Gollum (software)
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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]
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, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-02-16)[citation needed] |
Stable release | |
Repository | |
Written in | Ruby |
Operating system | Unix-like, macOS, Windows |
Size | ~25 MB |
Type | wiki software |
License | MIT License |
Website | github |
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]
Editing the pages can be done via the provided web interface, via its API or with a text editor directly in the git repository.
- ikiwiki: Also uses a version control system to store pages
- "Release 5.3.2". 1 May 2023. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
- 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
- "Gollum/README.md at master · gollum/Gollum". GitHub. 29 March 2022.
- "Wikis development guidelines | GitLab". docs.gitlab.com. Retrieved 2023-06-15.