Gollum
Original author(s)Tom Preston-Werner, Rick Olson, Dawa Ometto, Bart Kamphorst
Developer(s)GitHub and community
Initial releaseFebruary 16, 2009; 14 years ago (2009-02-16)[citation needed]
Stable release
5.3.2[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 1 May 2023; 3 months ago (1 May 2023)
Repository
Written inRuby
Operating systemUnix-like, macOS, Windows
Size~25 MB
Typewiki software
LicenseMIT License
Websitegithub.com/gollum/gollum

Gollum is a wiki software using git as the back end storage mechanism, and written mostly in Ruby. It started life as the wiki system used by the GitHub web hosting system.[2][3] Although the open source Gollum project and the software currently used to run GitHub wikis have diverged from one another, Gollum strives to maintain compatibility with the latter.[4] Currently it is used by GitLab server to store and interconnect wiki-pages with wiki-links, but the plan is to move complete away from Gollum in the future.[5]

Formats supported

Gollum wikis are simply Git repositories that adhere to a specific format. Gollum pages may be written in a variety of formats including Markdown, AsciiDoc, ReStructuredText, Creole and MediaWiki markup.[6]

Features

Editing

Editing the pages can be done via the provided web interface, via its API or with a text editor directly in the git repository.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Release 5.3.2". 1 May 2023. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
  2. ^ Cunningham & Cunningham (2014), Gollum wiki
  3. ^ https://wiki.dtg.cl.cam.ac.uk/wiki-help/wiki-help Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Gollum wiki help page at University of Cambridge Digital Technology Group
  4. ^ "Gollum/README.md at master · gollum/Gollum". GitHub. 29 March 2022.
  5. ^ "Wikis development guidelines | GitLab". docs.gitlab.com. Retrieved 2023-06-15.
  6. ^ (in French) linuxfr.org (2010/08/25), Gollum un wiki propulsé par git [1]

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