Gollum VS Gitit

Depends on your target user. If you want something really simple for developers, https://github.com/gollum/gollum is pretty neat (is what powers the Wiki system on GitHub), while if you want something simple for people who aren't developers, something like Mediawiki would fit better. Although Mediawiki requires a database, you can use SQLite (which is basically a file on disk as a DB) for it.

Dokuwiki is also a neat old-school alternative that basically treats files on disk as articles/pages, so no (other) DB needed.

Not many wiki site engines based on Markdown work directly from git as cleanly as this.

There's a few of them though, such as this old Ruby lang standby with a decade's worth of features that a decade ago was a way to host your same GitHub Pages site locally, supporting SSO:

https://github.com/gollum/gollum

https://github.com/gollum/gollum/wiki/Gollum-via-Rack-and-CA...

I think the web interface for the gollum wiki (which used to power GitHub wikis, but I think they have diverged) supports org mode files.

https://github.com/gollum/gollum

One of the cool things with the update adding git support to GitHub Wiki was that it was using gollum (https://github.com/gollum/gollum) and GitHub wanted to become more open source themselves (https://github.blog/2010-08-12-making-github-more-open-git-b...). Sadly, it seems like they have diverged by now, according to the GitHub Wiki on the gollum repository.

Seems there is still some historical artifacts from it left.

Arguably something like ikiwiki or gollum is doing this. These are both wikis that use git as their backend 'database'. I happen to like wikis like this a lot better over wikis that store their data in mysql or some other traditional SQL backend.

Gollum is self-hosted and uses git for version control https://github.com/gollum/gollum

https://github.com/gollum/gollum ?

For something quick and easy consider https://github.com/gollum/gollum#markups which powers Github Wikis.

Note that multi-user auth is NOT supported out of the box however.

That seems something in the ballpark of my favorite wiki software:

https://github.com/gollum/gollum

Edit and view pages as a normal markdown wiki. But the backend is just a git repository of markdown files so you can also just use your text editor and git pull/push. Usable by any novice but with the ideal power user interface.

You're correct.

It says at the bottom: powered by https://github.com/jgm/gitit

Readme states that: "Gitit is a wiki program written in Haskell. It uses Happstack for the web server and pandoc for markup processing."

I’ve used the Gitit Wiki. Database is plaintext markdown files under git source control. Renders with pandoc so you get a really good dialect of markdown. The look and feel is a little dated but 8/10 highly recommend.

I don't use gitit, but I've had people advocate it to me: https://github.com/jgm/gitit

Instead of SQLite I would prefer if you stored the snippets in a git repo like Gollum or Gitit.

I use my own forked version of gitit (dark, full-width theme, with automated toc and some other tweaks) for the last 5 years or so which looks and functions quite similarly. I handled web bookmarking/clipping with xclip (rich text clipboard) + pandoc html-to-markdown.