David Wicker

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Fieldwork · 01/02

Two Peoples, One Land

An atlas of the South Caucasus from 1813 to 2026.

Armenians and Azerbaijanis in one frame: territories, populations, leaders, parties, atrocities and court rulings, from the Russian annexation to the emptying of Karabakh in 2023.

Every claim is tied to a source and shows whether a person has checked it yet.

Data
armenia_atlas
Status
working prototype, verification in progress

armenia · Dockerfile · SvelteKit, migrates and seeds on start

webarmenia.wicker.life

The atlas, the timeline and the evidence records.

Two Peoples, One Land, as it looks todayOpens live
tiles294 MB

Self-hosted map tiles for the South Caucasus, read straight from object storage.

01The problem

In a contested conflict, a fact, a legal ruling, a state narrative and a historical reading can describe the same event while resting on different institutions and standards of proof. Ordinary narrative pages hide that structure. This prototype tries to make it visible.

02How it works

Events, places, people, parties, policies, rulings, heritage sites, sources, disputes and viewpoints are all records linked to each other. Every claim is anchored to a source and a precise location in it, and carries a status, competing viewpoints, an audit trail and an edited revision. The interface shows those links as citation popovers, maps, graphs, revision history and exports.

03Nothing is true until a person checks it

AI-assisted drafting is treated as provisional. A claim only becomes verified when a person has checked the source, the locator, the wording and the context. Corrected, disputed, rejected and unresolved claims stay visible, because disagreement is part of the record.

04Boundaries

The current pilot covers the Lachin corridor blockade, the September 2023 displacement from Nagorno-Karabakh and the international response. It is a working prototype, not a Maastricht University project, not legal fact-finding, and not a verified scholarly resource unless a record is marked as checked.