Ingesting sources
Ingestion is how a source becomes part of your wiki. Add something; Wikai reads it and writes linked pages.
How to add a source
- Drag and drop a file onto the wiki — a drop overlay appears.
- Add a source card on the wiki landing page (“drop a file here or click to browse”), or the small + in the toolbar.
- Paste a URL into the source card and click Fetch to ingest a web page.
Supported formats
| Format | What you get |
|---|---|
| EPUB | A book split into chapter pages, with a table of contents and prev/next navigation. |
| Text and embedded images extracted; long, outlined PDFs are split into chapters. | |
| DOCX / ODT / RTF / PPTX | Converted to Markdown (via pandoc; Wikai prompts to install it if missing). |
| HTML | Readable content extracted and converted to Markdown. |
| Web links | The article body is extracted via a reader view and saved with its source URL. |
| Markdown / .txt | Brought in as-is. |
What happens
Your file is copied into the wiki’s raw/ folder (untouched), processed,
and written out as one or more pages under pages/. A line is added to
log.md, and the page list and graph refresh automatically. Larger PDFs
show a per-page progress panel while they extract.
If a file already exists
When you add a file with a name that’s already there, Wikai offers to rename (the default — appends a number), overwrite, or skip.
After ingesting
Open the new pages, search across them, or ask the chat sidebar a question grounded in what you added.
Last updated 2026-06-18.