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Namuwiki (나무위키) is a Paraguay-based Korean wiki which was created on April 17, 2015. Its name, "Namu" (나무) literally means "tree" in Korean. The wiki uses its own proprietary Wiki software named The Seed. Its motto is to guarantee every users' freedom and rights equally, and to share the knowledge and information.

History
On April 2015, the Rigveda Wiki suffered a community dispute on the copyright status of the content (the owner disliked the CC-BY-NC-SA license) and most of its users moved to Namuwiki. Namuwiki emerged as one of the biggest wikis forked from Rigveda Wiki.

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

In September 2018, the site started displaying advertisements on top of each article, ostensibly to pay for server rental fee.

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 contained approximately 900,000 articles. As of August 8, 2018, the wiki had 589,787 articles (including redirects) and 1,253,744 files.

Namuwiki contains articles about subcultures (the original topic of Rigveda wiki), but also science, scholarship and current events. It doesn't aim to provide verifiable information and acknowledges, on its article about itself, that its extremely permissive policies can cause the content to be incorrect, biased or defamatory, especially when few users are active on a topic. Defamation is nominally disallowed and light sanctions exist for "subjective content".

Namuwiki acknowledges that articles written before April 2015 were imported from Rigveda Wiki and may include copyright infringement or defamation. Disputes on such articles are dealt with by discussion as with other articles.

Administration
The fact that the host of the wiki, Umanle S.R.L, is based in Asunción in Paraguay, has led to doubts on whether legal venues are available to Korean citizens to seek correction of information they consider damaging, given the difficulties both in identifying the individual responsible of the contribution and in holding a foreign entity accountable.

In 2017 the self-administration system collapsed when an elected administrator blocked all the other administrators and unblocked other users, bringing Umanle S.R.L to intervene: an administrator was appointed without election and references to a fork (Alphawiki) were removed. In 2018, direct interventions by Umanle are said to have grown significantly, in particular user blocks and deletions.

"Gender Equalism"
Namuwiki was criticized for its made-up concept about 'Equalism'. On 2016 August, One Namuwiki user made an article about 'equalism'. The article mentioned that equalism, which is a better ideology than feminism because it is less disputed about reverse discrimination, has appeared in the West. Because Megalia, an extremely biased feminist community in the country, had caused large disputes about feminism the same month, this article was considered "anti-megalian". Users who had similar thoughts soon contributed to the article, which now contained misogynistic views and misconceptions about feminism. Though most of the assertions and reference included in the article were false or made up, contents of it were widely spread over Korean society. Internet presses, bbs, and the Justice Party used it to justify their offense towards feminism. The false article existed for longer than 6 months, until the country's Feminist wiki called Femiwiki brought forward specific and definite arguments on January 24, 2017. Soon, it was proved that most of the facts written were false, and the original idea of equalism was mostly fabrication. Later, the disputed article was rewritten at full length. It is now renamed as "Namuwiki gender equalism fabrication case".