Namuwiki

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Namuwiki
나무위키

English version of the logo
Type of site	Wiki
Available in	Korean with machine translations in English and Japanese
Headquarters	Asunción , Paraguay
Owner	umanle S.R.L. (Asunción, Paraguay)
Created by	namu, PPPP, kasio
URL	namu.wiki
Commercial	Yes
Registration	Optional
Launched	17 April 2015; 9 years ago (2015-04-17)
Current status	Online
Content license	CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0 KR

Namuwiki (Korean: 나무위키; lit. tree wiki, Japanese: ナムウィキ) is a Korean language wiki. It was launched on 17 April 2015, is powered by the proprietary wiki software The Seed, and is currently based in Paraguay. Namu (나무; meaning 'tree' in Korean) makes the wiki's name mean "tree wiki" if directly translated into English. According to Similarweb, it is the fifth most visited website in South Korea.^[1]

The material found on it is written in a personal/subjective style that was characteristic of the wiki from which it was forked, the Rigveda Wiki. It has much more lax guidelines than Wikipedia, does not necessarily require references or sources, and has been criticized as being inaccurate and biased.^[2]

As of 5 October 2024, Namuwiki has a total of 6,525,085 normal articles, or ilban munseo (일반 문서), including redirects,^[3] compared to 3,290,720 (including redirects) on the Korean Wikipedia, making it a wiki with 1.98 times more articles compared to the Korean Wikipedia.^[4]