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Inside a knowledge card.

A Sourcipedia article is not a wiki entry, an essay, or a chat answer. It is a structured knowledge card: a title, a distilled summary, a set of related concepts, and a vetted source list — all produced by the same research engine that powers ResearchAnything.

§ 01Anatomy of a card

Every card has four parts, in this order:

Title

The canonical name of the topic. A card has exactly one title; alternate names and translations live in metadata, not as separate cards.

Summary

The body of the article. Written from the sources, not from model recall — every claim in the summary was admissible against the source list at the time the card was built. Length is bounded; a Sourcipedia card is a knowledge card, not a textbook chapter. For a long-form treatment, see ResearchAnything.ai.

Related concepts

Each card is tagged with the concepts it touches — adjacent topics, prerequisites, and natural follow-ups. The concept layer is what knits the corpus into a graph rather than a flat list of articles. Following concepts is how you move from "what is this" to "what surrounds it."

Sources

The list of citations admitted into the card. Each source carries its title, publisher, and an outbound link. Sourcipedia does not host source content; the links go to the original publication.

TipThe source list is not just decoration. The summary was built from these sources, so if a claim looks surprising, the right move is to open the corresponding citation and verify it directly.

Every card has a permanent URL at /article/:id. The id is stable: it does not change when the card is refreshed, retitled, or re-sourced. A bookmark today still resolves to the freshest version of the same topic next month.

Permalinks survive updates because the card is the unit of identity, not the source list. Sources can be added or replaced over the life of a card without invalidating the URL.

§ 03How the corpus grows

Cards are not hand-authored. The corpus grows through three channels, all running upstream of Sourcipedia in the research engine.

The auto-generator

A background worker continuously proposes topics and turns them into cards. Proposals are drawn from incoming queries, the concept graph (filling in adjacent topics for cards that already exist), and a Wikipedia ingest that seeds the long tail.

Contributions from research runs

A long-form ResearchAnything run produces vetted sources that are folded back into the corpus. A complete report does not just answer one user's question; it leaves a trail of admissible sources that future cards can draw from.

Wikipedia ingest

A periodic ingest of Wikipedia titles and metadata gives the corpus a topic surface to expand against. Wikipedia is not the source — the auto-generator goes out and finds primary sources of its own. The ingest is a list of things to know about, not a list of facts to quote.

§ 04How cards update

Cards are refreshed in place. When the corpus learns something new about a topic — a fresh source admitted, a related concept added, a stale citation deprecated — the card is rebuilt and the permalink continues to point at the latest version.

The card carries a "last updated" timestamp so readers can see when it last changed. Older versions are not exposed on the public surface; Sourcipedia presents the current best summary, not a history of edits.

§ 05Quality guarantees

Every claim is traceable

The summary is generated from the source list in one pass. Any claim that did not have source support is dropped at synthesis time. There is no separate "fact-check" step because there is nothing to fact-check after the fact — the sources gated admission up front.

Sources are screened

Citations go through the same dedup, low-quality screening, and credibility scoring as a ResearchAnything run. Sources below threshold do not enter the card.

Scope is bounded

A card answers one topic. It does not branch into adjacent fields, opinion, or speculation. If a related topic is interesting, it gets its own card — and a link from this one.

CautionSourcipedia is built from public, citable sources. Topics where the public record is thin will produce shorter cards or no card at all — and the right move is to read what does exist, not to assume the system is wrong.

§ 06What a card is not

§ 07Where to go next