Gollum Wiki

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Gollum
Basic data

Publishing year February 16, 2009
Current  version 5.1
( August 3, 2020 )
operating system platform independent
programming language Ruby
category Wiki software
License MIT license
German speaking No
github.com/gollum/gollum

Gollum is a wiki that uses Git as a back end . It's mostly written in Ruby . It is the wiki used by GitHub , a web-based online service used by software development projects.

A sequel that was inspired by Gollum is Realms .

Supported formats

A Gollum Wiki is a Git repository that contains files with Gollum pages. Gollum pages can be written in different simplified markup languages. These are:

To edit

The pages can be edited either through the web interface , through the API or through a text editor directly in the Git repository.

Individual evidence

  1. Release 5.1 . August 3, 2020 (accessed August 8, 2020).
  2. Cunningham & Cunningham (2014), Gollum wiki
  3. https://wiki.dtg.cl.cam.ac.uk/wiki-help/wiki-help University of Cambridge, Digital Technology Group

Web links