A study guide built on Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is one of humanity's greatest achievements — millions of articles, rigorously sourced, freely available. Faceted.wiki builds on top of it. We take a topic you want to learn, select the 12 Wikipedia pages that matter most, and organize them into a structured reading path. We re-cut each page into facets, showing you the aspects that matter most.
What this does
You type a topic. We pick 12 Wikipedia pages that, taken together, give you both breadth and depth. Not a random list — a structured syllabus organized into three layers:
Foundation
The core concepts. What you need to know before anything else makes sense.
Deep Dives
Specific mechanisms, key events, central figures. The parts worth zooming into.
Connections
Adjacent fields, consequences, modern applications. The context that makes it stick.
Then, for each page, we read the Wikipedia article and re-cut it into facets — short, opinionated summaries that lead with what's interesting and cut everything that doesn't earn its place. Think of it as a smart friend who read the whole article and is telling you the parts that matter.
How it works, concretely
You search for a topic—anything from "behavioral economics" to "the Silk Road."
An LLM selects 12 real Wikipedia pages and organizes them into a learning path. This takes about 5 seconds.
You see a sidebar with all 12 pages. Click any one and we fetch the Wikipedia source, run it through the LLM, and produce a faceted breakdown. This takes 10–20 seconds the first time; after that it's instant.
Work through the pages at your own pace. The sidebar tracks where you've been.
What it's not
This isn't a Wikipedia replacement. It's more like a study guide that uses Wikipedia as its source material. Every page links back to the original article. If a facet catches your interest, you should absolutely go read the real thing — that's the point.
It's also not a textbook. The facets are opinionated shortcuts. They're great for building a mental model quickly, less great for writing a thesis.
Under the hood
Wikipedia content is fetched live and synthesized on demand. Generated pages are cached so the LLM only runs once per article. All content is derived from Wikipedia and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.