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tldr-pages
Original author(s)Romain Prieto
Initial releaseDecember 8, 2013; 11 years ago (2013-12-08)[1]
Repositorygithub.com/tldr-pages/tldr
Written inMarkdown
PlatformMultiplatform
Available inGerman, Spanish, Farsi, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japan, Korean, Malayalam, Dutch, Norwegian, Portugal, Russian, Swedish, Slovene, Hindi, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Chinese,
TypeSoftware documentation
LicenseCC BY-SA 4.0
MIT License
Websitetldr.sh

TLDR pages (stylized as tldr-pages) is a free and open-source collaborative software documentation project that aims to be a simpler, more approachable complement to traditional Man page. Its a collection of community-maintained help pages that covers command-line utilities and other computer programs. A TLDR page can be invoked by issuing the tldr command.[2][3]

As of March 2021, tldr repo on GitHub has 30K stars and 2.5 forks.[4]

History

Romain Prieto started the project by making the first initial commit on the famous version controlling site called GitHub, on 8 December 2013 at 19:56:16 according to the timezone of their personal computer.[5]

At first, only a handful of people were contributing tldr. By the end of 2015, thanks to some unknown Chinese publications promoting it, the project has seen a rapid amount of growth in popularity on Github, leaving popular software like Swift in behind.[6] On 25 December 2015, the project ended up trending at 3rd place.[7] By 27 December 2015, tldr-pages repo had reached 2700+ stars, having gained approximately 700 of it only in a week.[8] In the following day, the project reached to the front page of Hacker News.[9] After the post, the amount of stars received by the project reached to 3700+ and the project itself arrived at #1 in daily popularity within the day.[10][11] The project had seen another bump in late 2017 and later kept a stable increase of popularity to this day.[12]

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