INSPIRATIONAL: Personal Encyclopedias — whoami.wiki — a personal encyclopedia

Monday, May 18, 2026

https://whoami.wiki/blog/personal-encyclopedias

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This is when I realized I was no longer working on a family history project. What I had been building, page by page, was a personal encyclopedia. A structured, browsable, interconnected account of my life compiled from the data I already had lying around.

I’ve been working on this as whoami.wiki. It uses MediaWiki as its foundation, which turns out to be a great fit because language models already understand Wikipedia conventions deeply from their training data. You bring your data exports, and agents draft the pages for you to review.

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Wow I really think this fellow is on to something potentially very big.

Think about it “a personal encyclopedia”!

It could be a fascinating project for a child, a family, or a group.

It might be the “holy grail” of “Personal Knowledge Management”.

When I get settled in Flori-duh, I’ll explore it further. Probably dedicate a computer to it. If I can figure out how to do it, make it online for everyone to join.’

“But there is no foole to the olde foole, folke saie.” — John Heywood’s 1546 glossary

Laugh!

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SOFTWARE: Easy installs are not always secure

Thursday, January 1, 2015

I have been playing with wikis.

I use two Website Service Providers.

(One for “production” and the other for “fun”.)

So I slapped up a MEDIAWIKI on WSP#1 and in short order it was being used by Chinese hackers.

Nuked it. And still trying to get WSP#1 to unsuspend the account.

So i put up MEDIAWIKI on WSP#2 and in short order it was being used by some other hackers.

Nuked it.

So I put up TIKI WIKI which looks like it installs in more secure start up mode.

It doesn’t install correctly.

Argh!

Depending upon how I make out with WSP#1 and WSP#2, I’ll reveal the identities at later date.

YMMV

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