# How to Read This Wiki > [[Home]] · [[About This Wiki]] · [[License]] A short user guide for first-time visitors. ## Entity types The wiki is organized into six page types, each in its own folder under `wiki/`: | Type | What it is | Examples (as the corpus grows) | |---|---|---| | **People** | Individuals named in the corpus | Agency officers, FOIA officers, vendor representatives, elected officials | | **Organizations** | Agencies, vendors, partner jurisdictions | [[Conway Police Department]], [[Flock Safety, Inc.]], [[Axon Enterprise, Inc.]], data-sharing partners (including out-of-state and private-sector) | | **Concepts** | Policy frames, technical mechanisms, programs | ALPR, asset-forfeiture and free-trial procurement, hot lists, federal-LE data pipelines, real-time crime centers | | **Events** | Datable moments | FOIA filings, contract executions, deployment dates, audit events | | **Sources** | Per-document pages | Organized as `sources/<jurisdiction>/<production>/<friendly title>` | | **Synthesis** | Cross-cutting analytical essays | Patterns spanning jurisdictions — e.g. procurement, vendor dynamics | ## Wikilinks Cross-references between pages use **Obsidian double-bracket syntax**: wrapping a page title inside two opening square brackets and two closing square brackets resolves to the page at `wiki/<folder>/<title>.md`. Some links use the **piped-alias form** (with a vertical pipe between the target and the display text) to show different text while still linking to the same target page. When you hover over a wikilink in the published site, Obsidian Publish shows a small preview of the target page. Clicking opens it. ## Graph view The Publish site exposes a **graph view** (the icon at the top of the page) showing the entire wiki as a network of pages connected by wikilinks. Try it — clusters of dense connectivity tend to identify the structural cores of the corpus (e.g., a jurisdiction's procurement cluster, a sharing-partner cluster, a vendor-account-management cluster). You can also click any page's **Backlinks** panel to see every page that links *into* it. ## The two-hop evidence rule Every factual claim on every wiki page is anchored to a raw FOIA source — typically with a file path, location, and a verbatim quote. The path is: **Wiki page → Source page → Raw FOIA document** That's at most two hops. The wiki page summarizes; the source page quotes; the raw FOIA document is the primary evidence. If you want to verify a specific claim, follow the wikilink to the cited source page, then check the raw-source citation. The raw FOIA documents are not published on the public site — request them from the originating Arkansas agency under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act (Ark. Code § 25-19-101 et seq.). ## Source-tier hierarchy The wiki distinguishes four tiers of source: - **Tier 1** — the FOIA corpus (raw productions from Arkansas agencies). Tier 1 sources are the only sources that establish what an Arkansas agency *did*. - **Tier 2** — primary public records outside the corpus (statute text, court opinions, agency-published documents on `.gov` sites, vendor SEC filings, Flock Safety's own published documentation). Tier 2 contextualizes; it never substitutes for Tier 1. - **Tier 3** — authoritative secondary sources (established news outlets — ADG, Arkansas Times, Arkansas Advocate; national outlets where they cover Flock specifically; established advocacy analyses from organizations like ACLU and EFF; peer-reviewed scholarship on ALPR systems). - **Tier 4** — reference (encyclopedias). Used only for uncontested biographical or geographic context, never for substantive factual claims. Citations are tier-labeled. Tier 1 claims cite the wiki source page; Tiers 2–4 cite the local web-archive page (which preserves both the original file and an extract). ## Reading conventions - **Dates** are ISO 8601: `YYYY-MM-DD`. - **Citations** typically appear inline as `(<wikilink to source>, p. N, "verbatim quote")` or `(<wikilink to source>, <doc filename>)` for Tier 1; tier label + archive link for Tiers 2–4. - **Cross-references** between related events use `> See also:` callouts. - **Contradictions** across sources are flagged with `> [!contradiction]` callouts citing both. - **Open questions** that web research could resolve are flagged with `> [!web-research-unresolved]`. ## What's NOT in the wiki - The raw FOIA productions (held offline; request from the originating Arkansas agency). - Drafts, internal notes, or speculation untethered to a documented quote. - PII redacted in the underlying productions (officer personal info, license-plate scans, residential addresses). - Anything outside the bounds of FOIA productions Joshua has filed. ## Corrections Corrections supported by primary documentary evidence are welcome at [email protected]. See [[About This Wiki]] for full methodology and source attribution.