The codexery network

7,930 reference sites. One standard.

Most of what you find when you look something up is a summary of a summary. We build the other thing: deep, browsable references — every player, every episode, every element, every saint — organised properly and traced back to where the claim came from.

The Codexery mark: an open codex with prismatic pages
7,930
live codexes
233,333
catalogued entries
14
subject areas
9
languages

What we are actually trying to do. Pick any subject you care about and the good information is scattered — a bit on a wiki, a bit in a forum thread, a bit locked in someone's YouTube video. Codexery takes one subject at a time and builds the reference that should already exist: complete, structured, and honest about its sources.

Every entry is checked, and we publish the checking. Each codex carries an audit record showing what was verified against its source and what was flagged. That record is not marketing — it is the same file our repair pipeline reads. When we get something wrong, the fix goes in and the record updates.

It is a network, not a site. A codex about a football club should link to the codex about its league and its city. That is the point of building them together, and it is why the whole index is on this page rather than behind a search box.

The most-read codexes in each subject area are below; the filter searches all 7,930. Numbers are catalogued entries.
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Featured entries well-sourced pages readers are finding

Music 538 codexes · 15,504 entries

Bands, artists, labels and scenes — discographies, tours and the stories behind the records.

Sport 670 codexes · 34,516 entries

Clubs, leagues and competitions: squads, honours, rivalries and the matches people still argue about.

Screen 819 codexes · 23,558 entries

Film and television, episode by episode — cast, production and the things that happen off camera.

Comics & Fiction 471 codexes · 29,788 entries

Invented worlds catalogued properly: characters, factions, artifacts and the arcs that connect them.

Games 599 codexes · 23,108 entries

Mechanics, weapons, bosses and builds — the detail that wikis usually bury three clicks deep.

Science & Nature 302 codexes · 9,662 entries

Species, elements, forces and systems, written to be understood rather than skimmed.

History & People 393 codexes · 11,731 entries

Lives and eras — what someone actually did, when, and what it changed.

Places 418 codexes · 10,696 entries

Cities, ranges, rivers and regions: geography with the culture and economy attached.

Belief & Thought 208 codexes · 4,943 entries

Scriptures, doctrines, schools and the arguments between them, described without a thumb on the scale.

Food & Drink 146 codexes · 3,687 entries

Dishes, ingredients and techniques, plus the regions that made them worth knowing.

Tech & Business 125 codexes · 3,754 entries

Companies, products and the people who built them — including the parts that did not work.

Books & Writing 165 codexes · 4,141 entries

Novels, poets and the long series that reward a proper index.

More 1,792 codexes · 56,343 entries

Everything that refuses a tidy label — and often the most interesting shelf in the building.

Marine Species 1,284 codexes · 1,902 entries

One codex per marine species — taxonomy, distribution and biology from WoRMS, FishBase, GBIF and IUCN. Too many to list here; browse the directory.