How It Works

Creating an Article

Any logged-in user can create a new article from the New Article page. Every article has a title, body content written in Markdown, and optional metadata, a header image, and a timeline.

New articles are placed in a pending review queue and must be approved by a patroller before they become publicly visible. You can follow the status of your submissions on the New Pages patrol list.

Editing an Article

Every published article has an Edit button. When you save a change you must provide an edit summary — a short note describing what you changed and why. This is required for all edits and becomes part of the article's permanent revision history.

Large deletions (removing more than 80% of an article's content) trigger a confirmation prompt to prevent accidental data loss.

Every revision is stored. You can browse an article's full history, compare any two revisions side-by-side in the diff view, or restore a previous version.

Writing Content

Article bodies are written in Markdown. The editor toolbar provides shortcuts for bold, italic, headings, bullet lists, and links. Two special link types power the wiki's connections:

[[Article Name]]

Creates a wiki link to another article. These links are rendered as clickable references and help readers navigate between related conspiracies.

[[Category:Name]]

Tags the article with a category. Categories group articles together and appear on the Categories page and in the article's sidebar.

Content can be split into multiple named sections using the + New Section button. Each section collapses independently in the editor for easier navigation on long articles.

Metadata

The Metadata tab in the editor is where an article's structured intelligence lives. Filling in metadata is optional but directly powers the wiki's analysis pages — the more complete the metadata, the richer those views become.

Status

Whether the conspiracy is Active, Partially Confirmed, Unresolved, or Declassified. Feeds into the Stats breakdown.

Government Involvement

The level of alleged or confirmed government participation. Feeds into the Stats page.

Location & Countries

Where the conspiracy is centered. Used for geographic filtering and stats.

Origin Year & Date Range

When the conspiracy originated or the span it covers. Powers the Conspiracies by Decade chart on the Stats page.

Key Players

Named individuals involved, each with an optional role. Any person who appears in two or more articles automatically appears in the Person Network.

Organizations

Groups or institutions connected to the conspiracy, each with an optional role. Same as Key Players — any organization spanning two or more articles appears in the Organization Network.

Evidence Types

The types of evidence cited (e.g. Documents, Whistleblowers, Photographs). Feeds the Evidence Types chart on the Stats page.

Themes

High-level themes like Government Cover-Up, Mind Control, or Extraterrestrial. Powers the Themes page and the Top Themes chart on Stats.

Classification Level

Indicates how sensitive or classified the subject matter is.

Media Coverage

How extensively the conspiracy has been covered in mainstream media.

Related Conspiracies

Links to other articles with a defined relationship type (e.g. shares_actor, caused_by). These appear in the article's infobox for readers to explore connected theories.

Sources & Document References

External sources supporting the article, with URL, title, and type. Sources appear in the infobox.

Timeline

The Timeline tab lets you add dated events to an article — each with a title, description, and optional source URL. Events are sorted chronologically and displayed below the article body as a visual timeline. Articles with timelines are counted on the Stats page.

Truth Meter

Every article has a Truth Meter — a community credibility vote. Logged-in users can mark an article as Credible or Disputed. Votes are tallied into a percentage bar visible on every article page. You can change or retract your vote at any time.

Vote totals power the Leaderboard, which ranks articles by most voted, most credible, and most disputed.

The Network

The Network page automatically maps connections across the wiki. When a person or organization is tagged in the metadata of two or more articles, they appear as a node with spokes connecting to each article they link. No manual curation required — the network builds itself from the metadata contributors fill in.

Article Quality & Patrol

Articles are assigned a quality rating — Stub, Developing,Good, or Featured — by patrollers during the review process. The distribution of quality ratings is tracked on the Stats page.

Patrollers can review pending new articles on the New Pages page and flag articles needing attention in the Review Queue.

Your Watchlist

You can watch any article to track edits. Watched articles appear in your Watchlist, which shows recent changes across all articles you follow.