MOGAIpedia

# Intro

MOGAIpedia is Mogai-Watch’s MOGAI archive wiki. From what we can find, it seems to have been started on January 21, 2019, however the idea could’ve been around long before then. The wiki contains the majority of MOGAI terms on the internet, specifically the ones from February 26, 2014 through March 5, 2020. The wiki hasn’t been updated since. Even though it has gone through a period of inactivity, the wiki still holds up as one of the largest archives of MOGAI terms that’s still up today.

It’s currently unknown whether or not MOGAIpedia will update again.

# Site Organization

Because of the sheer amount of MOGAI terms that MOGAIpedia has archived (over 4000), it makes sense that the wiki would have to be fairly organized. Even with the downfalls that members of the community have pointed out, the organization of the site has never really seemed to be one of them. The site is organized into 29 categories and subcategories with genders and 11 for orientations.

## Gender Organization

The genders on MOGAIpedia are organized into the following categories and subcategories:

### Written Breakdown

All of these terms count as “MOGAI Genders” and can be described as such. From there, they break down into two categories, “Xenogenders” and “Genders Pertaining to Protected Classes.” The second of the two then splits into three new categories, “Neurogenders,” “POC Genders,” and “Orientation Genders.”

The “Xenogenders” category then splits off into eight different gender categories: “Colorgenders,” “Gastrogenders,” “Esmogenders,” “Audiogenders,” “Fictigenders,” “Naturogenders,” “Religiogenders,” and “Sciencegenders.” Those categories break down as follows:

* “Colorgenders” has no subcategories or smaller terms under it. “Gastrogenders” and “Audiogenders” are the same.
* “Esmogenders” has two other subcategories underneath it- “Relationship Genders” and “Peoplegenders”
* “Fictigenders” also has two subcategories under it- “Aedragenders” (which is sometimes referred to as “Daedragenders”) and “Exemgenders”
* “Naturogenders” has three terms that fall under it- “Faunagenders,” “Floragenders,” and “Aerogenders”
* “Religiogenders” has three subcategories- “Kingenders,” “Mythologenders,” and “Zodiacgenders”
* “Sciencegenders” has four subcategories (the most out of the bunch)- “Mathgenders,” “Technogenders,” “Linguisticgenders,” and “Artistigenders” (it should be noted that the “Artistigenders” link doesn’t actually link to a full wiki page)

## Orientation Organization

The genders on MOGAIpedia are organized into the following categories and subcategories:

### Written Breakdown

All of these terms count as “MOGAI Sexualities” and can be described as such. From there, they break down into two categories, “Xenosexualities” and “Identity-Politics Sexualities.” The second of the two only breaks down into one other category- “Neurosexualities.”

The “Xenosexualities” category then breaks down into another category- “Aesthetisexualities.” That then breaks down into four categories: “Esmosexualities,” “Fictisexualities,” “Naturosexualities,” and “Religiosexualities.” Those categories break down as follows:

* “Esmosexualities” doesn’t have any subcategories. The same goes for “Fictisexualities” and “Naturosexualities.”
* “Religiosexualities” breaks down into two different subcategories- “Kinsexualities” and “Mytholosexualities.”

## Other Organization

### Supercategories

The MOGAIpedia website also breaks terms down in another way. The wiki also breaks down all MOGAI terms by nouns. These different, larger categories are labeled as supercategories. It first breaks terms down into 32 different pages, all based on certain nouns. All of those categories break down into more specific descriptors, which then list all the genders and orientations that MOGAI-Watch decided fit the description.

### By Date

MOGAIpedia, along with the other forms of sorting terms, also has them listed in chronological order. The wiki not only has year-by-year organization, but also month-by-month and even day-by-day breakdowns of when terms were posted.

# Criticisms of the Wiki

While the site has seemed to be helpful to a number of people in the MOGAI community, there are still a number of criticisms towards the site.

## It’s Not up to Date

Despite how much information on terms and figures in the community there is, the wiki is still missing a good amount of information. This can be mostly chalked up to it not having been updated for around four months, however there was also never any information on prominent figures in the MOGAI community, outside of Sapphire Crimson Claw and MOGAI-Archive.

While not being the most common point of frustration, it still likely makes it hard for members of the MOGAI community to find exact terms that may fit them, due to the likely hundreds to even thousands of terms the sight may be missing.

## It’s Somewhat Demeaning

Because MOGAIpedia is run by someone who is very clearly anti-MOGAI, the wiki does contain some mockery towards the community. This can come in the form of poems that mock the descriptions of terms, to demeaning categories created by the site’s admin that, again, mock the contents of the terms. The categories specifically are mostly directed towards genders, however orientations occasionally catch the heat, as well.

The labeled categories that MOGAIpedia invented (these are separate from normal MOGAI gender organizing terms) are listed below.

1. Fancy way of saying cisgender
	1. *or* Bruh, You’re Cis
2. Fancy way of saying genderfluid/polygender
	1. *or* Did You Mean Genderfluid/Polygender
3. Fancy way of saying you have no idea what you’re talking about
	1. *or* … I’m Not Sure What You Meant
4. Most Offensive
	1. *or* Egregious Terms
5. Most Stupid
	1. *or* Terms of fathomless Stupidity
6. Worst Flags
	1. *or* Terrible Flags

All of these categories have been deemed very demeaning towards the MOGAI community, those within it, and the terms within it.

The poems that MOGAI-Watch adds to a majority of the terms on the wiki are just as cruel. They all generally make fun of the terms, to an extent coming up with an extreme, somewhat satirical take on the terms or those who may identify with them.

## Includes More 'Legitimate' Terms

### Aegosexual

The term Aegosexual (formerly Autochorissexual) is included in the wiki, which seems to equate the term to MOGAI genders and orientations. The problem with that being the fact that both terms actually originated from research conducted by A. Bogaert and has been mentioned in a number peer reviewed papers. Because of this, a scientifically backed term and phenomenon is made seemingly comparable to something with, what seems to be, no scientific backing or even research.

## Incorrect References

The site includes references to posts or other websites on all of it's pages, as an extra source of information. While that is normally a good thing, the site often links to the wrong sources, making it harder to find information. The majority of the time, the reference links to a post by a Tumblr user who was coining- often completely unrelated- genders, other than the one's that the article is going over.