Gollum
A simple, Git-powered wiki with a local frontend and support for many kinds of markup and content. (by gollum)
Mediawiki
🌻 The collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia. Mirror from https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core. See https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access for contributing. (by wikimedia)
| Gollum | Mediawiki | |
|---|---|---|
| 45 | 25 | |
| 13,987 | 4,534 | |
| 0.3% | 2.2% | |
| 7.5 | 10.0 | |
| 21 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| Ruby | PHP | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Gollum
Posts with mentions or reviews of Gollum.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-01-13.
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WordPress Is in Trouble
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.
- My Simple Knowledge Management and Time Tracking System
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Otter Wiki: A minimalistic wiki powered by Python, Markdown and git
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...
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Howm: Personal Wiki for Emacs
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
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TIL about the "gollum" GitHub Action event
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.
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Can Git or any other VCS be used as a database instead of SQL/NoSQL ones? Have you ever seen such a thing?
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.
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Looking for notion/jira alternatives (self-hosted) (JavaScript free)
Gollum is self-hosted and uses git for version control https://github.com/gollum/gollum
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How do you host documentation for your spouse or other users?
https://github.com/gollum/gollum ?
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Atlassian prepares to abandon on-prem server products
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.
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Hermes, an Open Source Document Management System
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.
Mediawiki
Posts with mentions or reviews of Mediawiki.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-15.
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The most interesting Open Source web applications
Wikipedia that runs on MediaWiki which is written in PHP. source code
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My collection of Ansible roles for self-hosting everything with Rocky Linux and FreeIPA
MediaWiki
- Delete files after wiki creation
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Twitter's source code has been leaked on GitHub
Do you mean Fandom wiki? You would want some kind of open source wiki platform. MediaWiki (used for Wikipedia) is probably the most popular and full featured.
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Phewww...😅
It's all open source https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki
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Crowdsourced Glossary for Survivalists: A User-Experience Based Resource for Brands, Products, Plants, and Techniques
A little money, a little installation work, and this: https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki
- This is the first time, or maybe the perfect opportunity for public mass adoption of a free software. What do you think of Mastodon Evangelism?
- Even with the flaws I have added Chad to my toolbox
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Portable Off Grid Wikipedia
This is overkill. The entirety of Wikipedia is made available for free download by the Wikimedia foundation, the code is open-source, and anyone can set up their own copy of Wikipedia on a normal PC with a big hard disk. Power this off a portable battery and solar panel and you have off-grid Wikipedia without any hardware hacking.
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Looking for a selfhosted solution for keeping track of ongoing conversations
Last time I had occasion to use one - i used mediawiki
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Gollum and Mediawiki you can also consider the following projects:
Wiki.js - Wiki.js | A modern and powerful wiki app built on Node.js
Dokuwiki - The DokuWiki Open Source Wiki Engine
Gitit - A wiki using HAppS, pandoc, and git
BookStack - A platform to create documentation/wiki content built with PHP & Laravel