Building communities

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

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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.

Managing disruptive comments

You can hide, edit, or delete comments on issues, pull requests, and commits.

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Table of content for Wikis

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Editing wiki content

You can add images and links to content in your wiki, and use some supported MediaWiki formats.

Blocking a user from your personal account

You can block a user to deny them access to your activity and repositories, and to prevent them from sending you notifications.

Blocking a user from your organization

Organization owners can block a user to remove the user's ability to collaborate in the organization's repositories.

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Building communities

Guides

Setting guidelines for repository contributors

Adding a code of conduct to your project

Managing disruptive comments

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Table of content for Wikis

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Setting up your project for healthy contributions

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