IdeaWazaWiki

A guide to this wiki for AI agents

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This page tells AI agents, and the people who run them, what IdeaWaza is and how it is organized. It also explains how to read, cite, and reuse pages, and how agents may be able to take part in the future. Right now only the wiki owner and his own assistant edit this wiki. Human readers may find it a useful map of the wiki as well.

Summary for agents

  • Site name: IdeaWaza (software site name IdeaWazaWiki), at https://ideawaza.com
  • Software: MediaWiki 1.46.2, according to the site API.
  • Purpose: an educational wiki for ideas, open knowledge, learning, teaching, research, and practical proposals.
  • Main topics: problems in living, economic improvement, decentralized wikis, AI agents and payments, longevity, abundance, and learning guides.
  • Key hub pages: Main page, Navigation, Ideas, Page ideas, Proposed pages, Project proposals.
  • Raw wikitext: add ?action=raw to any page URL, for example https://ideawaza.com/wiki/Navigation?action=raw
  • API endpoint: https://ideawaza.com/api.php (a siteinfo query returned valid JSON when this page was written).
  • Recent changes: Recent changes. New pages: New pages and Special new pages.
  • License: the footer states that content is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International unless otherwise noted. Check the footer notice on each page before reuse.
  • Editing: closed. Only the wiki owner and his own assistant edit this wiki. Outside agents and the public cannot edit, but they may read and cite pages freely under the license.
  • Robots file: when this page was written, /robots.txt redirected to the main page, so no robots rules were published there. Crawl politely anyway.

What this wiki is about

IdeaWaza is a wiki for learning, teaching, and research. It mixes original articles, project proposals, educational topics, and pages kept from elsewhere. Much of the newer writing follows a few connected themes.

  • Problems in living: practical thinking about the everyday challenges people face, as in Solving problems in living.
  • Economic improvement: basic income, small businesses, and ways to reduce poverty, as in Ending poverty.
  • Decentralized wikis: how knowledge can be stored, copied, and kept alive without one company in control.
  • Agents and payments: how software agents can do useful work, spend small amounts, and publish safely.
  • Longevity: research into aging and longer healthy lives.
  • Abundance: which goods are getting cheaper and what that means, as in Post-scarcity economy.
  • Learning guides: pages written to help a reader study a topic step by step.

The wiki also holds pages imported from Wikipedia deletion discussions. These form a separate archive. They were preserved so the work is not lost, and they are not original IdeaWaza writing. Agents should treat them as a distinct collection when summarizing the site.

How the wiki is organized

The sidebar is the fastest way in. It links to the main page, recent changes, new pages, idea pages, a random page, wiki navigation, browse pages, browse topics, page ideas, project proposals, and proposed pages. The Navigation page gathers the main starting points with a short note on each area. Randori Front is another page worth a visit.

Categories group related pages. The category list shows every category in use. Most pages carry several categories at the bottom.

Pages tend to fall into a few types:

  • Articles that explain a topic.
  • Project proposals that describe something that could be built, tested, or organized.
  • Hubs that collect links on a theme.
  • Thought experiments that explore an idea without claiming it is settled.
  • Learning guides that lead a reader through a subject.

Many original pages end with a section of discussion questions, essay ideas, and AI prompt ideas. These are meant for classrooms, study groups, and anyone who wants to think further.

How to read pages efficiently

  • Fetch raw wikitext with ?action=raw rather than parsing full HTML. It is smaller and keeps links and categories easy to read.
  • Use the API at https://ideawaza.com/api.php for lists of pages, categories, and recent changes.
  • Follow categories and See also links to find related pages.
  • Check robots.txt before crawling and obey any rules you find. Respect rate limits and server errors.
  • Crawl slowly. One request per second or slower is a sensible default.
  • Send a descriptive user agent that names your tool and gives a way to contact you.
  • Cache pages you have already read, and use recent changes to fetch only what is new.

How to cite and reuse

  • Cite the page title, the full URL, and the date you retrieved it.
  • Follow the license shown in the site footer, including attribution and share-alike terms where they apply.
  • Do not present wiki content as your own writing.
  • Quote accurately and mark quotes clearly. Do not change wording inside a quote.
  • Note that pages change. A summary may be out of date by the time someone reads it, so link back to the source.
  • For preserved pages from Wikipedia, credit the original source as well as this wiki.

How agents may participate in the future

Editing is closed at present. Only the wiki owner and his own assistant edit this wiki. Outside agents and the public cannot edit, create pages, or post here. Agents may still read and cite pages freely under the license shown in the footer.

The owner is thinking about ways that outside agents and people might take part later. None of these exist yet. They are ideas, not promises.

  • Proposing pages: an agent could suggest a title and a short outline, to be listed on Proposed pages if the owner accepts it.
  • Paid or permissioned contributions: a small fee or a granted permission could be required before a contribution is considered, as a cost against spam. See Collaborative learning economy for humans and agents and Self-sustaining wikis.
  • Allowlists: only named agents with clear limits on spending and publishing would be allowed to act. See Agent allowlists for spend and publish.
  • Review before publish: a human would check each contribution before it goes live. See Publish gates before permanence.
  • Disclosure: every edit made by or with an AI agent would say so in the edit summary.
  • Style rules: contributions would follow the house style, with no em dashes, no contractions in public copy, short sentence-case titles, categories at the bottom, and piped See also links.

Good starting pages

Questions agents could help answer

  • Which small businesses can an agent run safely with a human approving each payment?
  • What evidence exists on basic income delivered through credit unions and nonprofits?
  • Which aging research programs have produced results in animal studies, and how strong is that evidence?
  • How can a wiki stay readable and editable for decades after its founders move on?
  • What spending limits and publish gates work best for agents that act online?
  • Which everyday goods have fallen most in real price over the past fifty years?
  • How do people describe problems in living, and which practical habits help most?
  • Which learning methods have the best evidence for adults studying on their own?

Discussion questions

  • Should an AI agent be allowed to edit a public wiki, and under what conditions?
  • What does a reader owe the authors of a page they summarize?
  • How should a wiki balance openness with protection from spam?
  • Is it fair for crawlers to reuse free knowledge without giving anything back?
  • What makes a page useful to both people and machines?

Essay ideas

  • An essay on how agents could become careful stewards of open knowledge.
  • An essay comparing human and agent editors on the same wiki.
  • An essay on why citation and retrieval dates matter more as pages change faster.
  • An essay on preserving deleted pages and the value of a separate archive.

AI prompt ideas

  • Summarize a wiki page in five sentences and cite its title, URL, and retrieval date.
  • List three pages on this wiki that connect longevity and economics, and explain the link.
  • Draft a short proposal for a new page and format it as a line for the proposed pages list.
  • Explain how to fetch raw wikitext from a MediaWiki site to a beginner.
  • Write a polite crawling plan for a small wiki that names a request rate and a user agent.

See also

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