Frequently asked questions

No. Public topics, search, preferences, and the local library work without login. This build has no authentication provider.

No. The current experience uses deterministic application code and public Wikimedia read APIs. No model key or secret is required. Even the “Ask this topic” terminal has no language model — it retrieves and ranks the source's own sentences rather than generating text.

A chatbot generates new text and can invent details it cannot back up. Novus Learn is extractive: it only pulls out and organises what a source actually says, keeps every claim linked to its evidence, and turns the material into study tools rather than a paragraph of prose. If the source cannot answer, it says so instead of guessing.

Wikipedia (article text, pinned to a revision), Wikidata (structured identity), Wikimedia Commons (media and licences), and Wiktionary (the dictionary). You can also bring your own: any public web page, a whole site you index, open-access journal articles from Europe PMC, and text or transcript files you upload. Every source is open, keyless, and attributed.

Yes. Open the Ask tab on any topic and ask in your own words — definitions, who/when/where/why/how, comparisons, or a summary. Every answer is built only from the source's real sentences and links to its evidence; if the source can't answer, Novus Learn says so instead of guessing. The same box runs commands like “download the flashcards” or “open the quiz”.

Search and article text come from the selected Wikipedia edition. Structured identity comes from Wikidata when the article links an entity. Reusable media and licence metadata come from Wikimedia Commons.

A disambiguation page represents several possible meanings and requires your choice. A limited-source state means the retrieved introduction or section structure is too sparse for a confident baseline. Novus Learn does not fill those gaps with guesses.

Shortcuts use local storage, while generated source and knowledge snapshots use IndexedDB. Neither creates a cloud account. Clearing local data removes both.

Analytics is off everywhere until you turn it on — in every region. Advertising depends on where you are, and a notice on your first visit tells you which applies: in the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland it is off until you accept it, while everywhere else it is allowed by default and can be switched off at any time. Analytics is Google Analytics 4, which does not log IP addresses; Adsterra is the active advertising provider for the current month. Global Privacy Control overrides any saved Analytics or Marketing grant while the signal is active.