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Welcome to SpocWiki
Building the Framework for universal, personal Knowledge-Webs.
SpocWiki is a collaborative initiative to provide high-quality, shared public Wiki-Data.
We bridge the gap between massive research platforms like Wikipedia and the need for structured, private, and maintainable personal knowledge bases.
Whether you are using Obsidian, TiddlyWiki, or a custom system, SpocWiki provides the modular building blocks — from geography to the sciences — to jumpstart your own "Memex."
🚀 Why SpocWiki?
While Wikipedia is an incredible resource, integrating it into a personal vault is often difficult due to rigid standards, consensus delays, and privacy needs.
SpocWiki exists to give you the best of both worlds:
- Platform-Agnostic: Built primarily in Markdown with YAML frontmatter.
- Modular Growth: A "plug-and-play" repository structure. Don't need all of Europe? Just grab the countries or states you care about.
- Data-Rich: Includes
.svg,.png,.geoJson, and.csvfiles for a visual and analytical experience. - Structured Freedom: Optimized for Obsidian but designed to work with any Markdown-based Tool.
🌳 The _Standards Repository
Everything we do is structured by our primary repository: 👉 SpocWiki/_Standards
This repository contains the global metadata, best practices, and semantic vocabularies that ensure all SpocWiki repositories remain interoperable and extensible.
You can retrieve additional, nested Repositories by clicking convenient Shell Commands in the corresponding Folders.
See the full 🌿Repository Tree Structure
🗺️ How it Works: Breadth over Depth
We focus on providing factual, unbiased Reference-Data. To keep performance high on mobile devices, we use a recursive sub-repository system:
_Standards: Covers high-level concepts and country-level stubs.- Regional Repos: (e.g.,
Europe-Germany) Provide deeper national data. - Local Repos: (e.g.,
Germany-Bayern) Provide granular regional details.
Tip
To expand your knowledge-web, simply clone a detail repository into a folder named after the corresponding stub article in your parent vault!
There are batch-Files you can simply double-click to retrieve each sub-repository.
🛠️ Our Conventions
To ensure our data never breaks, we adhere to some conventions in File-Names :
- No Spaces: We prefer
Kebab-CaseandSnake_Caseto prevent URL escaping issues.- Wherever possibly we use the Name of the corresponding Wikipedia Article.
- We adhere to the Wikipedia conventions to
- avoid these characters
#,{,},[,], and| - omit Articles starting with "The"
- avoid these characters
- Unique Names: We avoid duplicate filenames to ensure clear linking across disjoint repositories
- except for the conventional ReadMe.md at each Repository Root.
- Use a common Character Set
- Disambiguation can be achieved in multiple ways:
- Append a qualifier, separated by Comma like
London,Ontario - Append a qualifier in Parentheses like
Mercury(Planet) - Prepend the Parent Category, separated by Tilde like
Database~Schema
- Append a qualifier, separated by Comma like
- No
primary Topic: each of the Documents with the same name must be disambiguated.- This reduces the likelihood of wrong links
- Use
aliases:in the FrontMatter YAML to improve Searching and provide all ambiguous Matches- Duplicates in Aliases are encouraged (in reasonable amount).
- Spaces and otherwise disallowed characters are allowed in Aliases
- Multi-lingual Aliases in any script are encouraged to improve discoverability
- Central Renames: Renaming can only be done centrally, because all Links need to be updated.
- this can only be ensured by handling all Sub-Repositories consistently, which only few Users do.
- Semantic Data: We use common, readable YAML attributes like
has_time_startedandaliasesto make data queryable.
🤝 Join the Mission
SpocWiki is a shared resource. We welcome Pull Requests that improve data accuracy or expand our coverage.
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Contribute: Please read our Contributing Guidelines first.
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License: Our content is compatible with Wikipedia/Wikidata (CC BY-SA) to ensure free exchange of information. See License.
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Storage: Large media files are kept in the
xLargerepository to keep your local clones lean.
