Guide
How to Build a Wiki From Your Reading That Cites Its Sources
To build a wiki from your reading that cites its sources, start from material you have actually saved, write each page from those sources, and attach every claim to the passage that supports it. In Noeis, you ask for a page on a topic, the Thought partner drafts it from your Library, and each claim carries numbered citations you can open to see the source title, the supporting passage, and a link back to where it came from.
The point is not a prettier archive. A wiki built this way lets you reread a claim months later and check it in one click, instead of trusting a summary you can no longer trace.
How this guide was produced
Written by Athan Tsokolas, Founder, Noeis.
This guide describes how wiki pages are built and cited in Noeis today: the build request, the citation popover, the evidence check that runs on each build, and the controls for adding sources by hand.
Where Noeis declines to do something, such as drafting a page with no direct source in your Library, the guide says so.
Direct answer
A reading wiki is useful when every claim can be traced to a passage you saved.
Build pages from your own saved articles and highlights, keep the citation on each claim, and let the page say plainly when a claim has no source or when a source disagrees.
- Start from sources already in your Library.
- Open any cited claim to see the passage and return to the source.
- Treat unsupported or conflicted claims as open work, not finished pages.
Why a reading wiki needs citations
Most personal wikis start strong and decay. A page gets written from memory, the memory drifts, and a year later the page states things with confidence that no source you saved ever said. The page still looks authoritative, which makes the drift harder to notice.
Claim
A wiki page you cannot check against its sources slowly turns into a record of what you thought you read.
Evidence
- Summaries lose the qualifications that made the original argument careful.
- Without a link to the passage, you cannot tell a faithful compression from an invention.
- Disagreement between sources disappears when a page states one view as settled.
Why this matters
Citations keep the page reviewable. You can reopen the passage, see whether it still supports the claim, and revise the page when it does not.
Start from what you have actually saved
A cited wiki can only be as good as the reading underneath it. Before building a page, save the articles you want it to draw on and highlight the passages that carry the argument. Highlights matter because they mark the exact sentences you found worth keeping, and a highlight's margin note records why.
- Save the articles on the topic to your Library, or import an existing reading archive.
- Highlight the passages that define, argue, or give evidence.
- Open the wiki and ask for a page on the topic, for example "Build a page on base rates in forecasting."
- Let the Thought partner draft the page from your Library, then read it with the citations open.
Noeis checks for evidence before it drafts. If nothing in your Library directly explains the topic, the build stops with a message that no direct Library source explains it, and it may name the closest material you do have. That refusal is deliberate: a page built from nothing would have nothing to cite.
If you want a page that tracks an open question instead of summarizing settled material, choose Living thesis instead of Page. You give it a governing question, and no conclusion or claims are drafted for you.
How each claim points back to a passage
Each claim on a built page carries numbered citations that refer to the sources attached to that page. Hover over or focus a cited claim and a small popover opens, in the style of a Wikipedia footnote.
What the popover shows
Each cited source appears with its number, its title, and the passage that supports the claim. For sources from your Library, an Open in Library link takes you to the saved article. Where the source has an original web address, an Open original link opens it in a new tab.
How support is labeled
Every claim carries one of a few plain labels: Supported when it is grounded in your Library, Partial support when only one source partly backs it, No source when it was written without an attached source, and Conflicted when a source in your Library disagrees. Sources that contradict a claim are listed under their own heading rather than mixed in with the support.
What happens when a draft overreaches
AI drafting has a known failure: when the sources run thin, the model fills the gap with plausible sentences. Noeis runs an evidence check on each build to catch that. Sentences that have no anchor in the evidence their section cites are flagged, along with generic filler headings and sentences repeated across sections.
The evidence step reports its result. A page that clears it is reported as having reached the evidence bar. A page that does not is reported as needing stronger evidence before it can be trusted, rather than quietly presented as finished, and a failing draft may be rebuilt with stricter source and quality checks.
Uncited AI summary
Reads smoothly, cannot be checked, and gives no sign of which sentences came from a source and which were filled in.
Cited Noeis wiki page
Each claim names its sources, shows its support level, and links to the passage, so weak claims are visible instead of hidden.
Keep the page honest as your reading grows
A reading wiki is never finished. New reading confirms some claims, complicates others, and occasionally overturns one. The page should change with it.
- Attach sources by hand: an article, a highlight, a notebook page, a concept, or a question.
- Every attached or removed source is recorded in the page's revision history, so you can see how the page changed.
- Ask a question about the page and read the answer against its attached sources.
- Download any page as Markdown when you want a copy outside Noeis.
FAQ
How do I build a wiki from my reading?
Save the articles and highlights you want to build from, then ask for a wiki page on a topic. In Noeis, the Thought partner drafts the page from your Library and attaches numbered citations to each claim so you can check the passage behind it.
Can Noeis build a wiki page about a topic I have not read about?
No. If no source in your Library directly explains the topic, Noeis declines to draft the page, tells you so, and may point to the closest material you have. Add or import a direct source first.
What does a citation on a wiki claim show?
Opening a cited claim shows a support label, each cited source with its title and passage, and links to open the source in your Library or the original page. Sources that contradict the claim are listed separately.
What happens if the AI writes a claim my sources do not support?
Each build runs an evidence check that flags sentences with no anchor in the sources they cite. A page that falls short is marked as needing stronger evidence instead of being presented as finished, and a claim with no attached source is labeled No source.
Can I add sources to a wiki page myself?
Yes. You can attach an article, highlight, notebook page, concept, or question to a page. Each change is recorded in the page's revision history.