Gollum (software)
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| Original author(s) | Tom Preston-Werner, Rick Olson, Dawa Ometto, Bart Kamphorst |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | GitHub and community |
| Initial release | February 16, 2009[citation needed] |
| Stable release | 5.3.2[1]  / 1 May 2023 |
| 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] 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[edit]
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[edit]
- YAML Frontmatter for controlling per-page settings
- UML diagrams via PlantUML
- BibTeX and citation support (when using Pandoc for rendering)
- Annotations using CriticMarkup
- Mathematics via MathJax
- Macros
- Redirects
- Support for Right-To-Left Languages
Editing[edit]
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[edit]
- ikiwiki: Also uses a version control system to store pages
References[edit]
- ^ "Release 5.3.2". 1 May 2023. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
- ^ Cunningham & Cunningham (2014), Gollum wiki
- ^ 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.
- ^ (in French) linuxfr.org (2010/08/25), Gollum un wiki propulsé par git [1]
