Gollum
★ 14.3kA self-hosted alternative to Notion
About
Gollum is a wiki application built around Git repositories, designed for users who want their documentation stored as plain text or markup files under version control. It is positioned as a simple,...
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Features
- Git-backed wiki pages
- Web-based page editing
- Local editor editing
- Multiple markup formats
- Markdown and RDoc support
- Custom renderers
- Diagrams with Mermaid or PlantUML
- BibTeX and citation support
- Math rendering with KaTeX or MathJax
- RSS feed of recent changes
Details
- Last Updated
- Oct 10, 2026
- Created
- Mar 29, 2010
- Install Methods
- dockerbinarypackage-managersource
- Requirements
- Ruby (MRI or JRuby)Git repositoryJava installation for the .war buildrack-compatible web serverCAS SSO server for authentication support
- Authentication
- oidc-sso
- Backup & Export
- file-backup
- Runtime / Stack
- Ruby
- Privacy & Independence
- No Cloud RequiredOffline Capable
- User Model
- Multi-User
- Deployment
Deployment: Container image available
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