Based on Karpathy’s “LLM Wiki” pattern — AI-maintained, persistent, compounding knowledge base.
Ready for first ingest pass: research catalog (46 datasets) + maps inventory (80 maps).
2026-04-05 — First Ingest
Ingested 46 research catalog sources → 46 source pages in wiki/sources/
Ingested 80 maps from Google Sheets inventory → 80 map pages in wiki/maps/
Created 4 period overview pages (wiki/periods/)
manhattan-12000bc.md — Paleo period
manhattan-1609.md — Lenape Mannahatta
manhattan-1664.md — Dutch Colonial / New Amsterdam
manhattan-1776.md — Revolutionary War
Updated index.md (130 total pages)
All pages cross-referenced to period overviews
Map pages include: year, cartographer, source institution, digital URL, significance
Source pages include: provenance, type, time coverage, license, tags, description
2026-04-05 — Second Ingest (Buildings, Places, People, Events, Concepts)
35 building pages from PostGIS 1776_nyc_parcels_buildings (16 destroyed in Great Fire)
10 place pages: Bowling Green, Fort Amsterdam, Wall Street, Broad Street, Broadway, Pearl Street, The Battery, Collect Pond, Hanover Square, The Common
6 people pages: Peter Stuyvesant, Peter Minuit, George Washington, William Howe, Nathan Hale, Adriaen van der Donck
5 event pages: Great Fire of 1776, British Surrender 1664, Battle of Brooklyn, Declaration Read, British Evacuation
5 concept pages: Dutch Colonial Architecture, Manhattan Landfill History, Colonial Street Layout, Great Fire Damage Zone, Sugar Houses of Manhattan
Great Fire page cross-references all 16 burned buildings
Content includes: Lenapehoking terrain, Dutch brick construction, NPC character specs, 1664 surrender primary sources, Alexander Hamilton at 21, British occupation details, building design references, harbor/ships, Battle of Long Island, Commons/Liberty Pole, Great Fire details, Pleistocene ice age, demo script, FAQ, sound design, event manager spec, UE settings
Image references updated to point to original wiki URLs
New pages added to: periods (6), places (1), buildings (1), people (3), events (4), maps (1), concepts (10)
Total wiki: 217 pages
2026-04-05 — Image Copyright Audit & Cleanup
Audited all 99 image references across 217 wiki pages
Colonial house (Public Domain, LOC/Carol Highsmith)
Created 2 informational placeholders with source URLs for manual download:
Glacier reference (NASA Earth Observatory, public domain)
NY Bight bathymetry (NOAA, public domain)
Remaining copyrighted placeholders (8): need UE renders, Google Street View replacements, and book cover alternatives
2026-08-20 — Character reference pack: Washington (1776) & Hudson (1609)
Added wiki/people/character-refs-washington-hudson.md: verified public-domain reference-image pack for Huascar’s MetaHuman builds. Washington frozen at Aug 29, 1776 (age 44, Battle of Brooklyn) — primary likeness is Peale’s 1776 Brooklyn Museum portrait (painted weeks before the battle), plus Peale 1772 (face-shape comparison) and Trumbull 1780 Met CC0 (blue-and-buff uniform detail). Hudson (Sept 1609): prominent warning that NO authentic portrait exists — apocryphal 1885 engraving included and labeled as such, plus three c.1610s–1624 costume references (Smythe 1617 NPG, John Smith c.1617 Smithsonian CC0, van der Borcht “Navigator” 1624 RMG) and the 1909 Halve Maen replica photo (Rotterdam City Archives CC0).
Added 8 images to wiki/images/ (all verified PD or CC0 on their Commons file pages).
Cross-linked to george-washington, henry-hudson-halve-maen, metahuman-likeness-reference, manhattan-1776, manhattan-1609. Index people count 12→13, total 232→233.
