Gollum (software)

Gollum is wiki software that uses Git as the backend 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]

Gollum

Original author(s)	Tom Preston-Werner, Rick Olson, Dawa Ometto, Bart Kamphorst
Developer(s)	GitHub and community
Initial release	February 16, 2009; 16 years ago (2009-02-16)[citation needed]
Stable release	6.1.0[1]  / 23 December 2024; 2 months ago (23 December 2024)
Repository	github.com/gollum/gollum
Written in	Ruby
Operating system	Unix-like, macOS, Windows
Size	~25 MB
Type	wiki software
License	MIT License
Website	github.com/gollum/gollum

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.^[6]

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

• Free and open-source software portal

• ikiwiki – Also uses a version control system to store pages