Ready to start? Explore the _Standards Repository and begin building your knowledge-web today.
Repository Tree Structure
Below is the intended Nesting Tree of the current Repositories when all are retrieved. We recommend to retrieve Repositories only when needed, because e.g. Obsidian can handle only ca. 30_000 Files. All Leaf Folders (non-bracketed) in this Diagram are Repositories.
└── 📜 _Standards
├── 🌐 WikiData
├── 🔭 (Astronomy)
│ └── ☄️ (Star)
│ └── ⭐ Stars
├── 🧬 (bio)
│ └── 🗝️ (bio~Domain)
│ └── 🧪 (Eukarya)
│ └── 🐾 (Animal)
│ └── ⚖️ (Bilateria)
│ ├── 🐜 (Arthropoda)
│ │ └── 🕷️ (Hexapoda)
│ │ └── 🐝 (Insect)
│ │ └── 🦋 Pterygota
│ └── 🐚 (Deutero)
│ └── 🦴 (Chordata)
│ └── 🧠 (Craniata)
│ └── 🐟 (Vertebrata)
│ └── 👄 (Gnath)
│ ├── 🐠 Actinopterygii
│ └── 🐸 (Sarc)
│ └── 🦎 (Tetrapods)
│ └── 🦅 (Bird)
│ └── 🐧 Neornithes
└── 🌍 (Earth)
└── 🗺️ (Continent)
├── 🌊 Oceania
├── 🦁 (Africa)
│ ├── 🦒 (Africa~Central)
│ │ ├── 🇧🇮 Burundi
│ │ ├── 🇨🇲 Cameroon
│ │ ├── 🇨🇫 Central_African_Rep
│ │ ├── 🇹🇩 Chad
│ │ ├── 🇨🇬 Congo~Brazzaville
│ │ ├── 🇨🇩 Congo~Kinshasa
│ │ ├── 🇬🇶 Equatorial_Guinea
│ │ ├── 🇬🇦 Gabon
│ │ ├── 🇳🇪 Niger
│ │ ├── 🇳🇬 Nigeria
│ │ ├── 🇷🇼 Rwanda
│ │ ├── 🇸🇹 Sao_Tome_and_Principe
│ │ ├── 🇺🇬 Uganda
│ │ └── 🇿🇲 Zambia
│ ├── 🐘 (Africa~East)
│ │ ├── 🏝️ British_Indian_Ocean_Territory
│ │ ├── 🇰🇲 Comoros
│ │ ├── 🇩🇯 Djibouti
│ │ ├── 🇪🇷 Eritrea
│ │ ├── 🇪🇹 Ethiopia
│ │ ├── 🇰🇪 Kenya
│ │ ├── 🇲🇬 Madagascar
│ │ ├── 🇲🇼 Malawi
│ │ ├── 🌋 (Mascarene-Islands)
│ │ │ ├── 🇲🇺 Mauritius
│ │ │ └── 🇷🇪 Reunion
│ │ ├── 🇾🇹 Mayotte
│ │ ├── 🇲🇿 Mozambique
│ │ ├── 🇸🇨 Seychelles
│ │ ├── 🇸🇴 Somalia
│ │ ├── 🇸🇲 Somaliland
│ │ ├── Nile (Sudan)
│ │ │ ├── 🇸🇩 Sudan~North
│ │ │ └── 🇸🇸 Sudan~South
│ │ └── 🇹🇿 Tanzania
│ ├── 🏜️ (Africa~North)
│ │ ├── 🇩🇿 Algeria
│ │ ├── 🇪🇬 Egypt
│ │ ├── 🇱🇾 Libya
│ │ ├── 🇲🇦 Morocco
│ │ └── 🇹🇳 Tunisia
│ ├── 🇿🇦 (Africa~South)
│ │ ├── 🇦🇴 Angola
│ │ ├── 🇧🇼 Botswana
