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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: Jonathan D.A. Jewell

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+# Changelog
+
+All notable changes to the Wayfinder project will be documented in this file.
+
+The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
+and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html) where applicable.
+
+## Philosophy
+
+We maintain this changelog with the same values as the project:
+- **Transparency**: Document all significant changes
+- **Clarity**: Explain the "why" not just the "what"
+- **Honesty**: Include mistakes and lessons learned
+- **Attribution**: Credit contributors
+
+## [Unreleased]
+
+### Planned
+- Level 1 materials (evidence mapping templates, PROMPT worksheets)
+- First example investigation (to be determined based on beta tester feedback)
+- Simple website (GitLab Pages or similar)
+- Beta tester recruitment (5-10 journalists)
+
+## [0.1.0-alpha] - 2025-11-23
+
+### Added - Project Foundation
+
+#### Documentation
+- **README.md**: Project overview, mission, learning pathway, quick start
+- **claude.md**: Comprehensive documentation for AI assistants and deep project context
+- **LICENSE.txt**: Dual MIT + Palimpsest v0.8 licensing
+- **CONTRIBUTING.md**: Contribution guidelines aligned with heutagogic principles
+- **CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md**: Community standards emphasizing epistemic virtues
+- **SECURITY.md**: Security policy covering source protection, data handling, platform security
+- **MAINTAINERS.md**: Governance model and maintainer responsibilities
+- **CHANGELOG.md**: This file
+
+#### Core Frameworks
+- **PROMPT Framework**: Six-dimension claim evaluation
+  - Provenance, Relevance, Objectivity, Methods, Perspective, Timeliness
+- **Boundary Objects Theory**: Integration as conceptual foundation
+  - Enables coordination without consensus
+  - Multiple entry points for different communities
+- **Data → Knowledge → Intelligence → Wisdom Pipeline**: Four-layer architecture
+- **Bio-Psycho-Social-Technical Systems Analysis**: Cognitive science integration
+
+#### Learning Pathway (Heutagogic Design)
+- **Level 1**: Skeptical Journalist → Evidence Mapper (4-8 hours)
+- **Level 2A**: Methodological Journalist → Process Documentarian (8-12 hours)
+- **Level 2B**: Statistical Journalist → Uncertainty Communicator (6-10 hours)
+- **Level 3**: Interactive Journalist → Knowledge Architect (20-40 hours)
+- **Level 4**: Systems Journalist → Epistemic Infrastructure Builder (ongoing)
+
+#### Cognitive Science Integration
+- Progressive disclosure architecture (avoid cognitive overload)
+- Meta-cognitive prompts (make thinking visible)
+- Empathy-first contradictory evidence (reduce defensiveness)
+- Transparent navigation analytics (show exploration patterns)
+- Trust calibration mechanisms
+
+#### Design Principles
+- Face-saving architecture (never "you were wrong")
+- Identity-safe framings (Kahan's cultural cognition)
+- Multiple entry points (serve different communities)
+- Collaborative investigation features
+- Accessibility-first (WCAG 2.1 AA minimum)
+
+### Context - Why This Project Exists
+
+This project emerged from recognition that:
+1. **We're not in "post-truth"** but in transition from pre-truth to truth
+2. **Data is outpacing** knowledge, intelligence, and wisdom
+3. **Journalists are demoralized**, seeing "the end of journalism"
+4. **Current approaches fail**: Ground News's algorithmic both-sidesism isn't enough
+5. **Interactive documentaries** (i-docs) naturally address post-truth pathologies
+
+### Influences and Inspiration
+
+#### Theoretical Foundations
+- **Nico Carpentier**: Participatory communication theory, PhD supervision
+- **Susan Leigh Star**: Boundary objects theory
+- **Ludwig Wittgenstein**: Late work on language games (vs. early truth-value semantics)
+- **Dempster-Shafer Theory**: Uncertainty quantification
+- **Granger Causality**: Temporal influence without mechanistic causation
+
+#### Media and Methodology
+- **i-Docs Research Network**: Interactive documentary frameworks
+- **Korsakow**: Non-linear documentary software (SNUs - smallest narrative units)
+- **Notable i-docs**: Out My Window, Hollow, Welcome to Pine Point, Prison Valley
+
+#### Philosophy and Literature
+- **De Man and Derrida**: Irony and the map-territory gap
+- **David Foster Wallace**: New Sincerity movement
+- **Profilicity vs. Authenticity**: Contemporary debates
+- **Oxford OAR Group**: Inventive Methodologies (anecdotes as legitimate knowledge)
+
+#### Cognitive Science
+- **Cowan (2001)**: Working memory limits (~4 chunks)
+- **Schwartz**: Choice paralysis
+- **Rozenblit & Keil**: Illusion of explanatory depth
+- **Kahan**: Cultural cognition and identity-protective reasoning
+- **Nickerson**: Understanding disagreement reduces polarization
+
+#### Professional Practice
+- **National Union of Journalists (NUJ)**: Professional journalism standards
+- **ProPublica**: Transparent methodology journalism
+- **Knight Foundation, Omidyar Network**: Investigative journalism funding models
+
+### Technical Decisions
+
+#### Why Dual Licensing?
