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I may have missed something, here so to make sure:

1. Do you want a wiki specifically, or are you looking for a tool that would allow you to easily create and manage some worldbuilding bible, be it a wiki or not a wiki?
2. Isn't LibreOffice able to export to MediaWiki (Wikipedia)? I have not checked, and never used it, but I think it's there somewhere.

the best thing it can do is just make a document look good,

It can also help you write the actual book, worrying about the document 'look' aka its formatting is optional (and if done properly, using Styles, it's almost 100% automated) ;)

Wouldn't a word processor do trick? you can add links, images, refs, notes,... and have as many pages as you need (edit: and search them, add a table of content, and so on). LIbreOffice is most certainly already installed on your Linux distro and is also available for Mac and Windows.

Thank you. It's your 'FFS' that triggered the whole discussion ;)

The answer should also take into consideration the place of extraction/growth of the raw material (and the cost of getting it and storing it, using whatever tools are required), its shipping to the pencil manufacturing plant, how it should be handled and processed maybe. And a few other things like that but, yeah, I would not be surprised if plastic was not the best choice there was.

I would not have thought about asking AI myself because, well, I'm not much into using them. partly because, I don't like the world their owners are trying to make a reality, partly because they consume so much energy.

This is an interesting consideration as, once again as a pencil (and a Bic pen, and fountain pen) user myself, I have always wondered what was worse between cutting trees (or reusing hemp, which is a also a plant) to make the casing, or reusing some sort of already wasted material instead of throwing it away.

I mean that very seriously as all techniques do require a lot of energy to get to the result they want to achieve. That energy is to me the real ecological issue: the one that is costing less energy should be favorited.

Personally, I much prefer wooden pencils there is not the hint of the beginning of a doubt about that (and I pay good money to buy quality ones) but I would change and get rid of my 'preference' in a heartbeat if there was data showing something else was a better choice energy-wise. Be it recycled plastic, or cannabis, or that really interesting & intriguing concept showcased in the OP.

FFS!

Am I expected to react positively or negatively? ;)

It looks quite clever. As a pencil user, I would gladly try a few of those if they were manufactured.

But this is not correct:

Pencils haven’t changed much in hundreds of years. They still come wrapped in wood with a graphite lead running along the center

For the casing, a lot pencils, most noticeably cheap ones, do not use wood for casing. It's recycled plastic or some stuff like that. Here in France, I think Bic is recycling plastic to create the casing of their low cost pencils and colored pencils, while making it look somewhat like wood. I would say Staedtler does it too for its real entry level pencils but I'm not sure.

Like paper, pencil is one of those innovations that has reached maturity (to not say 'perfection') but it doesn't mean there is not much research still going on. Exactly like with paper ;)

C'est pas hyper technique mais est-ce que vous connaissez un logiciel (ou un site) pour dessiner le plan d'un appartement facilement ?

Un crayon et du papier + une photo/scan avec le smartphone? Tu pouuras même annoter le plan, sans changer de crayon, pour le rendre encore plus informatif ;)

Imho, any kind of fiction is imagination, dream, escape, and is without limit. The setting and the 'reality' it's based upon may change in one form of fiction compared to another but that doesn't make them different (or less daring) anymore than, say, me changing clothe.

So to answer your question, I think fantasy like most other literary labels is mostly a term coined to allow a few people to shine a little more than they would otherwise do, and maybe to help publishers create/manage more niche markets. And since it works quite well, it started being used by readers to feel assured that they would get the kind of 'imagination' they're used too.

I love reading fiction a lot more than I care about reading any genre... despite having my own favorite genres too, don't get me wrong. My bookshelves are a mess of various type of books and genres and the only semblance of order one will find in it is how much I appreciate one author compared to the others ;)

I don't think any country has 'a view' on the way to speak their language. I mean, would there be a law, some rules and sanctions against accents?

People may have their own opinion on the matter but that opinion will vary widely from one person to the other.

My opinion, which was already mentioned in another comment, is that anyone making fun on someone speaking a foreign language can (and should) go funk themselves.

We should welcome those kind of efforts instead of mocking them, and we should also be happy to be encouraged to speak more foreign languages ourselves. I say that as I a French that's poorly speaking a few languages and would love to speak a lot more.

What are you looking for in such a guide? Like suggested, Mint installation guide is great to... install it and I needed not much beside that myself (but I was a Mac user, not Windows) ;)

Imho, what most people need is the willingness to give Linux a chance. And that, I'm afraid, no guide could give them.

No, but why would I want to watch another of those Americans pretend they're a super hero saving the world while they only care about shoving their shit deep down our throats and then make us thank them for that?

They don't care about us, no matter what they say. But maybe that's not much of a secret? ;)