│ │ ├── 🇱🇸 Lesotho
│ │ ├── 🇳🇦 Namibia
│ │ ├── 🇿🇦 South_Africa
│ │ ├── 🇸🇿 Swaziland
│ │ └── 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
│ └── 🌅 (Africa~West)
│ ├── 🇧🇯 Benin
│ ├── 🇧🇫 Burkina_Faso
│ ├── 🇨🇻 Cape_Verde
│ ├── 🇨🇮 Cote_d'ivoire
│ ├── 🇬🇲 Gambia
│ ├── 🇬🇭 Ghana
│ ├── 🇬🇳 Guinea
│ ├── 🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau
│ ├── 🇱🇷 Liberia
│ ├── 🇲🇱 Mali
│ ├── 🇲🇷 Mauritania
│ ├── 🇸🇳 Senegal
│ ├── 🇸🇱 Sierra_Leone
│ ├── 🇹🇬 Togo
│ ├── ⚓ Tristan_da_Cunha-Islands
│ └── 🏜️ Western_Sahara
├── 🏖️ America~Caribbean
├── 🗿 (America~Central)
│ ├── 🇧🇿 Belize
│ ├── 🇨🇷 Costa_Rica
│ ├── 🇸🇻 El_Salvador
│ ├── 🇬🇹 Guatemala
│ ├── 🇭🇳 Honduras
│ ├── 🇲🇽 Mexico
│ ├── 🇳🇮 Nicaragua
│ └── 🇵🇦 Panama
├── 🍁 (America~North)
│ ├── 🇨🇦 Canada
│ ├── 🇫🇷 Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
│ └── 🦅 (USA)
│ ├── 🗽 USA~5-Eastern
│ ├── 🌽 USA~6-Central
│ ├── 🏔️ USA~7-Mountain
│ └── 🌉 USA~8-Pacific
├── 💃 (America~South)
│ ├── 🏔️ (Andes)
│ │ ├── 🇧🇴 Bolivia
│ │ ├── 🇨🇴 Colombia
│ │ ├── 🇪🇨 Ecuador
│ │ ├── 🇵🇪 Peru
│ │ └── 🇻🇪 Venezuela
│ ├── 🇧🇷 Brazil
│ ├── 🇫🇰 Falkland~Islands
│ ├── 🌳 (Guianas)
│ │ ├── 🇬🇫 French_Guiana
│ │ ├── 🇬🇾 Guyana
│ │ └── 🇸🇷 Suriname
│ └── 🧉 (Southern_Cone)
│ ├── 🇦🇷 Argentina
│ ├── 🇨🇱 Chile
│ ├── 🇵🇾 Paraguay
│ └── 🇺🇾 Uruguay
├── ❄️ Antarctica
├── 🐨 (Australasia)
│ ├── 🇦🇺 Australia
│ ├── 🇳🇨 New_Caledonia
│ └── 🇳🇿 New_Zealand
├── 🏰 (Europe
│ ├── ⛪ (Europe~Central)
│ │ ├── 🇦🇹 Austria
│ │ ├── 🇭🇷 Croatia
│ │ ├── 🇨🇿 Czech_Republic
│ │ ├── 🇩🇪 Germany
│ │ ├── 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein
│ │ ├── 🇸🇰 Slovakia
│ │ ├── 🇸🇮 Slovenia
│ │ └── 🇨🇭 Switzerland
│ ├── ☦️ (Europe~East)
│ │ ├── 🇧🇾 Belarus
│ │ ├── 🇧🇬 Bulgaria
│ │ ├── 🇬🇪 Georgia,Europe
│ │ ├── 🇭🇺 Hungary
│ │ ├── 🇲🇩 Moldova
│ │ ├── 🇵🇱 Poland
│ │ ├── 🇷🇴 Romania
│ │ ├── 🇷🇺 Russia
│ │ ├── 🇹🇷 Turkey
│ │ └── 🇺🇦 Ukraine
│ ├── 🌲 (Europe~North)
