One of the signature Wiki features is that people edit pages over the
web, often anyone and without restrictions (as the original Wiki
was/is). It’s said that this is a defining trait of Wikis, and that
without it what you have isn’t really a wiki.

DWiki has no from-web editing of pages. There are several reasons why.

Interface power

A web browser’s form input text boxes are a totally crappy editing
environment compared to what I have on a Unix system. Yeah, sure, I
could require Javascript and load a huge editing library and maybe get
somewhere, but a) I browse with Javascript off and b) am I going to
get half as good as GNU Emacs or vi or sam? (I don’t think so.)

So I want the primary way of editing DWiki pages to be from Unix,
through the filesystem, with real editors. (And it is.)

Global edit doesn’t make sense for us

The principles of global edit permissions leading to the world
help write your pages simply don’t make sense for us. DWiki‘s goal is
to let us easily document how our Unix systems work. We’re the only
people who can write most of that documentation; outsiders can at best
add side commentary.

This would be different if we were interested in running a Wiki on
system administration best practices or the like. But we’re not