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Vibe Coding the Pi-Journal Wiki

Using Claude AI to Construct the Wiki

By Larry Kerschberg

Washington Apple Pi Journal, reprint information

I used Andrej Karpathy's prompt on X for the AI to construct the wiki. I use the AI chatbot called Claude (claude.ai), and it went ahead and constructed the framework of the WiKi. This framework was constructed within an Obsidian vault called Pi-Journals. Obsidian is a free app that you can download for the Mac.


Once the Wiki framework was constructed, I placed PDFs of each Pi Journal into it, using a drag-and-drop approach. I told Claude to ingest the PDFs into the Wiki. It read the contents of each journal and created entries in the Wiki. It also linked the concepts, people, and entities discussed in each journal article. This was all done automatically without any human input. I learned a lot about the Pi by reading the Wiki entries.

Link to Washington Apple Pi Journal Wiki


Exporting the Wiki to the wap.org website


I was viewing the Wiki in the Obsidian app which has a graph visualization tool that shows all the nodes and links between them.


In order to export the contents of the Wiki into a form suitable for a website, I asked Claude to create a website version that could be hosted by wap.org. Claude matched the color scheme of the target website and created the HTML code for the site in a folder.


I created and archive of that folder and sent to Lawrence Charters, our webmaster. He then incorporated it into our website.

  1. Obsidian also allows a Wiki to be published directly to a website, and it automatically updates the website with any changes made to the Wiki. I have published a site on Photography what can be viewed at: https://publish.obsidian.md/photography.
  2. Click on the wiki and it will expand to show: concepts, entities, notes, outputs, projects, sources, and templates. Click on any of these to expose more content.
  3. In the right-hand corner is an Interactive graph showing the item and its interconnections.