The wiki was christened xbom at 03:14 in the morning by an editor who could not decide between "explosive" and "encyclopedic" and chose, in the end, both. The "x" is silent on Tuesdays. The name, like the body of knowledge it describes, is provisional.
Unlike most encyclopedias, xbom presents itself as a single continuous document. There are no entries, only altitudes. The reader descends. At each altitude, a different climate of information prevails. The transitions between altitudes are not announced; they are felt.
This format borrows from Japanese garden design, in which the path is meant to be experienced rather than mapped. It also borrows from cinema: a slow, unbroken pan from sky to soil.
Editors are appointed for life and dismissed for cause. Causes include: forming a category, declaring an entry "complete," or attempting to introduce a sidebar. The wiki has no sidebars. It has no related-articles boxes. It has, in fact, no widgets at all. There is only the column, descending.
The wiki concerns itself with the borderlands between the explosive and the orderly: detonations of meaning, controlled disasters, the architecture of fireworks, the choreography of failure. Anything that bursts, slowly, and with intention, is in scope.
Out of scope: cricket scores, software changelogs, opinions about cinnamon. There are other places for those.
Citations to xbom.wiki should give the altitude rather than the date. For example: xbom.wiki, alt. 0.42, retrieved on a Tuesday in spring. We find this more accurate.
None. The wiki, as conceived, is finished by being unfinished. We do not plan further descents. The path does not end; it widens.
You are welcome to keep scrolling.
Set in Josefin Sans for headings, Noto Serif for body, Courier Prime for marginalia. The cream is a Muji cream. The orange is a sunset over a ceramic factory. The illustrations are made of one line each.