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A wiki is a CMS for collaborative content creation, typically with a flat content structure and heavy cross-referencing. Consider using a more specific tag.

A wiki is a type of content-management system designed to let users build content rapidly, typically with thorough cross-referencing.
Editing is facilitated by text markup and template-based paging.
Wikis are usually intended for collaborative editing, so many applications offer tools such as revision control to enable curation.
Most depend on a browser for user interface.

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Resize image in the wiki of GitHub using Markdown

I'm writing a wiki page on GitHub, and I'm using Markdown. My problem is that I'm putting a large image (this image is in its own repository) and I need resize it. I have tried different solutions, but they do not…
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How to style a JSON block in Github Wiki?

Is there a way to nicely format/style JSON code in Github Wiki (i.e Markdown preferred)? Something like this with few colors (or bold) and correct indentation: http://www.freeformatter.com/json-formatter.html#ad-output
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How can I make a pull request for a wiki page on GitHub?

I saw a wiki page on GitHub that isn't open for editing. Then I forked the project, edited it on "my end" and tried to do a pull request. It turns out, the wiki isn't in the project, and there isn't a way to commit changes to it. Other than…
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How do I create some kind of table of content in GitHub wiki?

If you look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Overflow You'll notice there's a little "Content" section, if you click on one of the links, it will send you to a specific section on the page. How do I do this in GitHub wiki? With Markdown or…
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How do I clone a GitHub wiki?

How do I clone my GitHub repository's wiki? I know it's saved as a separate Git repository, but I can't remember the path. I've tried ...reponame/wiki.git and ...reponame.git/wiki, but neither are correct.
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ToC or Sidebar in GitHub Wiki

How do I create a ToC or a sidebar menu in a GitHub Wiki? I saw some mentions of it and gollum the backend seems to support it, but how do I do it in a current GitHub project? It should best be based on the headers I have in the page…
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GitHub wiki directories

Does the wiki that installs with a GitHub repo support directories? Our wiki is cluttered with pages, and we are looking for a way to organize them better. We tried pulling the repo, creating local directories, and moving things around, but when…
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Code block in numbered list (Wiki syntax)

In MediaWiki (wikipedia's) wiki syntax, is there a way to have a numbered list with a code block in the middle? For example: # Number 1 # Number 2 Indented section that will become a code block # Number 3 # Number 4 What happens in MediaWiki is…
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Embedding images inside a GitHub wiki (gollum) repository?

The Github wikis are backed by a separate git repository then the main project repository. This post by the Github team makes it sound like you should be able to link to images stored in the wiki repository inside the wiki markup. Images and…
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Effortless export from github wiki (?)

I am collecting quite a lot of material in a GitHub wiki. I really like to use the wiki to cooperate with other people and IMHO the platform is really nice, I like it! So, I would like to keep using the GH wiki to collect stuff, edit, save,etc but I…
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How to upload an attachment to GitHub wiki?

I know how to reference it from wikis but where in GitHub site do I upload the attachment? Thanks a lot!
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Has anyone implemented a wiki in NodeJS?

I'm looking for a pure javascript, open-sourced, wiki implementation, preferably one using NodeJS. Where might I find it?
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How to integrate a GitHub wiki into the main project

I want keep all my source code and documentation in one single Git repository. I already have the GitHub pages integrated into my main project and now I want to do the same with the GitHub wiki. I know that GitHub wikis are plain Git repositories.…
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Collapsible header in Markdown to html

Our internal git-lab wiki works with Markdown. I made several summaries of articles and want to post them in our wiki, in such a way that if I click on the header, it should unfold and the text should become visible, basically like in this…
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Any better way to create MediaWiki numbered lists?

When using MediaWiki's markup language, the only thing that I hate is creating numbered lists. The only way I know to create a list is to do something like this: #Item1 #Item2 However, if I want to add spaces or some other text between those lines,…
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