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The open encyclopedia of artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence moves faster than the documentation that explains it. Serious definitions are scattered across research papers, vendor blogs and discussion threads, mostly in English and rarely current. WikiAI gathers that knowledge in one place.

Public and freeFrench and EnglishPeer reviewed
The problem

Documentation that has not kept up

In three years, artificial intelligence moved from the laboratory into daily professional life. The vocabulary followed: RAG, agents, MCP, fine-tuning, quantization. Every week brings one more model, one more tool, one more acronym.

The documentation has not followed. What exists is split between research papers unreadable by non-specialists, posts published by the vendors themselves — judge and jury at once — and discussion threads whose shelf life is measured in days. Most of it is in English, and much of it is already out of date by the time you read it.

The result: a student, a teacher or an executive who wants to understand what a large language model actually is, what the EU AI Act changes, or what the word "agent" really covers has no neutral, reliable place to start.

The product

What WikiAI is

WikiAI is a public, free and collaborative encyclopedia devoted entirely to artificial intelligence. One place to look up a definition, understand an architecture, compare models, place a market player or check what a regulation actually says.

The model is a wiki: pages written and reviewed by a qualified community, versioned, correctable, citable. What differs is the scope — one domain, treated in depth — and the qualification of the contributors.

Content

How the content is organised

Around 250 pages across thirteen broad domains.

DomainContents
FundamentalsDefinitions, history, the AI winters and springs, an A-to-Z glossary
Machine learningSupervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning, data preparation, evaluation
Deep learningNeural networks, CNNs, RNNs, Transformers, generative models, emerging architectures
Large language modelsHow they work, a model landscape, training, prompting, RAG, agents, deployment
Computer visionClassification, detection, segmentation, image and video generation, multimodality
Natural language processingTasks, embeddings, speech processing
MLOps and infrastructureFrom notebook to production: experiment tracking, deployment, monitoring, platforms
Tools and frameworksPyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, LangChain, vector databases, annotation
Application sectorsHealth, finance, education, industry, transport, energy, legal, creative work, cybersecurity
EcosystemTech giants, startups, European players, laboratories, conferences, careers
Ethics and regulationBias, privacy, deepfakes, environmental impact, the EU AI Act, international standards
MathematicsLinear algebra, probability, calculus, information theory
Research and trendsState of the art, frontiers, foundational papers, learning resources
Reading

Three levels, four paths

Every page carries an explicit level — beginner, intermediate, advanced — so a reader knows straight away whether the content is within reach. The spread aims for balance: roughly 37% of pages need no prerequisites, 50% are intermediate, 13% advanced. Four reading paths guide newcomers by intent.

I am discovering AI

From the fundamentals to the basics of prompting, with no technical prerequisites.

I want to practise

From Python to deploying RAG applications and agents.

I want to go deep

From the mathematics to the research papers.

I am a decision-maker

Sector uses, ethics, regulation, a map of the market.

Languages

Bilingual by construction

Every page exists in French and in English, under two distinct paths. French is not a late translation of the English: both versions are treated as content in their own right. It is a direct answer to a very real imbalance — most quality AI documentation exists today only in English.

Contributors

Who writes

Editing rights are not open to everyone. They are reserved for four groups.

  • Researchers in artificial intelligence and related disciplines.

  • Teachers in universities and colleges.

  • Students in the relevant programmes.

  • Professionals: leaders of AI-specialised companies, and leaders of companies embedding AI in their services.

This choice is structural: it sets the bar at the door rather than trying to claw it back through moderation.

Quality

Peer review

Quality rests on a process drawn from academia and from code review: a submitted page goes to a reviewer assigned by expertise, who approves it, requests changes or declines it, before publication.

A mentoring programme supports new contributors through their first pages.

AI serving the wiki

WikiAI uses what it explains

Conversational search

Ask a question in plain language and get a synthesised answer built from the wiki's own content, with links to the source pages.

Automatic summaries

A summary at the top of long articles, to decide in ten seconds whether the page answers the need.

Reading suggestions

Related pages, popular pages by section, coherent reading sequences.

Every generated answer cites its sources. On a subject where models readily invent, traceability is not optional.

Community

Recognising those who write

A wiki lives only through the people who write it.

  • Public author profiles, with expertise and contributions.

  • Reactions and quality signals on pages.

  • A contributor ranking and progression badges.

  • Subscriptions to an author or a section, and a weekly newsletter of new publications.

Technical

The technical choices

WikiAI runs on Wiki.js, a proven open-source wiki platform whose core is left untouched — that is what keeps it compatible with upstream updates. Two in-house services sit alongside it: an engagement API in Node.js for the community features, and an intelligence service in Python for conversational search, recommendations and summaries. A shared PostgreSQL database, a pgvector index, and an interface in light and dark themes.

Publisher

A NOVYUP product

WikiAI is published and operated by NOVYUP, an independent publisher of digital platforms.

At a glance
Business modelA public, free encyclopedia, published and funded by NOVYUP.
Target marketStudents, teachers, researchers, professionals and decision-makers, in French as well as English.
Current stageUnder construction — content architecture, visual identity, permission model and technical architecture are defined; rollout is planned in four phases.
TechnologiesWiki.jsNode.jsPythonPostgreSQLpgvector

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