The site evolves through updating the knowledge graph, not accumulating pages

The site evolves through updating the knowledge graph, not accumulating pages

The classic content model often associates the appearance of new information with the creation of a new page. Over time, this leads to a linear growth in the number of documents: old materials become outdated, new ones may contradict them, and the holistic picture breaks down into historical versions.

An alternative approach is to treat the site as a constantly refined information field.

New information can:

  • update an existing Concept;
  • refine its wording;
  • add a new connection;
  • shift accents;
  • replace an outdated conclusion;
  • combine several disparate ideas;
  • only when necessary, generate a truly new independent Concept.

The growth of the site's quality is therefore measured not only by the number of pages, but by the relevance, connectedness, completeness of context, and clarity of the entire knowledge map.

Criterion of Global Readability

From the list of Concepts, their titles, short descriptions, and connections, it should be possible to quickly determine what the entire site is talking about now. Full texts are needed to dive deeper into a specific topic.

This is one of the central principles of fi1osof.ru and relies on the Concept as the primary addressable unit of knowledge.

The idea is also related to the experience of conceptica.world, where knowledge is viewed through a network of interconnected concepts rather than just a sequence of educational pages.