# Wiki Atlas

Contains information that helps you navigate our wiki.

# Welcome to the wiki

![shelf.png](https://littledots.com/wiki/uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/scaled-1680-/T0KqqdFo0U0TSgsd-shelf.png)

littledots is a small room online for people who treat travel as the point of life, not a break from it. Regular travelers who get excited about a window seat, who plan the next trip the moment they are back from one, who share where they have been with people who actually want to hear about it.

## How this wiki works

Content here is grouped into shelves, books, and pages. A shelf holds books, which in turn hold pages. Most wikis (Wikipedia included) are a flat space of pages you reach by searching. Here, you can also browse top-down (open a shelf, pick a book, read its pages).

The wiki has two halves. The [**About the Wiki**](https://littledots.com/wiki/shelves/about-the-wiki) shelf (you're in it right now) is written by [wolfi](https://littledots.com/wiki/user/wolfi). The [**Guidebooks**](https://littledots.com/wiki/shelves/guidebooks) shelf is written and edited by members.

- About the Wiki is read-only for everyone.
- Guidebooks is community-curated. Members can add books, write pages, edit each other's work.
- Unauthenticated visitors only see About the Wiki. The rest is for signed-in members.

If you're signed in and you spot a typo, fix it. If you have something to add, add it. If you want to start a whole new book, start one.

## Keep our home base tidy

A few things to keep in mind when you're editing:

- **Edits should be improvements.** Fix typos, clarify, expand where you have something to add. Don't edit just to leave a mark.
- **Don't delete unless you're replacing.** If a passage feels off, rewrite it. Don't just remove it. The person who wrote it had a reason.
- **One topic per page.** If a page starts sprawling, split it into a new page rather than letting it drift.
- **Disagreements go in the discussion thread.** Every page has one. Argue there, not in the page body.
- **Recommend, don't promote.** Sharing places you liked is welcome. Affiliate links, sponsored mentions, anything you'd profit from people clicking are not.
- **No personal info about other members.** Don't add their real names, photos, or things they haven't shared themselves.

## Where to next

- [Shelves overview](https://littledots.com/wiki/shelves). Every shelf at a glance.
- [Books overview](https://littledots.com/wiki/books). Every book, regardless of shelf.
- [Online directory](https://littledots.com/wiki/books/online-directory). Hand-picked links travelers swear by, kept by members.