You can clone you GitHub Wiki as git repository, simply use:
git clone git@github.com:YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/YOUR_PROJECT_NAME.wiki.git
Notice the .wiki before the git extension at the end.
You can structure your Wiki files into any directory of your choice. However, a few things to remember:
- The file names need to be unique
- The file names will be set as the title of the Wiki page, so proper capitalization in your file names would make the titles readable.
- Use a dash
-to separate words as you would use a single space. - You can use special characters in the names of the files but would need to be turned into their URL safe versions when linking the files.
All files in the Wiki will be accessible from the root folder. The directory organization will not matter.
For example you might have a directory structure as follows:
1.-Introduction.md
\introduction
1.1.-Background.md
To get the link to the Background page; all you need is to use the name, as follows:
[1.1 Background](1.1-Background.md)
Anchors on a page i.e. 1.1-Background#section-1 are handled by setting Section 1 as a heading. Also the text after the # will be all in lowercase. Special characters such as dots . are removed;
e.g. 1.1.1 Problem turns into #111-Problem.