Gollum is a simple wiki system built on top of Git.
A Gollum Wiki is simply a git repository of a specific nature.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- A Gollum repository’s contents are human-editable text or markup files.
- Pages may be organized into directories any way you choose.
- Other content can also be included, for example images, PDFs and headers/footers for your pages.
- Gollum pages:
- May be written in a variety of markups.
- Can be edited with your favourite editor (changes will be visible after committing) or with the built-in web interface.
- Can be displayed in all versions, reverted, etc.
- Gollum strives to be compatible with GitHub and GitLab wikis.
- Just clone your GitHub/GitLab wiki and view and edit it locally!
- Gollum supports advanced functionality like:
- UML diagrams.
- BibTeX and Citation support.
- Annotations using CriticMarkup.
- Mathematics via MathJax.
- Macros.
- Redirects.
- RSS Feed of latest changes.
Website: github.com/gollum/gollum
Support:
Developer: Tom Preston-Werner, Rick Olson, Dawa Ometto, Bart Kamphorst
License: MIT License
Gollum is written in Ruby and JavaScript. Learn Ruby with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn JavaScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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