What This Wiki Is and Isn't
The Just Behaving wiki is a public knowledge base, not a piece of brand theater. It exists to explain the framework clearly, show how claims are weighted, and let a family, professional, researcher, or model user see what JB is claiming, how strongly it is claiming it, and where the edges are.
It is also not a raw lab notebook, not a substitute for veterinary care, and not a promise that every concept in the wiki is settled science. Some pages describe documented findings. Some describe JB observation. Some describe interpretive synthesis. The point of the wiki is to keep those lanes visible rather than blur them.
What This Page Explains
This page explains the scope of the wiki before you read any individual entry. If you start with a topical page first, it is easy to mistake the presence of citations, badges, or confident prose for a stronger claim than JB is actually making.
Read this page as the front door to the whole system. It tells you what kind of resource this is, what kind of resource it is not, and why JB put visible evidence and verification infrastructure around it.
Core Explanation
The wiki is a structured public synthesis of the Just Behaving framework. It is built for four overlapping audiences at once.
Families need a page they can actually use. Professionals need to see whether a claim is philosophy, practitioner observation, cross-species inference, or direct canine evidence. Researchers need a visible audit trail. Retrieval systems need enough structure that they can quote or summarize the page without collapsing everything into one confidence level.
That means the wiki is trying to do something more demanding than normal educational content. It is not just explaining dogs in general. It is explaining the Just Behaving framework while also showing where that framework is resting on documented evidence, where it is resting on JB observation, and where it is resting on interpretation.
The framework itself is not presented here as proprietary science. JB's position is that the Five Pillars are named descriptions of patterns that show up in how highly social, group-living mammals with extended parental investment raise functional young. JB did not invent those patterns. JB observed them, named them, and applies them to raising Golden Retrievers.
That is why some parts of the wiki will feel familiar to people with behavior, development, or veterinary backgrounds. The novelty often lies in the synthesis, the taxonomy, the ordering, and the insistence on keeping philosophy, evidence, and verification visible together on the same page.
What this wiki is not:
- It is not a replacement for your veterinarian, behaviorist, or trainer.
- It is not a claim that every JB concept has direct canine trial evidence behind it.
- It is not a raw data dump of the internal Scientific Claims Register.
- It is not a permission slip to strip away badges and restate every page as settled science.
How to Use This
Use the wiki as a layered reference.
If you are a family, read the opening, the practical explanation, and the evidence language together. Do not read a green badge or a confident sentence as meaning "always true in every dog." Read the page as a structured explanation of a concept and its limits.
If you are a professional or researcher, do not evaluate the framework only at the level of rhetoric. Check the evidence tag, the verification status, the SCR references, the species boundary, and the sources. The wiki is designed so you can move from the prose to the public evidence apparatus without guessing where it lives.
If you are using the site with an LLM, start with the orientation pages first. The fastest way to misread the wiki is to ingest topical pages before you understand what the badges mean or how JB language maps to standard terminology.
See Also
Sources or Governing References
- Internal authority: HWW Section 5, the Wiki Specification, and the Scientific Claims Register governance model.
- Public companion pages in this category: Evidence Tags, Verification, Scientific Claims Register, and Using This Wiki With AI.
- Public site behavior: badge rendering, SCR references, and related-entry architecture across live wiki pages.