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## Open the Wiki
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## Open the Wiki
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Begin by connecting to your project using a [supported web browser](/tfs/server/compatibility#supported-browsers) and choose **Wiki**.
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> Choose **Previous navigation** when you see a top-level blue bar. Choose **New navigation** if you see a vertical sidebar or if you enabled the **New Navigation** preview feature. The vertical sidebar, along with other navigational features, is enabled when the **New Navigation** preview feature has been enabled for the signed-in user or the Azure DevOps organization. To learn how to use the web portal effectively, see [Web portal navigation](/azure/devops/project/navigation/index).
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> For on-premises TFS, choose **Previous Navigation** for guidance.
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> Choose **Previous navigation** when you see a top-level blue bar. Choose **New navigation** if you see a vertical sidebar or if you enabled the **New Navigation** preview feature. The vertical sidebar, along with other navigational features, is enabled when the **New Navigation** preview feature has been enabled for the signed-in user or the Azure DevOps organization. To learn how to use the web portal effectively, see [Web portal navigation](/azure/devops/project/navigation/index).
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> For on-premises TFS, choose **Previous Navigation** for guidance.
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# [New navigation](#tab/new-nav)
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> ![Create wiki, provision a Git repo for your wiki or publish existing repo markdown files](/azure/devops/project/wiki/_img/wiki/open-wiki-vert-brn.png)
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If you need to switch your team project, choose the ![ ](/azure/devops/boards/_img/icons/project-icon.png) Azure DevOps logo to [browse all team projects and teams](/azure/devops/project/navigation/work-across-projects).
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If you need to switch your team project, select the ![ ](/azure/devops/boards/_img/icons/project-icon.png) Azure DevOps logo to [browse all team projects and teams](/azure/devops/project/navigation/work-across-projects).
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# [Previous navigation](#tab/previous-nav)
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> ![Open Wiki](/azure/devops/project/wiki/_img/wiki/wiki-connect-browser.png)
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- If you need to switch your team project, choose the ![ ](/azure/devops/boards/_img/icons/project-icon.png) Azure DevOps logo to [browse all team projects and teams](/azure/devops/project/navigation/work-across-projects).
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- If you don't see **Wiki**, your screen size may be reduced. Choose the ![ ](/azure/devops/_shared/_img/ellipses-reduced-screen-size.png) three dots (elipses), then choose **Wiki>Wiki**.
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- If you need to switch your team project, select the ![ ](/azure/devops/boards/_img/icons/project-icon.png) Azure DevOps logo to [browse all team projects and teams](/azure/devops/project/navigation/work-across-projects).
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- If you don't see **Wiki**, your screen size may be reduced. Select the ![ ](/azure/devops/_shared/_img/ellipses-reduced-screen-size.png) three dots (elipses), and then select **Wiki>Wiki**.
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![Open wiki, reduced screen size](/azure/devops/project/wiki/_img/wiki/open-wiki-hub.png)
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# About Wikis and READMes
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# About Wikis and READMEs
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[!INCLUDE [temp](../../_shared/version-ts-tfs-2015-2016.md)]
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To support your team or contributors to your project, use [Markdown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown) to add rich formatting, tables, and images to your team project. You can use Markdown format within a team project Wiki, content you add to a dashboard, within your team project README file, or other repository README file.
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# About READMEs and markdown
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[!INCLUDE [temp](../../_shared/version-ts-tfs-2015-2016.md)]
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To support your team or contributors to your project, use [Markdown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown) to add rich formatting, tables, and images to your team project. You can use Markdown format within content you add to a dashboard, within your team project README file, or other repository README file.
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Markdown makes it easy to format text, include images, and link as needed to additional documentation within your project pages, readme files, dashboards, and pull request comments.
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Markdown makes it easy to format text, include images, and link as needed to additional documentation within your project pages, README files, dashboards, and pull request comments.
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You can provide guidance to your team in these places using Markdown:
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You can provide guidance to your team in the following places using Markdown:
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- [Team project wiki (provisioned wiki)](add-edit-wiki.md)
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- [Project vision page or Welcome pages](project-vision-status.md)
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- [Project vision page or Welcome pages](project-vision-status.md)
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- [Repository README files](../../repos/git/create-a-readme.md)
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- [Add and edit wiki pages](add-edit-wiki.md)
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- [Add and edit wiki pages](add-edit-wiki.md)
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Use README pages to orient contributors to working within your project. Consider adding guidance about the following:
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