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-Phabricator is an open source collection of web applications which help
-software companies build better software.
-
-Phabricator includes applications for:
-
-  - reviewing and auditing source code;
-  - hosting and browsing repositories;
-  - assembling a party to venture forth;
-  - tracking bugs;
-  - hiding stuff from coworkers; and
-  - also some other things.
-
-You can learn more about the project (and find links to documentation and
-resources) here:
-
-  http://phabricator.org/
-
-Phabricator is developed and maintained by Phacility. The first version of
-Phabricator was originally built at Facebook.
-
-LICENSE
-
-Phabricator is released under the Apache 2.0 license except as otherwise noted.
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+Phabricator
+============
+
+Phabricator is an open source collection of web applications which help
+software companies build better software.
+
+Phabricator includes applications for:
+
+  * reviewing and auditing source code;
+  * hosting and browsing repositories;
+  * assembling a party to venture forth;
+  * tracking bugs;
+  * hiding stuff from coworkers; and
+  * also some other things.
+
+You can learn more about the project (and find links to documentation and
+resources) here:
+
+  [Phabricator.org](http://phabricator.org/)
+
+Phabricator is developed and maintained by [Phacility](http://phacility.com/).
+The first version of Phabricator was originally built at
+[Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/facebook).
+
+###LICENSE
+
+Phabricator is released under the
+[Apache 2.0](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html) license except as
+otherwise noted.