Asked plainly,
answered plainly.

No, and it's not a dispute either. Your name is not unique in the world, and it doesn't have to be here. Only the ADDRESS is unique: there is one you.wiki/maria-papadaki, but every Maria Papadaki can have a page: maria-papadaki-2, maria-k-papadaki, whichever variant she picks. As you type, the field tells you instantly if an address is free (✓) or taken (✕) and suggests variants.

Only when someone pretends to BE you: writes your life, uses your photo, poses as you. That's impersonation, the one unforgivable act here. A person who merely shares your name and writes their own life is not disputing anything; they're just another human with a good name.

You write to disputes@you.wiki from the page you claimed (or with evidence of who you are). A human reviewer (later, community verifiers with Level 3 standing) looks at both sides: who the connected people vouch for, what evidence each side has. The decision is written into the permanent record, visible to everyone. Impersonators lose the address. We never move a page silently.

Always, forever, free. Move country, change work, rewrite your story. Visitors only ever see your NEWEST version. Every edit publishes instantly.

It's about protection, not restriction. Every save is kept as a numbered version, like pages in a bound notebook: you always write new pages, and nobody (including us) can secretly tear out or alter an old one. The world sees your latest page; the notebook exists so no one can ever forge your past. If the law requires something erased, we honor that too.

Each saved version carries a stamp that is computed from the version before it, like wax seals where every seal contains a bit of the previous one. If anyone tampered with an old version, every stamp after it would visibly stop matching. Tampering can't hide.

Your page is ANCHORED on a blockchain, not stored on one, and the difference matters. Every page version is sealed with cryptographic stamps (each seal contains a trace of the one before it), and once a day, ONE 64-character fingerprint summarizing the entire archive is written to Base, a public Ethereum blockchain that nobody controls, not even us. That fingerprint contains no names, no photos, no page text; it is pure mathematics that proves today's archive matches yesterday's. So nobody, including us, can ever quietly rewrite your past. Why not store the pages themselves on-chain? Because chains are thousands of times more expensive per byte, because the law gives every human the right to have personal data erased and a blockchain cannot erase, and because chains die too. Your page lives as multiple copies at independent companies; the blockchain is the tamper-proof witness that those copies tell the truth.

One real payment, once, does two jobs: it proves a human better than any CAPTCHA (a bot farm would need a real payment card for every fake page), and it funds an archive that has to outlive us all without ever running ads or selling data. There is also a free lane (three confirmations from members who are established themselves), but read the next answer, because in the founding era it isn't open yet.

Honestly: not yet, and here is exactly why. A confirmation only counts if it comes from someone who is established themselves. That is what makes trust impossible to fake, because it always traces back to a real person rather than to other free accounts. Three such confirmations establish a page. So until the archive has three established members, the free lane has nobody to confirm you, and claiming is $9. That is the founding era, and it ends quickly: the first members become the roots everyone else grows from. The archive wall at you.wiki/everyone shows the live count.

One signed-in account can hold exactly one page; the database physically refuses a second (it's a unique rule in the data itself, not a policy we enforce by hand). A hundred emails would give you a hundred separate accounts, yes, but each of those pages would carry no weight: hidden from search engines, powerless to vouch, never established, worth nothing. Making even ONE of them count costs a real payment (and the payment system sees when 'different people' pay with the same card) or three already-established humans staking their own standing on it. You can hoard weightless pages; you cannot hoard existence.

Ask what we'd be stealing. Your page is free forever, we run no ads, we sell no data, and the two things that cost money are one-time and tiny. Everything we promise is checkable from outside: your page is served publicly, every version of it is kept in a sealed, numbered history, and once a day a fingerprint of the whole archive is published in a public place we don't control, so even WE can't quietly rewrite the past. A scam needs a dark room. This whole thing is built out of windows.

Nobody can promise a year. What we can build, and have built, is 'no single point of failure, including us': your data is stored in an open format anyone can read, copied on a fixed schedule to a second, unrelated company, held offline in human hands as well, sealed against tampering by the daily public fingerprint, and financed by one-time payments so the archive never depends on next month's subscribers. And it is written policy that if this company ever winds down, the archive is handed to a digital-preservation institution, the kind that already keeps records older than most countries. Permanence isn't one heroic technology; it is a chain of custody with no weak link.

We are. The entire archive (every page, every version, every connection, plus the fingerprints that prove none of it was altered) compresses to a single file that fits on one drive. That is a design decision: an archive of humanity is only permanent if a complete, verifiable copy can go anywhere, including off-world when humans do. Today that means cold copies on other continents. The day there's a data center on another planet, ours is the kind of archive that can board.

No, and we never will. Those percentages are not facts about your ancestors: they are statistical comparisons against a reference panel of living people who volunteered to be tested, run through a company's private model. Change the panel or the model and your 'identity' changes; different companies routinely give the same person different numbers from the same spit. It feels like science and lands like a horoscope, and it quietly hands you your identity as a set of fractions decided by a lab. Here you get something better and truer: real people, named and dated, confirmed from both sides, each with their own page and their own words. Your descendants won't need an estimate of where you came from; they will see where you came from, written by the people who were there. A tree of real humans beats a pie chart of probabilities in every way that matters.

