# GitHub Flavored Markdown

> variant of Markdown used by GitHub which adds additional formatting extensions, and custom behavior specific to the platform

**Wikidata**: [Q97278868](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97278868)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub_Flavored_Markdown)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/github-flavored-markdown