+- **MIT**: Maximum compatibility, enables wide adoption
+- **Palimpsest v0.8**: Values alignment, ensures transparency and epistemic justice
+- Both apply; users choose which governs their use
+
+#### Why This Documentation Structure?
+- **README.md**: Quick orientation for humans
+- **claude.md**: Deep context for AI assistants
+- **Separate guides**: CONTRIBUTING, CODE_OF_CONDUCT, SECURITY, etc.
+  - Allows targeted reading
+  - Easier to maintain
+  - Clearer separation of concerns
+
+#### Why "Wayfinder"?
+- Captures both journalist role (guide) and reader experience (navigator)
+- Signals hope to demoralized journalists
+- Works as boundary object name (different communities hear what they need)
+- Gamification-friendly (Apprentice/Journeyman/Master Wayfinder)
+- Memorable, pronounceable, googleable
+
+### Lessons Learned
+
+#### What Worked
+- **Delaying specific advice**: Asking questions before prescribing solutions
+- **Cognitive science integration**: Design mitigations for known problems
+- **Heutagogic approach**: Self-determination + results (not points/badges)
+- **Boundary objects framing**: Solves "coordination without consensus" problem
+
+#### What We're Watching
+- **Production cost**: 10x more work than traditional journalism initially
+- **Learning curve**: Both journalists and audiences need new capabilities
+- **Business model**: No obvious revenue source yet
+- **Measurement**: How to prove this works?
+
+#### Open Questions
+- Which complex story for first prototype?
+- Obsidian vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Notion for Phase 1?
+- How to recruit first 5-10 beta testers?
+- What metrics actually matter for "success"?
+
+### Status
+
+**Current Phase**: Conceptual design complete, moving to proof-of-concept
+
+**Next Milestones**:
+1. Week 1: Level 1 materials, evidence mapping template, one example investigation
+2. Week 2: Share with 3 journalist friends for feedback
+3. Week 3: Build simple website (GitLab Pages)
+4. Week 4: First 5-10 participants start Level 1
+
+**4 weeks to proof-of-concept.**
+
+### Contributors
+
+- Project inception and design: [Name to be added]
+- [Additional contributors as they join]
+
+### Thank You
+
+To everyone who influenced this thinking:
+- The demoralized journalists who need hope
+- The academics who built the theoretical foundations
+- The i-docs practitioners who proved the concept
+- The open source community who model transparency
+- The cognitive scientists who reveal how we actually think
+
+---
+
+## Versioning Scheme
+
+### For Pre-Release (0.x.x)
+- **0.x.0**: Major conceptual changes
+- **0.0.x**: Documentation updates, minor fixes
+
+### For Release (1.x.x and beyond)
+- **Major (x.0.0)**: Breaking changes to methodology or platform
+- **Minor (0.x.0)**: New features, new levels, significant enhancements
+- **Patch (0.0.x)**: Bug fixes, documentation, minor improvements
+
+### Special Versions
+- **alpha**: Conceptual design, not yet tested
+- **beta**: Testing with small group
+- **rc**: Release candidate, ready for wider use
+- **(no suffix)**: Stable release
+
+---
+
+## How to Use This Changelog
+
+### For Contributors
+- Check Unreleased to see what's coming
+- Check your version to know what features are available
+- See Attribution to find who to thank or ask
+
+### For Maintainers
+- Update Unreleased as you work
+- Move to versioned section when releasing
+- Always explain why, not just what
+- Credit contributors generously
+
+### For Users
+- See what's new in each version
+- Understand why changes were made
+- Know what's planned next
+- Track project evolution
+
+---
+
+*This changelog embodies our commitment to transparency. Every significant change is documented with reasoning. Every contributor is credited. Every lesson is shared.*
+
+*See also: [README.md](./README.md), [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md)*