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This version of GitHub Enterprise was discontinued on 2023-03-15. No patch releases will be made, even for critical security issues. For better performance, improved security, and new features, upgrade to the latest version of GitHub Enterprise. For help with the upgrade, contact GitHub Enterprise support.

About wikis

You can host documentation for your repository in a wiki, so that others can use and contribute to your project.

Wikis are available in public repositories with GitHub Free and GitHub Free for organizations, and in public and private repositories with GitHub Pro, GitHub Team, GitHub Enterprise Cloud and GitHub Enterprise Server.

Every repository on your GitHub Enterprise Server instance comes equipped with a section for hosting documentation, called a wiki. You can use your repository's wiki to share long-form content about your project, such as how to use it, how you designed it, or its core principles. A README file quickly tells what your project can do, while you can use a wiki to provide additional documentation. For more information, see "About READMEs."

With wikis, you can write content just like everywhere else on GitHub Enterprise Server. For more information, see "Getting started with writing and formatting on GitHub." We use our open-source Markup library to convert different formats into HTML, so you can choose to write in Markdown or any other supported format.

If you create a wiki in a public repository, the wiki is available to anyone with access to your GitHub Enterprise Server instance. If you create a wiki in a private or internal repository, only people with access to the repository can access the wiki. For more information, see "Setting repository visibility."

You can edit wikis directly on GitHub Enterprise Server, or you can edit wiki files locally. By default, only people with write access to your repository can make changes to wikis, although you can allow everyone on your GitHub Enterprise Server instance to contribute to a wiki in a public repository. For more information, see "Changing access permissions for wikis."

Note: Search engines will not index the contents of wikis. To have your content indexed by search engines, you can use GitHub Pages in a public repository.

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