Public Knowledge Web

The web as a delivery mechanism for written content has deteriorated quite severely over the years. Clicking any link today floods us with ridiculous amounts of ads, GDPR notices, and we’re tracked every step of the way as we browse from page to page. Some of us may long back to “the good old days” of “web 1.0.” When all we had was plain HTML, and we were happy.

The Public Knowledge Web is an attempt to get back to those origins and encourage people to publish content in its essence: no ads, no elaborate site designs, no fluff, just... content.

How it works

Sites part of the PKW are published primarily in Markdown. Markdown hits a sweet-spot between just enough markup to be functional, and none of the cruft. On top of Markdown, we add a few minor features like cross-page links using the popular [[page reference]] format.

How do you browse the Public Knowledge Web? There’s various ways today:

  1. Public Knowledge Web sites can be rendered in plain HTML. An example of this can be seen on zef.pub.
  2. Personal Knowledge Management tools, such as SilverBullet offer built-in PWK support.
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