Wiki Builder: Skill to Build LLM Knowledge Bases (opens in new tab)

I was similarly confused, and did some digging to determine that they are not related:

https://twitter.com/DAIRInstitute/status/1830719509931663411...

Looking at the name that keeps showing up on the linked site, I suspect a collision is most likely (to be charitable).

I agree and I'm guilty of creating what is effectively a heavily hyperlinked knowledgebase and calling it a wiki. Unfortunately, only a tiny majority will ever create or edit a page despite the incredibly low barrier of a web browser without minimal authentication.

From Ward Cunningham himself:

"A wiki invites all users—not just experts—to edit any page or to create new pages within the wiki website, using only a standard 'plain-vanilla' Web browser without any extra add-ons."

"A wiki is not a carefully crafted site created by experts and professional writers and designed for casual visitors. Instead, it seeks to involve the typical visitor/user in an ongoing process of creation and collaboration that constantly changes the website landscape."

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Wikipedia is effectively a crafted site that is maintained by experts (or at the very least very knowledgeable amateurs who 'own' certain domains) designed for casual visitors. The idea of a Wiki is great but in practice I'm less confident it exists as envisioned.

I've been thinking about something in this space, actually... it feels like this is much more a UX/social problem -- in that a wiki can very much be modeled as a repo with a very permissive auto-merge bot (e.g. if PR only touches unprotected pages and user is registered, allow merge)

I find this really annoying too. A wiki is not a knowledge base. For some reason people into LLM's seem to have decided to call things wikis, I am guessing because they want the credibility wikis have.