{"id":11,"date":"2026-04-09T04:18:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/adaptation\/?p=11"},"modified":"2026-04-09T06:17:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:17:43","slug":"towards-adaptive-encyclopedias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/adaptation\/2026\/04\/09\/towards-adaptive-encyclopedias\/","title":{"rendered":"Towards Adaptive Encyclopedias"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <em>Adaptation and Personalization Community Group<\/em> intends to explore and discuss technologies including those with which to enable <em>adaptive encyclopedias<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With adaptive encyclopedias, end-users would be able to browse and navigate vast repositories of knowledge, finding that each article they viewed was adapted and personalized to their individual settings and configurations (or to proximate user-modeling stereotypes).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These settings and configurations would, as considered, include end-users&#8217; reading levels, language fluencies, and background knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With respect to encyclopedia article authoring and editing, as envisioned, audience-independent inputs would be authored for software components to use to create prompts or agentic workflows for artificial-intelligence systems to use to generate audience-specific article variants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These approaches would be entirely compatible with features and functionalities for collaborative, crowdsourced article editing. Articles&#8217; editors would simply modify those ingredients which audience-specific article variants were to be generated from, perhaps while being able to view selected output article variants on-screen, in near-real-time, as they edited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While, today, some of these features can be delivered for individual websites using existing and emerging techniques, it is envisioned that end-users would want to be able to set, configure, adjust, and calibrate their settings and configurations and to be able to choose to have these simply work across websites, across encyclopedias, technical documentation, science news articles, educational resources, and many other compatible sites across the Web. That is, it is envisioned that end-users would want to store and control their user-model data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To browse and participate in our discussion area, please visit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/w3c-cg\/adaptation\/issues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Adaptation and Personalization Community Group intends to explore and discuss technologies including those with which to enable adaptive encyclopedias. With adaptive encyclopedias, end-users would be able to browse and navigate vast repositories of knowledge, finding that each article they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/adaptation\/2026\/04\/09\/towards-adaptive-encyclopedias\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1959,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/adaptation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/adaptation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/adaptation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/adaptation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/adaptation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/adaptation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/adaptation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/adaptation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/adaptation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/adaptation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}