| Gollum | |
|---|---|
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| Original authors | Tom Preston-Werner, Rick Olson, Dawa Ometto, Bart Kamphorst |
| Developers | GitHub and community |
| Initial release | February 16, 2009; 16 years ago (2009-02-16)[citation needed] |
| Stable release | |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Ruby |
| Operating system | Unix-like,macOS,Windows |
| Size | ~25MB |
| Type | wiki software |
| License | MIT License |
| Website | github |
Gollum iswiki software that usesGit as the backend storage mechanism, and written mostly inRuby. It started life as the wiki system used by theGitHub 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 byGitLab to store and interconnect wiki-pages with wiki-links; a complete move away from Gollum is planned for the future.[5]
Gollum wikis are simply Git repositories that adhere to a specific format. Gollum pages may be written in a variety of formats includingMarkdown,AsciiDoc,ReStructuredText,Creole andMediaWiki markup.[6]
Editing the pages can be done via the provided web interface, via itsAPI or with a text editor directly in the Git repository.
