Gollum browser explained

Gollum browser
Screenshot Size:	220px
Author:	Harald Hanek^[1]
Released:	2005
Programming Language:	PHP
Platform:	Web browser
Language:	32 languages
Genre:	web application
Website:	gollum.easycp.de/en/

Gollum browser is a discontinued web browser for accessing Wikipedia. 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. 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

• Site-specific browser

Notes and References

1. Web site: Web tool puts new face on Wikipedia. https://web.archive.org/web/20051201042644/http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5975227.html. 1 December 2005. Alorie. Gilbert. ZDNet. 29 November 2005. dead.
2. Web site: Wayner. Peter. Top 10 specialty Web browsers you may have missed. InfoWorld. 28 October 2010. 7. 19 October 2010.
3. Web site: Goldkorn . Jeremy . The Nanny changes her mind: Wikipedia blocked again . Danwei.org . 11 September 2013.
4. Web site: Gollum, Harald Hanek . Gollum, the Wikipedia Browser . Gollum.easycp.de . 11 September 2013 . 31 March 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090331220609/http://gollum.easycp.de/en/0,1,00.html . dead .