# MetaIO documentation
**URL:** https://discourse.itk.org/t/metaio-documentation/7497
**Category:** Beginner Questions
**Created:** [April 15, 2025, 11:29am UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/metaio-documentation/7497 "2025-04-15T11:29:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Francis](https://discourse.itk.org/u/Francis)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2025, 11:29am UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/metaio-documentation/7497/1 "2025-04-15T11:29:30Z")
Hi all,
I have just started working with MetaIO files and was hoping to look at the ITK documentation on the subject but when I attempt to access this site:
[https://itk.org/Wiki/ITK/MetaIO/Documentation](https://itk.org/Wiki/ITK/MetaIO/Documentation)
I get 403 Forbidden.
Is there something I have to do to be able to view this site?
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### Author:  [@zivy](https://discourse.itk.org/u/zivy)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2025, 1:21pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/metaio-documentation/7497/2 "2025-04-15T13:21:42Z")
@dzenanz , this is also the link target on the [read the docs page](https://docs.itk.org/en/latest/learn/faq.html) for the MetaImage format. Was this wiki page supposed to be moved to read-the-docs or is this a temporary connectivity issue?
@Francis, a quick workaround is via [the last backup](https://web.archive.org/web/20250324151047/https://itk.org/Wiki/ITK/MetaIO/Documentation) by the wayback machine (on the web nothing is ever fully gone).
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### Author:  [@matt.mccormick](https://discourse.itk.org/u/matt.mccormick)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/metaio-documentation/7497/3 "2025-04-15T14:53:50Z")
The Insight Software Consortium is working on getting a copy of the Wiki’s content from Kitware and re-publishing it. It was recently taken offline.
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### Author:  [@Francis](https://discourse.itk.org/u/Francis)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2025, 6:39pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/metaio-documentation/7497/4 "2025-04-15T18:39:10Z")
Thanks @zivy and @matt.mccormick !
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### Author:  [@dzenanz](https://discourse.itk.org/u/dzenanz)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2025, 1:33pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/metaio-documentation/7497/5 "2025-04-16T13:33:53Z")
The link works again.
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### Author:  [@matt.mccormick](https://discourse.itk.org/u/matt.mccormick)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2025, 2:48pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/metaio-documentation/7497/6 "2025-04-16T14:48:18Z")
> The link works again.
The link does not work outside of Kitware’s internal network.
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### Author:  [@matt.mccormick](https://discourse.itk.org/u/matt.mccormick)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2025, 3:53pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/metaio-documentation/7497/7 "2025-04-16T15:53:25Z")
The MetaIO documentation has been ported to markdown / ITK’s ReadTheDocs documentation:
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> This adds the MetaIO documentation from the ITK MediaWiki wiki, which is
> no long…er available online.
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> The content is generated from the March 25th, 2025 Internet Archive
> Wayback Machine Archive:
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> https://web.archive.org/web/20250324151047/https://itk.org/Wiki/ITK/MetaIO/Documentation
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> With Perplexity.ai, Gemini 2.5 Pro model:
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> https://www.perplexity.ai/search/convert-the-attached-mediawiki-JJ7Shb.OQkar6ClwXC\_puA
>
> And wordwrapping, a few updates for supported compilers, etc.