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Open issues about Documentation from GitHub projects in every language. The list opens on the ones we rated beginner-friendly, and the subject's other names are matched too.

Documentation

Open issues
488k
New this week
9.1k
Nobody on it yet
452k
Average difficulty
3.0/5

What this list is like

  • Average annotated difficulty: 3.0/5 across 548,977 issues.
  • 43% of 548,977 time estimates are one day or less.

Updated Nov 9, 2026.

About Documentation

Documentation work writes and improves the text people read to use a project: guides, API references, tutorials and READMEs. It is one of the most common ways into a project.

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How many Documentation issues are open here?
487,903 open issues: 9,130 opened in the last seven days, and 451,976 with nobody working on them yet. We count them once a day.
Where do I start?
Pick an issue marked beginner-friendly, read the project's contributing guide and comment before you begin. The contributor guide walks through it, from choosing an issue to your first pull request.
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