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filiparag/wikiman

Wikiman is a universal offline documentation search engine for manual pages, tldr-pages, ArchWiki, Gentoo Wiki, DevDocs, and FreeBSD documentation observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/filiparag/wikiman · Shell · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

75/100

  • Activity 92
  • Release rhythm 40
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 1
  • age_days: 2202
  • days_rel: 476
  • days_push: 53
  • n_releases_24m: 2

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1011 stars · 26 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Wikiman is an offline documentation search engine for Unix-like systems that indexes manual pages, tldr-pages, ArchWiki, Gentoo Wiki, FreeBSD docs, and DevDocs sources. It offers fuzzy full-text search through a terminal interface without requiring an internet connection.

Use cases

  • search man pages offline
  • browse arch wiki from terminal without internet
  • fuzzy search tldr pages and devdocs locally
  • find documentation without being exact
  • offline documentation viewer for linux and freebsd
  • search system manuals and wikis from the command line

When to choose

  • you need documentation access without an internet connection
  • you want one tool to search man pages, wikis, and tldr together
  • you work primarily in the terminal on Linux or BSD

When to avoid

  • you need a graphical documentation browser
  • you require online-only or always-up-to-date docs
  • you are on Windows without a Unix-like environment

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

search-engine documentation cli terminal-ui documentation developer-tools bsd cli cross-platform offline-documentation man-pages tldr-pages arch-wiki gentoo-wiki devdocs freebsd-docs fuzzy-search shell command-line linux

1 source

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
filiparag/wikimanmain75

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="filiparag/wikiman")

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