On Sun 09 Jan 2005, Andrew Black andrew3@black1.org.uk wrote:

I am interested in running a Wiki and am perplexed by the range of Wikis available. My preference would be to use one where I know people involved.

CGI::Wiki::Kwiki runs on CGI::Wiki and is essentially being worked on by me and Tom Insam (who I believe however is taking a break from development at the moment). NOTE: it is different from Kwiki, which is completely independent and has a different development team.

I am rather confused about the boundary between Openguides software and CGI::Wiki.

CGI::Wiki is a toolkit for building wikis and wiki-like things, in the same way as the Template Toolkit is a toolkit for doing things that involve creating text/HTML/XML/etc from templates and Class::DBI is a toolkit for writing applications that use a database to store object data.

OpenGuides is an application built on CGI::Wiki and the Template Toolkit. CGI::Wiki::Kwiki is a different application built using the same tools.

If I want to run a Wiki that is not actually an guide , would Openguides software help me or just give me an overhead I didn't need. Conversely does CGI::Wiki work by itself or does it need other software to make it work.

You could run a non-guide wiki on OpenGuides if you like - I know of at least one person who did this successfully. But I would go for the solution of running CGI::Wiki::Kwiki and nagging me (that's if I weren't me) to add category support to it.

Kake