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owner_slack: '#2ndline'
review_by: 2017-06-01
title: Where to find what documentation?
section: Manual
layout: manual_layout
parent: "/manual.html"
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# Where to find what documentation?

## Individual repos

- GOV.UK projects on GitHub should [conform to the README styleguide][readme]
- Additional docs should be [put in the /docs folder][docs-folder]

## Developer docs (this site)

<https://docs.publishing.service.gov.uk>

- Uses content from GitHub and public APIs to generate documentation
- Contains content on architecture, common tasks and alerts

## Confluence Wiki

<https://gov-uk.atlassian.net/wiki> (private)

- The [Platform Operations wiki][plops] contains information about 2nd line and incident management
- The [Product documentation][prod-docs] contains documentation about the features of the platform

## Opsmanual

<https://github.gds/pages/gds/opsmanual> (private)

- Contains private information on operations, such as phone numbers and account IDs

[readme]: https://github.com/alphagov/styleguides/blob/master/use-of-READMEs.md
[docs-folder]: https://github.com/alphagov/publishing-api/tree/master/doc
[plops]: https://gov-uk.atlassian.net/wiki/display/PLOPS/GOV.UK+Platform+Operations+Home
[prod-docs]: https://gov-uk.atlassian.net/wiki/display/GOVUK/Product+documentation

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Add page about where to find what documentation

In this page we write down the new "system" for docs on GOV.UK. It's
purpose is to show where things should live.
