IRES LLM-Wiki

This is the LLM-wiki version of the UN International Recommendations for Energy Statistics (IRES) — the international methodology for official energy statistics, adopted by the UN Statistical Commission in 2011 and formally published in 2018. This wiki draws exclusively from that 2018 PDF publication as its source. It is an OKF-structured, LLM-built and LLM-maintained knowledge base, following the Open Knowledge Format: each topic is a folder under wiki/ whose index.md is its Map of Content (MOC).

Start at the Root MOC and follow topic links from there. See About for scope, method, and confidence conventions.

Design Origins

This wiki follows the LLM wiki pattern described by Andrej Karpathy (llm-wiki gist, April 2026): an LLM builds and maintains a persistent, interlinked markdown knowledge base from primary sources, instead of re-deriving answers from raw documents on every query.

Its navigation layer borrows a practice from personal knowledge management: the Map of Content (MOC), a note that indexes and routes to other notes on a topic rather than a flat search index or embedding store, originated by Nick Milo as part of his Linking Your Thinking method. Here that pattern is formalized structurally — a folder’s index.md is its MOC — via the Open Knowledge Format (OKF), a vendor-neutral spec for plain-markdown knowledge bundles proposed by Google Cloud Platform, which builds progressive disclosure on the same principle: auto-generated index.md files let an agent or human navigate the hierarchy one level at a time instead of loading an entire bundle into context.

Disclaimer

Treat these pages the way careful readers treat Wikipedia: not as a citable authority, but as a well-curated starting point that routes you to good sources. Even Wikipedia’s own “Academic use” page advises against citing it, and instead recommends using its references as a springboard to citable sources — the norm was endorsed by Wikipedia itself. Every page here is a summary, and any summary can be wrong. What the design guarantees is not infallibility but traceability: every claim carries a citation, and the text behind it can be followed down the provenance chain

wiki page → cleaned source (source/) → raw extraction (raw/_pdftotext/) → original PDF (raw/_pdf/ires-2018.pdf, or the official UN copy).

If a claim on any page looks questionable, readers — human or LLM — are encouraged to trace it back down that chain, as far as the need for clarity requires. See About for method and confidence conventions.