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Cultopedia is building the world's most up-to-date and comprehensive resource on organizations.

It is designed for people who want more than scattered articles, outdated summaries, or sensational fragments. Cultopedia brings together organizations, leaders, and the latest developments in one place, so readers can follow these systems with clarity and context.

Cultopedia is a public reference platform that organises reliable, published information about organisations over time. It brings together encyclopedic sources, journalism, academic research, and documentary material into structured timelines so readers can explore how organisations have been described across history.

Cultopedia does not classify organisations as cults and does not produce original allegations. It provides access to reputable sources so readers can make informed interpretations for themselves.

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-'''Cultopedia''' is a curated wiki about cults, sects, coercive organizations, their leadership structures, and the patterns of abuse and resistance that surround them.
+'''Cultopedia''' is building the world's most up-to-date and comprehensive resource on organizations.
-The site is built on a Wikipedia-derived knowledge base, then narrowed and extended with Cultopedia's own editorial layer. The aim is to be selective, comprehensible, and useful rather than encyclopedic about every adjacent topic.
+It is designed for people who want more than scattered articles, outdated summaries, or sensational fragments. Cultopedia brings together organizations, leaders, and the latest developments in one place, so readers can follow these systems with clarity and context.
+Cultopedia is a public reference platform that organises reliable, published information about organisations over time. It brings together encyclopedic sources, journalism, academic research, and documentary material into structured timelines so readers can explore how organisations have been described across history.
+Cultopedia does not classify organisations as cults and does not produce original allegations. It provides access to reputable sources so readers can make informed interpretations for themselves.
 == Explore ==
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 * [[Leaders|Leaders]]
-== Current starter set ==
+== About Us ==
-* [[Scientology]]
+* [[About Cultopedia|About Cultopedia]]
-* [[Aum Shinrikyo]]
+* [[I want to contribute|I want to contribute]]
-* [[Branch Davidians]]
+* [[FAQ|FAQ]]
-* [[Heaven's Gate (religious group)|Heaven's Gate]]
-* [[Order of the Solar Temple]]
-* [[Peoples Temple]]
-* [[Rajneesh movement]]
-* [[Unification Church]]
-* [[Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints]]
-* [[The Family International]]
-== Editorial direction ==
-* Focus on organizations that are themselves central to the subject.
-* Focus on founders, leaders, successors, and other key internal figures.
-* Add supporting pages about systematic abuse, survivor protection, and credible counter-initiatives without trying to mirror all of Wikipedia.
-== Project status ==
-This is an MVP build. The current goal is a small, high-signal set of organizations and leaders that looks good and works well. Broader discovery and monthly refresh workflows can be layered on top once the core experience is stable.
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