# filiparag/wikiman

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

Repository: https://github.com/filiparag/wikiman
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/wikiman
Language: Shell
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: man-pages, search-engine, offline, terminal-based, freebsd, documentation, tldr-pages, linux, gentoo-wiki, arch-wiki, tui, cli, devdocs
Last push: 2026-07-11T15:04:04+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 75/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 92, release rhythm 40, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2202, "days_push": 53, "days_rel": 476, "gap_med": 1, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1011, forks 26 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:13.208437+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: search-engine, documentation, cli, terminal-ui
- domain: documentation, developer-tools
- platform: bsd, cli, cross-platform
- tags: offline-documentation, man-pages, tldr-pages, arch-wiki, gentoo-wiki, devdocs, freebsd-docs, fuzzy-search, shell, command-line, linux

## Member repositories
- filiparag/wikiman (main) score 75

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:13.208437+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:11:50.613917+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/filiparag/wikiman (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:13.208437+00:00, sha 1e11584a53c6)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.