Original author(s) | Tom Preston-Werner, Rick Olson, Dawa Ometto, Bart Kamphorst |
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Developer(s) | GitHub and community |
Initial release | February 16, 2009citation needed] | [
Stable release | 5.3.0[1] ![]() |
Repository | |
Written in | Ruby |
Operating system | Unix-like, macOS, Windows |
Size | ~25 MB |
Type | wiki software |
License | MIT License |
Website | github |
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]
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.[5]
Editing the pages can be done via the provided web interface, via its API or with a text editor directly in the git repository.