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Building communities documentation

Learn best practices for moderating and setting up collaborative, safe, and effective communities using GitHub's community-tested tools.

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Set up your project for contributions

About community management and moderation

GitHub offers tools that help repository maintainers establish and enforce standards of behavior in their communities on GitHub.
Set up your project for contributions

About community profiles for public repositories

Repository maintainers can review their public repository's community profile to learn how they can help grow their community and support contributors. Contributors can view a public repository's community profile to see if they want to contribute to the project.
Create issue and pull request templates

About issue and pull request templates

With issue and pull request templates, you can customize and standardize the information you'd like contributors to include when they open issues and pull requests in your repository.
Document your project with wikis

About wikis

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

Accessing a project's community profile

View a public repository's community profile to check on a project's health and decide if you want to contribute.
Set up your project for contributions

Adding a code of conduct to your project

Adopt a code of conduct to define community standards, signal a welcoming and inclusive project, and outline procedures for handling abuse.
Set up your project for contributions

Adding a license to a repository

You can include an open source license in your repository to make it easier for other people to contribute.
Document your project with wikis

Adding or editing wiki pages

You can add and edit wiki pages directly on GitHub or locally using the command line.
Set up your project for contributions

Adding support resources to your project

You can create a SUPPORT file to let people know about ways to get help with your project.
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