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Namuwiki (Korean: 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. It is currently the second largest wiki in the Korean language.


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History
On April 2015, one of the largest subculture wiki in Korea, Rigveda Wiki, suffered a community dispute on the copyright status of the content. The site owner, Cheongdong, had been secretly changing the user agreement to privatize Rigveda Wiki for himself. This in turn resulted in a huge vandalism of all articles from the users, prompting the website to temporarily bring down the servers. Namuwiki was created by the fork of Rigveda Wiki's database before its vandalism. Having taken Rigveda Wiki's database on the April 11th, Namuwiki launched on April 17th. The article count of Namuwiki surpassed that of Rigveda Wiki on the April 25th, and surpassed Rigveda Wiki's original article count on May 12th.

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As of January 2019, Namuwiki's total article count is at 631,851.

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Articles
Like its predecessor Rigveda Wiki, Namuwiki's narrative in articles are lightly worded and are mostly subculture based. Many of the articles contain references to subculture knowledge from various places, including movies, games, and online memes. It has an unique form of narrative through the use of a strikethrough, where strikethroughs are primarily applied on sentences that are written on the article as part of a joke.

Projects
Namuwiki contains over 100 projects in various areas. Areas that it cover include games, transportation, military, sports, history, education, etc. As of January 2019, there are a total of 143 projects in Namuwiki.

Press Coverage
On March 2017, MK News wrote an article about Namuwiki, talking about its 'humorous' nature of the articles. However, it also noted that while the number of articles are something to take note of, the loose accuracy regulations that the site has in comparison to Korean Wikipedia has made it a danger zone for biased opinions.

On January 9th, 2019, Korean politician formally announced that he had deleted an article about himself within Namuwiki himself due to possibly containing 'false elements' about himself.