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* Healthy contributions

* Management & moderation

* Community profiles

* Access community profiles

* Add a code of conduct

* Contributor guidelines

* Add a license to a repo

* Add support resources

* Community health file

* Encourage contributions

* Issue & PR templates

* About templates

* Configure

* Syntax for issue forms

* Syntax for GitHub's form schema

* Create a PR template

* Common validation errors when creating issue forms

* Moderation

* Manage comments

* Locking conversations

* Archive pull requests

* Limit interactions in repo

* Limit interactions in account

* Limit interactions in org

* Track comment changes

* Manage abuse in your org

* Manage reported content

* Maintaining safety

* Block from your account

* View blocked users in account

* Unblock from your account

* Block from your org

* View blocked users in org

* Unblock from your org

* Reporting abuse or spam

* Using wikis

* About wikis

* Manage wiki pages

* Create footer or sidebar

* Editing wiki content

* View a history of changes

* Change access permissions

* Disabling wikis

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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About community management and moderation
GitHub offers tools that help repository maintainers establish and enforce standards of behavior in their communities on GitHub.

Setting guidelines for repository contributors
You can create guidelines to communicate how people should contribute to your project.

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.

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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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