Gollum (software)

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Gollum
Original author(s) Tom Preston-Werner, Rick Olson, Dawa Ometto, Bart Kamphorst
Developer(s) GitHub and community
Initial releaseFebruary 16, 2009;16 years ago (2009-02-16)[ citation needed ]
Stable release
6.1.0 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 23 December 2024;7 months ago (23 December 2024)
Repository
Written in Ruby
Operating system Unix-like, macOS, Windows
Size ~25 MB
Type wiki software
License MIT License
Website github.com/gollum/gollum

Gollum is wiki software that uses Git as the backend 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 used by GitLab to store and interconnect wiki-pages with wiki-links; a complete move away from Gollum is planned for the future. [5]

Contents

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 6.1.0". 23 December 2024. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  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". 29 March 2022 – via GitHub.
  5. ↑ "Wikis development guidelines". GitLab. Retrieved 2023-06-15.
  6. ↑ (in French) linuxfr.org (2010/08/25), Gollum un wiki propulsé par git
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