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.
This is an incredible open source project that I love. I've always tried to dabble with tools like TiddlyWiki, Roam, and Obsidian to essentially build my own little personal wiki. This is a tool to help make that happen based off of data that already exists and working with Claude Code (or other AI tools). I wish there was a more user-friendly interface for it, but beggars can't be choosers, and this tool is incredibly cool. It's also really neat to read about how it came to be, this little personal encyclopedia.
