Model knowledge starts with who is allowed to define the model.

The institution shelf is not a company directory. It is a way to notice which public actors shape the terms of model comparison. Some institutions train frontier systems. Others package access, run evaluations, write standards, publish policy, maintain open weights, or translate research into workplace software.

WikiLLMs reads each institution through a few recurring questions: what does it make public, what does it keep private, how does it revise claims, and who depends on its choices? The answers change over time, so the shelf is designed for annotation rather than permanent verdicts.