How to remove Github's Wiki default sidebar

Question

Since a few weeks, Github wikis present a compulsory side bar to the right of wiki pages that take up some space for writing. Example:

I could not find any button nor instructions on the net to remove this sidebar.

Is there a command or instructions to get it removed somewhere?

Answer 1

This isn't a definitive answer, but here are a couple tools that might help.

If you're using Chrome or Firefox, you could use the Stylus add-on. It allows you to restyle any webpage by modifying the CSS. You can write your own user styles, but there's several on userstyles.org for Github. I use Github Wide, which widens the Github interface. That gives me more space for writing.

If that's not enough and you really want to zap the sidebar, a relatively easy way to remove an element from a webpage is to use AdBlock. You can add any element you don't want to see as a custom filter. You might be able to use a combination of that plus your own Stylish user style to tweak the CSS so that the content you want to see fills the now-empty space.

Answer 2

As of right now there is not a way to remove the sidebar. I would suggest you make a note to the developers of this issue and they may act upon it. Until then we will just have to deal with the stick sidebar.