Software:Gollum browser

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Short description: Web application for accessing Wikipedia
Gollum browser
Gollum browser screenshot.png
Screenshot of Gollum displaying the main page of the English Wikipedia (using Mozilla Firefox on Ubuntu)
Original author(s)Harald Hanek[1]
Initial release2005
Written inPHP[1]
PlatformWeb browser
Available in32 languages
Typeweb application
Websitegollum.easycp.de/en/

Gollum browser is a web application for accessing the encyclopedia, Wikipedia. (As of 2017) Gollum is no longer accessible online.

Gollum is designed to browse Wikipedia in an easier way than directly using the web browser. Links external to Wikipedia are opened in the user's regular browser. Gollum is opened from a regular browser and makes a window that puts the Wikipedia search bar on the toolbar.[2] Gollum was created by Harald Hanek in 2005 using PHP and Ajax.[1] According to one blogger, Gollum provides a way to bypass censorship of Wikipedia in China.[3]

Languages

Though the website is available only in English and German, Gollum's GUI is available in more than 32 languages[4] and can browse nearly 50 Wikipedia editions.

Gollum's GUI

  • Arabic
  • Indonesian
  • Bulgarian
  • Catalan
  • Chinese
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • German
  • Estonian
  • Greek
  • English
  • Spanish
  • French
  • Hebrew
  • Croatian
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Luxembourgish
  • Hungarian
  • Dutch
  • Norwegian
  • Norwegian Nynorsk
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Finnish
  • Swedish
  • Tagalog


Browsable Wikipedia editions

  • Arabic
  • Bulgarian
  • Bosnian
  • Catalan
  • Chinese
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Esperanto
  • Estonian
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Hebrew
  • Hungarian
  • Icelandic
  • Indonesian
  • Italian
  • * Japanese
  • Korean
  • Kurdish
  • Latin
  • Luxembourgish
  • Limburgan
  • Low German
  • Norwegian
  • Norwegian Nynorsk
  • Persian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Pushto
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Serbian
  • Serbo-Croatian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Swiss German
  • Tagalog
  • Turkish
  • Ukrainian
  • Walloon
  • Western Frisian
  • Yiddish


See also

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