GitHub, approve once, and from then on their edits carry their GitHub name and avatar. It’s a single setting to enable.
Sign in with a Wikigit account edit
For everyone who doesn’t use GitHub. A Wikigit account is password-free: you enter an email, a one-time code arrives, you type it back, and you’re in. It runs through a small sign-in service your wiki connects to — you can point at the one wikigit.org runs and be done, or host your own if you’d rather. Either way, the email stays with that service and never lands on a page or in the history.
Anonymous editing edit
Your wiki can also let people edit without signing in at all, the way Wikipedia does. Anonymous edits are credited to a short nickname. Leave it on for the widest front door and the occasional drive-by fix, or turn it off to require a name on every edit. A common middle ground is to allow anonymous edits but always hold them for review.
Choosing edit
There’s no single right answer; it depends on who you expect to contribute.
- A technical or open-source community → GitHub is probably enough on its own.
- A general audience → offer the email-based account so nobody is turned away for lacking GitHub.
- A wiki that wants the lowest possible barrier → leave anonymous editing on as well.
Whatever you pick, signing in is what lets a contributor build standing over time, so their edits eventually publish without review.