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title: Building communities documentation
shortTitle: Building communities
intro: >-
Learn best practices for moderating and setting up collaborative, safe, and
effective communities using GitHub’s community-tested tools.
redirect_from:
- /categories/building-a-strong-community
- /github/building-a-strong-community
changelog:
label: wikis
featuredLinks:
startHere:
- >-
/communities/setting-up-your-project-for-healthy-contributions/setting-guidelines-for-repository-contributors
- >-
/communities/setting-up-your-project-for-healthy-contributions/adding-a-code-of-conduct-to-your-project
- >-
/communities/moderating-comments-and-conversations/managing-disruptive-comments
guideCards:
- /communities/documenting-your-project-with-wikis/editing-wiki-content
- >-
/communities/maintaining-your-safety-on-github/blocking-a-user-from-your-personal-account
- >-
/communities/maintaining-your-safety-on-github/blocking-a-user-from-your-organization
popular:
- >-
/communities/using-templates-to-encourage-useful-issues-and-pull-requests/creating-a-pull-request-template-for-your-repository
- /communities/maintaining-your-safety-on-github/reporting-abuse-or-spam
- >-
/communities/setting-up-your-project-for-healthy-contributions/adding-a-license-to-a-repository
- >-
/communities/using-templates-to-encourage-useful-issues-and-pull-requests/configuring-issue-templates-for-your-repository
layout: product-landing
versions:
fpt: '*'
ghes: '*'
ghec: '*'
topics:
- Community
children:
- /setting-up-your-project-for-healthy-contributions
- /using-templates-to-encourage-useful-issues-and-pull-requests
- /moderating-comments-and-conversations
- /maintaining-your-safety-on-github
- /documenting-your-project-with-wikis