Living Encyclopedia

┌─ project: encyclopedia ─────────────────────────── rev 0.1 / 2026-04-17 ─┐
│ drawing: read-generate loop                                              │
│ scale: nominal · the corpus grows by implication                         │
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         ┌─ A ──────┐    ┌─ B ──────┐    ┌─ C ──────┐    ┌─ D ──────┐
         │ check    │    │ seed     │    │ draft    │    │ link     │
visit ─┐ │  [1]     │    │  [2]     │    │  [3]     │    │  [4]     │
       ├→│          │ ─→ │          │ ─→ │          │ ─→ │          │ ─→ [5]
 lore ─┘ │ exists?  │    │ context  │    │ agent    │    │ crawl    │
         └──────────┘    └──────────┘    └──────────┘    └──────────┘

─ legend ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

visit   reader clicks a link to an article slug
lore    existing wiki corpus (all prior generated articles)

[1]  check            does this article already exist in the wiki?
[2]  seed             if missing, gather backlinks + nearby articles as grounding
[3]  draft            generate a new article grounded in the existing lore + the slug's implied entity
[4]  link             extract entity names from the new draft; future clicks will seed those
[5]  rendered article a new entry in the collective fiction, readable + linkable + canonical

─ notes ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

. every reader is a generator — clicking a dead link creates the thing.
. earliest articles define the tone; later ones inherit it via the lore
  grounding.
. no moderation. drift is the point. the wiki evolves by what people click.