Two inversions. First, who writes it: on Wikipedia the page about your life belongs to strangers who never met you, and you are specifically not allowed to write it; if they get you wrong you argue on a talk page. Here, you write your own page, in your own voice, and nobody can overwrite who you are. Second, who qualifies: Wikipedia requires you to be 'notable' enough to deserve an entry, so almost every human who has ever lived does not exist there. We don't decide who is worth recording; being human is the qualification. In one line: they let others describe you if you are important enough, we let you describe yourself because you are here.

Every way that matters. No feed: nothing ranks your existence or decides who sees you. No likes, comments, or followers: a page is a record, not a performance, so there is nothing to harass anyone with. No subscription and no ads: you are the customer, never the product. And accounts here are meant to equal humans: power has to be anchored to a real payment or real people confirming you, so the count means something. Social media measures attention. This measures that you existed.

Not quite, so we stopped saying it. There IS software running here: it scores incoming traffic to keep robots out, it powers search when you look someone up, and it computes the daily fingerprint that protects history. What does not exist is the thing people actually mean by 'the algorithm': nothing here ranks human beings, decides whose life is worth showing, or builds a feed out of your attention. So we say what is true: no likes, no followers, no feed. Every page is reached because someone looked for it, not because a machine promoted it.

There is no resale market, by design. A page must be about the person who claims it; a squatted name with a fake or empty life behind it loses any impersonation dispute at zero cost to the real person. A name you can always take back for free is worth nothing to a scalper. That's deliberate: the moment names become merchandise, humans become inventory.

Search reads pages, not just names. 'charalambos darzentas santorini mathematician' finds the Charalambos whose page mentions Santorini and mathematics. The more truly someone writes their page, the more findable they become.

The hexagonal gold seal means the page is claimed by a real person (Level 1). Level 2: people who know them confirmed it. Level 3: witnessed by a trusted reviewer. Level 4: a legacy page with named guardians. On a computer, the seal's meaning also appears when you hover it. Higher levels are earned, never bought.

Live today: The Claim ($9, founding price) is the gold seal of a real person and a tree of 6. The House ($39, founding price) grows the tree to 12, keeps 12 memorial pages, and carries the family crest. The Eternal ($79, founding price) makes the tree unlimited and wears your numbered Founding Seal. Anything marked 'on its way' on the pricing page (the shared family tree, sealed letters, guardian tooling, Voyage I) is an included extra that arrives as it is built; the founding price you paid is locked either way. The printed Book of You is a separate physical product; Eternal holders are first in line when it launches.

No. You pay only the difference. The checkout reads what you already paid and charges what is missing, nothing more. Nobody pays twice for the same thing.

The numbers run in order of purchase, forever, but only the first 1,000 carry the title 'Founding'. Seal №47 exists exactly once, and it is on exactly one page.

You name the people you trust: from your page, or by writing to support@you.wiki from your claimed email. When the day comes, a guardian writes in, we verify them against your record, and the page enters legacy mode: preserved, marked, tended by them, never edited by strangers, never deleted.

Yes, and it's private BY DEFAULT. Your circle names other people, and they didn't publish anything; you did. So the circle stays visible only to you until you press its 'public' toggle in the builder. You can flip it back at any time, and republishing removes it from your public page immediately.

One photo per Portrait block, and as many Portrait blocks as you want. A full gallery block is on the roadmap.

It stays. That's the whole point. Naming guardians who tend your page after you is part of Eternal, and its tooling is on its way. And for someone who has ALREADY passed, a living member can build them a memorial page today at you.wiki/remember: it stands in the tree with a small candle, and only the member who keeps it can edit it. A free page keeps 2 memorial pages; The House keeps 12.

Their page must be theirs: one human, one page, claimed with their own email. The easy way: add them to your tree and share the invite link it gives you. When they open it, your connection is recorded from both sides and their page is half begun. Sitting beside them with one phone works too: on the claim page, step aside, let them claim with their email, then sign back in with yours. For someone who has passed away, build a memorial at you.wiki/remember instead.

Your email is the one key to your page, so guard it like one. If it is truly gone, write to support@you.wiki from a new address with your page's name and proof that you are you: things only the owner would know, or family members here who can vouch for you. A human reviews every case; no page is ever handed over automatically.

Not yet, honestly. Today you can export your PAGE at any time (Settings, then Export) as a readable file that is yours to keep forever. Speaking the genealogy formats that tools use, like GEDCOM, is part of the shared family tree work on the roadmap.

Your NAME, yes: any language, any alphabet, on your page and in your tree. The ADDRESS (you.wiki/your-name) uses latin letters, numbers, and dashes for now, so it can be typed on any keyboard on Earth. If your name lives in another alphabet, choose its latin spelling for the address.

Safer than a password for most humans. There is no password to guess, leak, or reuse from another site. The only way in is a fresh one-time link sent to your email, and it dies after it is used. It also means your inbox IS the key, so protect that one account well: that is the place worth a strong password and two-step sign-in.

A family tree names children, and your tree is private by default. The public archive is for people who write their OWN lives when they are ready, so keep children's pages and photos out of public view. If you find a child published here, use 'Report a page' at the bottom of any page; a parent or guardian can always have a child's data removed. Claiming a page is for people 16 and older; younger than that, a parent claims beside them.

Yes. Write to support@you.wiki within 14 days of any payment and we refund it, no questions asked. The only wrinkle: refunding a numbered Founding Seal releases that number back to the pool, so if you return №47, №47 can belong to someone else one day.