Details About This Wiki

What this is

A discovery wiki built from the OGM Wiki — a Massive Wiki with 653 markdown files spanning OGM's bootstrap, culture, stewardship, structure, projects, meetings, and Jerry Michalski's Nuggets corpus.

The source wiki is rich but flat: 26 top-level folders, files mostly siloed by category, with attempts at indexing (e.g., Meeting Index.md) but no systematic surfacing of recurring concepts, under-developed pages, or quiet contributors.

This wiki adds a discovery layer: hubs, themes, people index, project index, and several "minority signal" pages (Orphan Gems, Hidden Substance, etc.) that highlight what the source's structure tends to hide.

Why a separate repo

Three reasons:

Different audience contract. Source ogm-wiki is contributor-edited, multi-voice, sprawling. This wiki is a curated, derived index — a different writing register.
Reversibility. Source pages don't change. If the synthesis here gets something wrong, it's fixed here without touching authoritative content.
Readability. A 653-page wiki is hard to walk through. ~100 derived pages with strong navigation makes the corpus tractable for newcomers and for OGM members who want to find non-obvious threads.

Two tiers in the source

The source has a strong skew: 435 of 653 files (~67%) are under Projects/Jerry's Nuggets/ — an embedded sub-wiki of Jerry Michalski's curated material from his Brain.

This wiki treats the source as two tiers:

Tier A — OGM-as-community wiki (~218 files): Bootstrap, Culture, Stewardship, Structure, Topics, Operations, Meetings, People, Organizations, Projects (excl. Nuggets), Blogs, Brain, Ideas, Information Tools, etc. Tier A is the primary subject of this minipedia.
Tier B — Jerry's Nuggets (435 files): linked from Tier A but treated as its own corpus. See Jerry's Nuggets Pointer. Full discovery layer for Tier B is a planned later phase.

Tier A material is what's covered in Themes Hub, People Hub, Projects Hub, and the Discovery pages.

How it was made

Built with Claude Code (Opus 4.7) by bg-Freya Wyvern, Pete Kaminski's chief-of-staff agent running in parallel. Method:

Corpus map — extracted file metadata, frontmatter, headings, and the wikilink graph for all 653 source files. Output: corpus-map.json (in the build session, not published).
Discovery signals — derived from the corpus map: inbound link counts, body-vs-link outliers, true orphans (linked-to but missing), heading-frequency theme candidates, lone-author contributions. Output: discovery-signals.json (also build-only).
Synthesis — Claude read each Tier A folder and produced derived pages: themes, people summaries, project summaries, hub pages, and the Discovery section.
Attribution — every derived page lists its source files. Where a source page has clear authorship (frontmatter author: or the Blogs/ convention), the contributor is named. The synthesis itself is AI-generated and not authoritative — it's a navigation aid, not a replacement.

Conventions

Wikilinks: [[Page Name]] standard, same as source.
Source pointers: every derived page has a "Source" footer like OGM Culture/OGM Values.md. Multi-source pages list all sources.
Voice attribution: when a derived page draws heavily on one contributor's voice or framing, the page leads with "Drawing on Contributor Name's framing" — both as a courtesy and to make the synthesis falsifiable.
Disclaimers: pages with thin source material include a "Note: under-developed in source" disclaimer.
File naming: capitalize, use spaces, no slashes or other forbidden FS chars (Massive Wiki convention).

Limitations

Synthesis bias. Claude has a default voice and a tendency to flatten distinctive framings into generic ones. We mitigate by quoting source material directly when possible and by attributing voice. We don't always succeed. Corrections welcome.
Snapshot. This wiki reflects ogm-wiki at the time of build (see Source Index for the source commit hash). Source updates require a re-build.
Tier B is shallow. Jerry's Nuggets has its own discovery layer pending; for now we point into it but don't index it.
People extraction is best-effort. Names mentioned in passing get captured; names in transcripts (Zoom chat lines) may be missed.

Contributing

This wiki is generated, but corrections are very welcome:

If a synthesis page gets something wrong, file an issue or PR at the ogm-wiki-wiki repo.
If you want a topic, person, or thread covered better, open an issue with a pointer to source material.
For canonical content, edit the source ogm-wiki — that's where authoritative changes live.

OGM Wiki — the source.
Open Global Mind — the community.
Call Wiki / Minipedia method — the broader pattern this is an instance of (this is a "Structured Content Wiki" variant: input is an existing wiki rather than a call's artifacts).
Massive Wiki — the wiki engine.
MarkPub — the static-site generator used to publish.