Overview

Surf Wiki is a general-purpose encyclopedia and knowledge base operated by CloudSurf Software LLC. The platform hosts over 900,000 articles covering a broad range of topics, with all content stored in the SurfDoc structured document format. Surf Wiki is publicly accessible at doc.surf/wiki.

The project launched in March 2026 with the goal of providing a knowledge resource where every article carries structured metadata, typed content blocks, and machine-readable verification status.

Content Format

All Surf Wiki articles are written in SurfDoc, a typed document format created by CloudSurf Software. Each article includes YAML frontmatter metadata (title, topic category, creation date, verification status, and source citations) and uses typed block directives to organize content semantically.

This structured approach means that article content is not stored as flat text but as typed, labeled sections. A summary block is identified as a summary. A citation is identified as a citation. This semantic structure enables automated processing, cross-referencing, and quality analysis that would require natural language inference on unstructured text.

Verification Pipeline

Surf Wiki implements a multi-tier verification system for article quality:

The AI verification pipeline performs automated fact-checking by validating claims against cited sources. Articles that pass verification are promoted to a higher tier, and verification status is recorded in each article's frontmatter metadata, making it queryable and filterable.

Dual-Audience Design

Surf Wiki is designed to serve two audiences simultaneously:

Human readers access the wiki through a web interface at doc.surf/wiki, where SurfDoc articles are rendered with navigation, cross-links, and visual formatting. The structured format ensures consistent presentation across articles, with summaries, key facts, and references appearing in predictable locations.

AI agents and software access the wiki through a public API that returns articles in their native SurfDoc format. Because SurfDoc is a typed, metadata-rich format, consuming applications can parse article structure, extract specific sections, read verification status, and follow citation links without relying on heuristic text extraction.

Public API

Surf Wiki provides a public API for programmatic access to its article corpus. The API returns articles in SurfDoc format, preserving all typed blocks, metadata, and verification information. This enables third-party applications, research tools, and AI systems to consume wiki content in a structured, machine-readable form.

Scale

As of March 2026, Surf Wiki hosts over 900,000 articles. The corpus spans general knowledge topics and continues to grow through both community contributions and AI-assisted content generation via the Mako assistant.

References

• Surf Wiki — Browse articles
• Knowledge API — Public search endpoint
• SurfDoc specification — ARDS v3.1
• Surf Docs — Document workspace
• WaveSite — AI website builder
• CloudSurf Software