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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VOCABULARY: Dunning–Kruger effect — perception versus reality

Thursday, March 9, 2023

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

Dunning–Kruger effect

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Relation between average self-perceived performance and average actual performance on a college exam.[1] The red area shows the tendency of low performers to overestimate their abilities. Nevertheless, low performers’ self-assessment is lower than that of high performers.

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VOCABULARY:’Migrant’ and how it has been politically redefined

Sunday, October 2, 2022

https://sharylattkisson.com/2022/09/how-propagandists-redefined-migrant-and-got-the-media-to-go-along-podcast/

How Propagandists Redefined ‘Migrant’ (and got The Media to go along) (Podcast)
Dated: September 21, 2022 by Sharyl Attkisson

A case study in how propagandists redefined the word “migrant” –and got The Media to go along.

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I really like how Sharyl Attkisson took apart the whole “scam”.  And, indicted Wikipedia and Dictionary as be “captured” by the Dark Side.

I’ll never contribute to Wikipedia again … ever.

There’s no transcript to quite from but it’s well worth a listen.

Everything is an ASTROTURF!

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RANT: Wikipedia goes the way of Snopes

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/02/01/five-of-the-best-examples-of-left-wing-bias-on-wikipedia-in-2017/

Five of the Best Examples of Left-wing Bias on Wikipedia in 2017
by T.D. ADLER 1 Feb 2018

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Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales believes the Wikipedia model can help salvage journalistic integrity, but in the year since Donald Trump took office as President of the United States, the online encyclopedia has instead proven unable to even restrain its own biased editing community.

A look back on five of the biggest cases of political bias that gripped the site in 2017 should discourage anyone from looking to Wikipedia as a source for reliable and neutral information on the political topics of the day.

1. Instructor at Berkeley sending students on anti-Trump editing spree

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​Sadly, I like the concept of Wikipedia. But like Snopes, the hard left tilt has destroyed it’s value for me.

I made some donations to Wikipedia in the past but no more. 

So sad, to see a great idea, aka like the internet version of Library of Alexandria, go astray.

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