OpenGuides-Dev February 2008

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Lancaster? Glasgow?
by Kake L Pugh 14 Mar '08

14 Mar '08

Are the Lancaster and Glasgow guide admins still on this list? If not, is anyone in touch with them? Their guides have been down for a while now - if they're not coming back, we should take them off the front page of openguides.org - and if they would like to come back, we should try to help! Kake

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What's your guide for?
by Kake L Pugh 24 Feb '08

24 Feb '08

While we were chatting on #openguides IRC, perigrin asked me and Bob why we find RGL useful. We came up with a lot of stuff, which I have summarised below. I thought this might be a good question for other guide admins/users to ask themselves. What do you like about your guide(s)? Why do you use them? I would be interested to hear your answers. Bob uses RGL to keep track of known decent pubs. He also likes writing reviews as a means of procrastination :) I use it: - to keep track of known decent pubs and restaurants - to help me find pubs near specific restaurants (for meeting in before dinner) - to note down the quirks of various Tube/rail stations; see e.g. http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Wimbledon_Station http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Green_Park_Station - as a quick reference for which central stations are served by specific outlying stations, to help me plan my journey when I'm visiting an unfamiliar area - to note down which dishes are the best ones in local takeaways - to find cafes and pubs that I can stop off at when I'm on a long walk - as somewhere central to keep links to reviews, forum posts, etc about a given place, so if I'm meeting someone somewhere I can just give them a single RGL link instead of three map links, two pub review site links, etc In the past, I've used it to keep a list of restaurants I'd not visited but wanted to - but the list got too big so I stopped doing that because I didn't want RGL to have too many stub pages with no original content. This is basically because London's so big - I have no such qualms about the Cambridge guide, which I also have a hand in running. I also just had an email this morning from a friend who says she's using RGL to help her explore her neighbourhood. She plans to visit a new place every week and write it up for RGL. Kake

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OpenGuides-Dev February 2008