A Wikipedia article about Typst

The best way to interact with wikipedia is just to be bold and edit in the changes you want to see. Wikipedia policy says that we should not try to make editorial decisions off-wikipedia, they should be done by editing directly, or on the talk pages of Wikipedia.

To be bold is one of the oldest ideas on Wikipedia: do the edit you want to see. However, if you are directly affliated with Typst - you created it, or you work for it, then you should not edit. Then it’s better to make the edit proposal heard on the talk page and make sure the editing happens through an intermediary editor.

About sources, we need to prefer reliable sources. This is an encyclopedia, so sources should preferably be independent (not written by the Typst company) and secondary (not describe the author’s own discoveries about Typst).

Take that in, because it might be a bit contrary to expectations. The best source is not to link to ‘Typst Universe’ and say “see it exists” but to link to a published magazine that describes Typst Universe.

I’m not a very active wikipedia editor, but I’ve been a wikipedia editor for a long time, so just trying to help.

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Typst at Britannica and Baidu

TL;DR, after Wikipedia entry done, I search approach of Baidu Baike, Wikipedia alt in China, it turns out “First, edit an entry at Britannica, which is a high trust source of Baidu Baike. Anyone who familiar with Britannica?

What sources I’ve tried and why Baidu not trust:

  • GitHub Octoverse 2025: company info, no peer review (by Gitlab, Gitee, etc)
    • As a modern LaTeX alternative, Typst aims to make academic and technical publishing faster, less cryptic, and more collaborative.

  • ISBN Books: independently (or so) published, less qualification
  • IEEE Explore: not highly cited
  • OSChina News: as second ref, not as core authoritative ref
  • Wikipedia: UGC (user gen content), not trust

As u may see, people take Typst as open source and not publication project in China. In fact, there are very few Chinese LaTeX books, only 9. People there don’t care about (math formula) typesetting, most of them use MS Office, 2700+ Office books.