│ │ ├── 🇩🇰 Denmark
│ │ ├── 🇪🇪 Estonia
│ │ ├── 🇫🇮 Finland
│ │ ├── 🇬🇱 Greenland
│ │ ├── 🇮🇸 Iceland
│ │ ├── 🇮🇪 Ireland
│ │ ├── 🇱🇻 Latvia
│ │ ├── 🇱🇹 Lithuania
│ │ ├── 🇳🇴 Norway
│ │ ├── 🇸🇪 Sweden
│ │ └── 🇬🇧 UK
│ ├── ☀️ (Europe~South)
│ │ ├── 🇦🇱 Albania
│ │ ├── 🇦🇩 Andorra
│ │ ├── 🇧🇦 Bosnia-Herzegovina
│ │ ├── 🇨🇾 Cyprus
│ │ ├── 🇬🇷 Greece
│ │ ├── 🇮🇹 Italy
│ │ ├── 🇽🇰 Kosovo
│ │ ├── 🇲🇰 Macedonia~North
│ │ ├── 🇲🇹 Malta
│ │ ├── 🇲🇪 Montenegro
│ │ ├── 🇵🇹 Portugal
│ │ ├── 🇸🇲 San_Marino
│ │ ├── 🇷🇸 Serbia
│ │ └── 🇪🇸 Spain
│ └── 🍇 (Europe~West)
│ ├── 🇧🇪 Belgium
│ ├── 🇫🇷 France
│ ├── 🇱🇺 Luxembourg
│ ├── 🇲🇨 Monaco
│ └── 🇳🇱 Netherlands
└── 🐉 (Asia
├── 🏇 (Asia~Central)
│ ├── 🇦🇫 Afghanistan
│ ├── 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
│ ├── 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan
│ ├── 🇹🇯 Tajikistan
│ ├── 🇹🇲 Turkmenistan
│ └── 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan
├── 🏮 (Asia~East)
│ ├── 🇨🇳 China
│ ├── 🇯🇵 Japan
│ ├── ⛩️ (Korean_Peninsula
│ │ ├── 🇰🇵 Korea~North
│ │ └── 🇰🇷 Korea~South
│ ├── 🇲🇳 Mongolia
│ └── 🇹🇼 Taiwan
├── 🧊 Asia~North
├── 🏔️ (Asia~North~West)
│ ├── 🇦🇲 Armenia
│ └── 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
├── 🍜 (Asia~South~East)
│ ├── 🇰🇭 Cambodia
│ ├── 🇱🇦 Laos
│ ├── 🥥 (Malay_Archipelago)
│ │ ├── 🇮🇩 Indonesia
│ │ ├── 🇲🇾 Malaysia
│ │ ├── 🇵🇬 Papua-New_Guinea
│ │ ├── 🇵🇭 Philippines
│ │ ├── 🇸🇬 Singapore
│ │ └── 🌅 (Timor)
│ │ └── 🇹🇱 Timor-Leste
│ ├── 🇲🇲 Myanmar
│ ├── 🇹🇭 Thailand
│ └── 🇻🇳 Vietnam
├── 🕌 (Asia~West)
│ ├── 🇧🇭 Bahrain
│ ├── 🇮🇷 Iran
│ ├── 🇮🇶 Iraq
│ ├── 🇮🇱 Israel
│ ├── 🇯🇴 Jordan
│ ├── 🇰🇼 Kuwait
│ ├── 🇱🇧 Lebanon
│ ├── 🇴🇲 Oman
│ ├── 🇶🇦 Qatar
│ ├── 🇸🇦 Saudi_Arabia
│ ├── 🇸🇾 Syria
│ ├── 🇦🇪 United_Arab_Emirates
│ └── 🇾🇪 Yemen~Republic
└── 🐯 (Indian_Subcontinent)
├── 🇧🇩 Bangladesh
├── 🇧🇹 Bhutan
├── 🇮🇳 India
├── 🇲🇻 Maldives
├── 🇳🇵 Nepal
├── 🇵🇰 Pakistan
└── 🇱🇰 Sri_Lanka