The Everything Engine is an open source content management system written in Perl. It is designed for sites which allow submissions by any web user, but can be configured to serve as a content management system for a small number of trusted administrators. It has a very database-centric design; each page in the Everything Engine is a node, and each node has a nodetype which is also a node; much of the code is stored in the database. This simple design has proved to be extremely flexible.
A number of sites use the Everything Engine; the most prominent being Everything2. Others include Perl Monks and Animefu.
The code is freely available under the Artistic License. The Engine is developed by the Everything Development Company, a division of Blockstackers Intergalactic.
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