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Namuwiki

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Type of site
  
Wiki

Owner
  
umanle S.R.L.

Available in
  
Korean

Website
  
namu.wiki

Slogan(s)
  
나무위키, 여러분이 가꾸어 나가는 지식의 나무 (Namuwiki, the tree that you grow together)

Alexa rank
  
Global: 538 South Korea: 7 (November 2016)

Namuwiki (Korean: 나무위키) is a Korean wiki in Paraguay which started on April 17, 2015. "Namu" (나무) literally means "tree" in Korean. It uses a Wiki software called The Seed. It was launched to guarantee every users' freedom and rights equally, and to share the knowledge and information.

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History

On April 2015, following a community dispute (Owner against CCL), most of the Rigveda Wiki users left. Most of them rejoined at Namuwiki, which is one of the biggest wikis forked from Rigveda Wiki.

On May 2016, Namu transferred Namuwiki's server managements rights to a new owner, Umanle. He established a company in Paraguay.

Contents

Contents of Namuwiki are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Korea (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 license). As of March 2017, Namuwiki contains approximately 900,000 articles.

References

Namuwiki Wikipedia