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Wiki: quote Tao Te Ching ch. 1 as it now reads; the atlas's full name - #17

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Chapter 1's first line now reads "The Tao that can be made a way is not the ever-present Tao." It changed on 2026-10-16 in opencosmos-ai/taoteching#32. The wiki is ambient context in every opencosmos session, and its pages feed Cosmo's retrieval, but four pages still quoted earlier wordings:

Page Was Now
entities/lao-tzu.md "made into a way" "made a way"
concepts/the-good.md "made into a way" "made a way"
concepts/logos-and-tao.md "made into a way" "made a way"
entities/gibran-kahlil.md "the Tao that can be named is not the eternal Tao" the ch. 1 line, quoted from the Open Tao Te Ching

Notes:

  • The translation's own ch. 1 notes reject "made into a way" as "the same passive with a spare word".
  • The gibran-kahlil quote mixed lines 1 and 2, in Feng–English wording with "eternal" (常 is locked as ever-present). The 2026-10-15 re-quote pass missed this page.
  • lao-tzu.md also said the book "explicitly says the Tao cannot be spoken". That is the speech reading the translation sets aside, so it now quotes what the first two lines say.

Every edit is logged in wiki/log.md.

Also: the generator now names the site by its full title, "Open Classical Chinese Character Atlas & Glossary". sources/taoism-tao-te-ching.md is regenerated from taoteching@cea7096. Only that title line changes, because today's 聖 entry changed no verse or notes.

Not changed, and worth a look: the-good.md still frames ch. 1 with "Both traditions acknowledge the limit of language". Line 2 (the name that can be named) supports that, but line 1 no longer reads as a claim about speech. Whether to reword it is your call.

quotes:lint passes. The health check reports "All inline links resolve correctly", which is the line CI asserts. Its 12 broken references are pre-existing Shakespeare entries.

🤓 + 🤖 Created by Shalom with the assistance of Claude Code

Chapter 1's first line became "The Tao that can be made a way is not the
ever-present Tao" on 2026-10-16 (taoteching#32). Three wiki pages still
quoted "made into a way", which the translation's own ch. 1 notes now
reject; gibran-kahlil.md, missed by the 2026-10-15 re-quote pass, still
had Feng-English's "the Tao that can be named is not the eternal Tao";
and lao-tzu.md said the book "says the Tao cannot be spoken", which is
the speech reading the translation sets aside. All logged in wiki/log.md.

The generator names the site by its full title, "Open Classical Chinese
Character Atlas & Glossary", and the corpus copy is regenerated from
taoteching@cea7096 (only that line changes).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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