diff --git a/doc/README.md b/doc/README.md
index ea22f5516e5e9..141db3d7a8da5 100644
--- a/doc/README.md
+++ b/doc/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#Documentation for scikit-learn
+# Documentation for scikit-learn
 
 This section contains the full manual and web page as displayed in
 http://scikit-learn.org. To generate the full web page, including
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ costing us bandwidth. You can run OptiPNG with::
 
     make optipng
 
-#Development documentation automated build
+# Development documentation automated build
 
 A Rackspace cloud server named 'docbuilder' is continuously building the master branch
 to update the http://scikit-learn.org/dev tree of the website.