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+# Welcome to the functional documentation of portail-data
+
+## Commands
+
+* `mkdocs new [dir-name]` - Create a new project.
+* `mkdocs serve` - Start the live-reloading docs server.
+* `mkdocs build` - Build the documentation site.
+* `mkdocs help` - Print this help message.
+
+## Project layout
+
+    mkdocs.yml    # The main file and configuration file.
+    docs/
+        index.md  # The documentation homepage.
+        ...       # Other markdown pages, images and other files.