Tokyo city guide in Wiki form?
Stephen Booth over at Metroblogging Birmingham has posted an announcement about the return of Birmingham OpenGuide, a guide to Birmingham implemented as a Wiki so it can be updated by anyone.
We need an OpenGuide for Tokyo. Anybody want to volunteer to set it up and/or host it?
The Birmingham guide appears to have been built using a kit provided by a larger project, OpenGuides. There’s a related article at the O’Reilly Perl.com site. Most of the existing OpenGuide sites seem to be for cities in the UK, but there are also ones for Vienna and for Boston and St. Paul in the US.
The OpenGuides site provides some details about software and setup for putting a OpenGuides city site together. It looks like a nice system. Anyway, it’d be great to have a user-editable city guide for Tokyo, regardless of what software it runs on. So if you have the chops and/or the bandwidth for hosting such as site, chime up here, and let’s see if we can manage to bring some people together to volunteer help in setting it up and getting it rolling.
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Great idea!
I got php/mysql/apache skills, and I’ve (co)programmed a wiki from scratch before: http://wiki.revecess.com
So I could help out, but as far as bandwidth is conserned, my server is way over loaded as it is. And I’m probably gone from Japan come July. :/
But yeah, sweet idea! I wanna help!
this sounds very similar to WikiTravel a project of Wikipedia. What would be the difference between these two ideas?
Stefan,
Dunno. I didn’t know about the WikiTravel project til I saw your comment. :) But it looks like maybe there is an intent for greater depth of info in OpenGuides. WikiTravel seems to be organized around having one page per city.