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# Core Beliefs

The living document for wikihub's core beliefs, vision, and why it exists.

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## Shared Mind for Humanity

Wikipedia proved that strangers could build an encyclopedia together. But it enforced a single voice — "neutral point of view" — and in doing so, flattened the richest parts of human knowledge: perspective, experience, dissent, intuition.

wikihub is building something different: a **shared mind** where every contributor keeps their own voice.

Imagine a doctor's wiki on chronic pain, a patient's wiki on chronic pain, and a researcher's wiki on chronic pain — all interlinked, all forkable, all searchable as one corpus. No edit wars. No lowest-common-denominator consensus. Just the full texture of human understanding, made navigable.

The shared mind isn't one brain. It's a network of brains — each wiki a neuron, each wikilink a synapse, each fork a new branch of thought. The platform's job is to make the whole network traversable while preserving each node's integrity.

### Why AI makes this possible now

The shared mind was always the dream. What makes it achievable now is that AI agents can do the maintenance work that killed every previous attempt:

- **Cross-referencing** — An agent can read 10,000 wikis and surface connections no human would find
- **Translation** — Not just languages, but between expertise levels, jargon, and frameworks
- **Maintenance** — The Karpathy LLM Wiki pattern means wikis stay alive instead of rotting. Agents ingest new sources, update cross-references, flag contradictions
- **Curation** — [[The Librarian]] vision: an AI guide that knows the full constellation and can lead you through it

The previous generation of wikis failed because maintenance was a human bottleneck. When AI handles the gardening, humans can focus on what they're uniquely good at: having experiences, forming opinions, and sharing hard-won knowledge.

### What this looks like at scale

- A student forks a professor's wiki and annotates it with their own understanding
- An AI agent ingests a research paper and ripple-updates 15 wikis that cite related work
- A practitioner's wiki on a medical condition ranks alongside the clinical wiki, because lived experience is knowledge too
- The full graph of human knowledge becomes queryable: "show me every perspective on X" instead of "show me the consensus on X"

This is wikihub's north star: not a single source of truth, but a **constellation of truths** that together form humanity's shared mind.

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## Humanity's Archive

The archive for humanity isn't one library with one voice. It's a constellation of individual knowledge bases — each one a person's understanding of their corner of the world — that can be traversed, forked, and cross-referenced.

Wikipedia chose consensus. One article per topic, edit wars to resolve disagreements. That works for encyclopedic facts but kills perspective, voice, and the kind of knowledge that comes from lived experience.

wikihub is the opposite. Every person gets their own archive. Karpathy's wiki about transformers is different from your wiki about transformers. Both are valuable. Neither replaces the other. The platform's job is to make the full constellation navigable.

### Why this matters now

The Karpathy moment — when the most respected ML researcher in the world chose to publish his knowledge as flat markdown in a git repo instead of a blog, book, or course — validated the format. Markdown files in a git repo IS the right shape for knowledge in the AI era. Not databases, not CMS, not Notion.

But GitHub is a code host, not a knowledge host. No rendering, no access control, no search, no social layer. There's a gap between "I want a Karpathy-style knowledge base" and "I can publish one." wikihub fills that gap.

### The agent angle is the moat

Anyone can build a wiki host. The `.wikihub/acl` + MCP + content negotiation + `AGENTS.md` onboarding surface means agents are first-class citizens. An agent can sign up, create a wiki, publish pages, read other wikis, and discover knowledge — all without a browser. That's what makes wikihub not just "another wiki platform" but the knowledge layer for the agent era.

## Core beliefs

- **Shared mind, individual voice.** The constellation of wikis IS the shared mind. No single wiki needs to be complete — the network is the knowledge.
- **Infrastructure, not app.** wikihub is the memory layer + git host. Agents are clients. The site stands alone and serves any LLM/agent.
- **Individual voice over consensus.** Every person's archive is theirs. No edit wars, no "neutral point of view" policy. Voice is a feature.
- **Separate repos, seamless integration.** A coding agent should need <50 lines to fully operate a wiki.
- **YAGNI.** Ship without anti-abuse machinery, without comments, without collaborative editing. Iterate reactively.
- **API for writes, git pull for reads.** Same split as listhub.
- **Read liberally, write conservatively.** Postel's Law for frontmatter compatibility.
- **Trust the agent era on velocity.** No time estimates for coding-agent work.
- **Attribution as currency.** When [[The Librarian]] cites your wiki, that's the reward. Make knowledge findable and citable.
- **The archive outlives the platform.** Every wiki is a git repo you can clone and take with you. If wikihub disappears, the knowledge survives.

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*See also: [[The Librarian]] for the AI vision, [[Onboarding Vision]] for how new users discover wikihub.*