When you first create a new repository, a wiki attached to this project is also created. It is enabled by default and everyone can add new content or modify existing pages. If you want to change this behavior, refer to Chapter 6, Exploring the User and Repository Settings, which shows how to accomplish this.
Documentation is not to be taken lightly. To paraphrase a famous quote: "With great projects comes great documentation."
Although there are many tools that convert markup files, such as markdown to HTML, you may not want to use an external page to host your documentation. Enter GitHub wiki.
From the right-hand side bar, select the wiki tab (the one with the book icon) in order to head over the wiki. Since our wiki has no content yet, there doesn't exist any page. In this case, GitHub prompts you to create the first page:
Go ahead and hit the green button.
Every time you add a new page to the wiki, the...