Category:OpenGuides

Template:Wiki Engine OpenGuides™ – the guides made by you — is a complete system for running a wiki website about a subject where geographical location is important. It is mostly used to run guides about a city or town. OpenGuides is an open source wiki-based free software web application written in Perl.

Features

• Structured data
• Google Maps integration
• SQL backend storage; using Postgres, MySQL, or SQLite
• Resource Description Framework (RDF) output, for integration into Semantic Web

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Our StructuredData is implemented via user-friendly individual text boxes, rather than MediaWiki-style templates; see for example Sandbox edit ^{[dead link]} on the Boston OpenGuide.

We chose to use SQL storage because it's flexible, and it allows guide admins to create customised queries and features; see for example the category search on the Randomness Guide to London. We included SQLite support for situations where running a proper database server isn't possible; SQLite is a complete SQL engine which stores all its data in a single file on disk. It does not use CamelCase.

Community

• The #OpenGuides IRC — network: irc.perl.org, channel: #OpenGuides
• OpenGuides mailing lists
  • OpenGuides-Dev — OpenGuides software developers' list — via Archive.org

See also

• Open Guides article — on Perl.com by Kake Pugh, 31 October 2003
• OpenGuides: City Wikis in Perl — article on ONLamp.com by Kake Pugh, 5 July 2007, via Archive.org
• dev.OpenGuides.org — wiki, bug-tracker and source repository
• OpenGuides — on metaCPAN.org