Gollum (software)
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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 | v5.2.1[1]
/ 2021-02-25 |
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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]
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.[5]
Features[]
- 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[]
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[]
- ikiwiki: Also uses a version control system to store pages
- Gitit (software): Git-based wiki software with similar features
References[]
- ^ "Releases - gollum/gollum". github.com. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
- ^ 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
- ^ https://github.com/gollum/gollum/blob/master/README.md
- ^ (in French) linuxfr.org (2010/08/25), Gollum un wiki propulsé par git [1]
External links[]
Categories:
- GitHub
- Free wiki software
- Free software programmed in Ruby
- Microsoft free software
- Software using the MIT license
- 2009 software