How to get access to contribute to wiki?

[wolfdaemon]

Purpose

Changing Debian 12 installation dependency requirements to reflect current package names.

Actions attempted

1. Cloning/Pulling Wiki repository's master branch

Firstly, pulled from the master on the wiki repository (https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu.wiki.git). When attempting to push to master following this guide, it asked for my GitHub username and token. After this, git gave the following output:

remote: Permission to quickemu-project/quickemu.wiki.git denied to wolfdaemon.
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu.wiki.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403

2. Cloning the main repository as directed in Helpful Resources "Contributing" article

After this, I read the Helpful Resources Contributing article, and attempted to create a fork of the repository on the README.md (which, I as I understand, is part of the project itself and not the actual wiki).

3. Creating this discussion post for help

Lastly, made this post.
Pardon my ignorance, I am still fairly new to contributing to FOSS/OSS projects.

[kobamkode]

I found a repo about quickemu's wiki: https://github.com/philclifford/quickemu-docs. Maybe you could do pull request there.

[philclifford]

That repo is a submodule for building the README and the contents of docs/ .
PRs and issues very welcome there, but have no connection with the wiki, which has its own repo.

[kobamkode]

my bad.. i thought that's for the wiki, thx for making clear.

[philclifford]

Wikis are by default only writable to those with write access to the relevant repository. If you see exit/create buttons on a repo's wiki it means you have such write access or the wiki has been made writable by everyone. The guide you followed looks good, but you need to read and follow it carefully. It looks from the above as though you tried to push directly to the quickemu.wiki master - and that was refused because you have no privileges. You should

1. Create a fork of the main project in github under your own namespace.
2. Navigate to the wiki page in your own fork and create a dummy page (you may have to enable a wiki in the settings of your fork!)
3. clone your wiki from your fork (linked at the bottom of your wiki on your fork)
4. in your local clone add the main project wiki as a remote: git remote add upstream https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu.wiki.git
5. fetch the wiki from upstream
6. make your changes and commit locally
7. push to your fork wiki (origin)
8. create an issue in the upstream project detailing your namespace and the changes

This will enable contributors to review and merge your changes upstream.

Contributions to a main project typically follow a more simple pattern of

1. Create a fork (if you don't already have one)
2. Clone the fork (if you use gh clone it will automatically set upstream rather than you needing to add upstream as a remote to your local clone) to your workstation
3. Create an issue upstream for the feature or bug
4. Create a branch in your working copy for your contribution
5. Push your changes up to your fork (git will probably then give you a URL to go create a PR online)
6. Create a PR (and link it to your issue) against the upstream (which may be against main or may need to be against a development branch - the project may have particular guidance for this)