This article briefly explains why this personal wiki no longer uses the once popular naming convention of 'Everything Person Knows' and why it should be left in the past. If you coincidentally happen to be contemplating a name for a personal wiki that you just made, then I do apologize.

Historically, the naming convention can be traced back to 'Everything Shii Knows' (ESK) in 2006, which would inspire 'Everything Anon Knows', the 'Everything I Know Wiki', and so on. Admittedly, this personal wiki also followed suit, 'Everthing Rumia Knows' (ERK), mostly because I wasn't very imaginative,¹⁾ but I finally dropped it in 2022 since it really bothered me over the years.²⁾

First off, you'd have to ask yourself what 'everything' actually curtails. There's no way that a singular person could realistically write down every single belief they have in one sitting, which is further compounded by the fact that people have 'occurrent' beliefs they might actively think about and 'dispositional' beliefs that they don't actively think about unless prompted. You may also have secrets that you shouldn't share.

Next, you have the word 'knows' which personally gives off the wrong impression. It just feels like a word that an arrogant know-it-all would pick, while I'm more of a humble skeptic that will admit to being a fucking idiot, plus I'm a bit adverse to 'look at me' types. From a philosophical standpoint, you also don't 'know' anything for certain, aside from your mind or consciousness, thus cogito, ergo sum.³⁾

The alternative reason is that Shii was kinda weird, namely his religious and political stances, but this wasn't really a factor compared to the aforementioned fundamental reasons. Of course, we could easily criticize a snapshot of who he was like in the aughts, but it's kinda petty and there's really no point in doing this now. It's also objectively more fun to simply allow people to explore the rabbit hole on their own accord.

Obviously, a personal wiki is a personal wiki, and you may call it whatever you want. This article wasn't really meant to be a persuasive argument or anything, I'm just recording my personal reasons for why the name kinda sucked in retrospect. That said, I don't particularly mind if more personal wikis continue popping up and borrow the name, as long as it attempts to be a personal wiki.