Gollum is a

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using

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as the back end storage mechanism, and written mostly in

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. It started life as the wiki system used by the

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web hosting system. 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.

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 Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. John Gruber and Aaron Swartz created Markdown in 2004 as a markup language that is appealing to human readers in its source code form. Markdown i ...

, AsciiDoc,

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, Creole and

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markup. linuxfr.org (2010/08/25), Gollum un wiki propulsé par gi

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Features

* YAML Frontmatter for controlling per-page settings * UML diagrams via PlantUML *

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and citation support (when using

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for rendering) * Annotations using CriticMarkup * Mathematics via

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* Macros * Redirects * Support for Right-To-Left Languages

Editing

Editing the pages can be done via the provided web interface, via its

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or with a text editor directly in the git repository.

References

External links

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Documentation
{{Microsoft FOSS GitHub Free wiki software Free software programmed in Ruby Microsoft free software Software using the MIT license 2009 software

Formats supported

Features

Editing

See also

References

External links