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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. | |||
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. | |||
== | == Explore == | ||
* [ | * [[Organizations|Organizations]] | ||
* [ | * [[Leaders|Leaders]] | ||
* [ | |||
* [ | == Current starter set == | ||
* | * [[Scientology]] | ||
* [[Aum Shinrikyo]] | |||
* [[Branch Davidians]] | |||
* [[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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Revision as of 12:50, 4 April 2026
Cultopedia is a curated wiki about cults, sects, coercive organizations, their leadership structures, and the patterns of abuse and resistance that surround them.
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.
Explore
Current starter set
- Scientology
- Aum Shinrikyo
- Branch Davidians
- 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.