Every piece of content has exactly one canonical home. The Main namespace holds two reader-facing page types: person pages and episode pages. For non-reader-facing content (talk pages, task logs, source documentation), see Namespaces.
Person
Namespace: Main (e.g. Jane Doe)
The encyclopedic article about a person. Written in documentary voice: third person, past tense, factual. The person page is a hub that links out to episode pages and other related content.
What belongs here:
- Biographical details (family, education, career, personality, interests)
- Chronological arc of the connection with the wiki owner, summarized not exhaustive
- Key statistics (message counts, date ranges, volume breakdowns)
- Links to episode pages for detailed stories
- Media embeds (photos, audio, video) that serve the biography directly
- Source citations
What does NOT belong here:
- Full voice note transcriptions (these live on episode pages or the talk page)
- Raw research process notes (these go on the talk page)
- Detailed retellings of specific episodes (these get their own pages)
Lead paragraph convention
Keep it tight and neutral. Biographical identity first, relationship to the wiki owner in one sentence, the arc in one more sentence. Save statistics for the statistics section. No emotional framing.
Jane Doe (born 3 May 1997) is a Berlin-based photographer and former classmate. She and the wiki owner exchanged 6,200 Instagram DMs between March 2021 and May 2022, the largest one-on-one thread in the archive. They connected over film photography, collaborated on a zine, and met in person in Berlin in November 2021. The conversation faded after Jane moved to Tokyo in early 2022.
Blockquote discipline
Only quote when the exact words matter more than the information: confessions, turning points, self-descriptions that can't be paraphrased without losing the voice. The count varies by person. Someone who speaks in measured paragraphs may need fewer quotes than someone whose personality lives in their phrasing. Let paraphrasing carry the rest, but don't paraphrase away the texture.
Episode references
When the chronological arc mentions a story that has its own episode page, summarize it in one sentence and link out:
On 14 August, Jane described a disastrous shoot at Tempelhof
in a series of five voice notes (see [[Jane and the Tempelhof Disaster]]).
Episode
Naming: {Person} and the {Episode Title} (e.g. Jane and the Tempelhof Disaster)
A self-contained page for a specific story, event, or extended narrative told through messages or voice notes. Episodes are the texture of the wiki. They capture what it was like to know someone, not just the arc of the relationship.
What belongs here:
- Full contextual setup (what was happening that day, what prompted the story)
- The story itself, told with appropriate detail
- All relevant voice note transcriptions, inline with context
- Audio/video embeds for the voice notes and media involved
- Surrounding messages that frame the episode
- Links back to the person page and to other related episodes
What an episode page should feel like: Reading one should feel like being shown a specific memory. It has a beginning, middle, and end. It's the wiki equivalent of "okay so let me tell you about the time..."
When to create an episode page: A good candidate is any narrative sequence involving 3+ voice notes telling a connected story, or a sustained back-and-forth about a specific event that would take more than two paragraphs to tell properly.
Source citations: Each episode page should cite the specific message snapshot, message range, and voice note numbers it draws from.