Why are wikis required to have public repos or paid orgs?

[Sebastian2852]

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On private interal projects in orgs requires either a public repo or a the repo must be under a paid org. This is kind of annoying as there is no way to my knowledge to easily host docs for private projects as both pages and wikis are both paid for private projects or require public repos.

[fudik94]

You are right github pages and wikis are not available for private repositories unless your organization is on a paid plan.
One simple solution is to use a public repository only for documentation and keep your main project private. You can add links between them.
Another option is to host your docs locally or on another free service like read docs or notion.
I agree, it would be nice if GitHub allowed private Pages for free accounts in the future.

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