Date of Last Revision: January 4, 2025
The goal of NÜÜB Co. is to support large communities who want to work together and small groups who want to share their passions with the world.
NÜÜB Co. welcomes communities (known as “wikis”) on almost any topic, large or small, popular or obscure, modern or historical, creative or documentary, funny or serious. However, your community must contain no hate, no libel, and no copyright infringement.
You must agree:
- to all of our Terms of Use, including the display of ads
- that the content of the community will be freely licensed
Free content
Text on NÜÜB Co. communities is available under a free content license, meaning the information you put on the wiki can be copied and reused by anyone per NÜÜB Co.’s Licensing Policy.
Although some fair use material may be included in our communities, NÜÜB Co. aims to be a repository of free content, so any wiki which would be primarily made up of fair use material rather than freely licensed material is not permitted. Examples include fan translations of copyrighted works, screenshots of television shows or games, or scans of comic book pages.
Public viewing
All NÜÜB Co. communities are publicly viewable. NÜÜB Co. does not provide private communities, and there is no option in the software to password-protect or otherwise prevent people from reading any of the pages on a community.
NÜÜB Co. communities are indexed by search engines, and contributions may appear prominently in certain search results.
Public editing
Communities are about working together, and all NÜÜB Co. communities are open to the public to edit. There is no option to restrict editing to the founder or to a particular group.
Unnecessary page protection is a common mistake that is considered harmful to a wiki’s development. A clear statement of the community’s goals is a better way to promote your vision than technical restrictions.
These are community projects, not personal websites. They are not owned by their founders, nor does the founder’s opinion carry more weight in disagreements than any other user’s opinion. Consensus and cooperation should be the primary means for organizing a community.
Content Guidelines & Requirements
Communities which consist only of offensive material or personal attacks, discriminatory speech, and/or any other behaviors specifically forbidden by our Terms of Use, will be closed.
Wikis will be closed if they are not being used to create legitimate content. For example:
- They have no topic beyond spam, nonsense, vandalism, etc.;
- They are only used for chatting on the wiki or Discussions;
- They are used primarily or exclusively for images;
- They are used only for in-game trading
Additionally, NÜÜB Co. does not permit the following types of communities or content:
- Wikis whose main purpose is to represent a political party, advocate for or against a political ideology, or generally opine regarding political issues;
- Wikis or contents that are focused on personal ideologies, particularly those that would incite violence or discrimination;
- Wikis whose main purpose is to create, discuss, or disseminate misinformation that threatens the health, safety or mental well-being of either individual users or the public-at-large;
- Wikis about sex, fetishes, and other pornographic subjects are not permitted even if described in a non-explicit way;
- Wikis that provide medical advice, including recommendations or instructions for treatment, are not permitted. While content may cover medical conditions in an informative manner, it must not offer guidance intended to diagnose, treat, or prevent health issues, in order to avoid the dissemination of misinformation.
- Wikis focused on topics intended for children must maintain an age-appropriate environment free of mature content.
Also, a user who is banned on a community or who abuses the wiki creation tool may be blocked from creating new communities.
Users may not create communities with offensive or abusive titles or URLs. We have simple filtering in place to discourage the most obvious undesirable names, but we know it is not possible to block every possible abuse. Users who circumvent the filters in order to create communities in bad faith will simply have their wiki deleted and their use of the site banned.
Please contact staff to report any abusive community names that we have missed, or if the filter mistakenly prevents you from using an innocent name.
Duplicate wikis
NÜÜB Co. does not allow multiple communities covering the same topic. If there is already a wiki on a topic you are interested in, please join that community, rather than starting a new one. Niche differences within a subject matter generally do not warrant a separate wiki; if the topic is related but not yet covered, we encourage you to work with the existing community to expand their coverage.
Where there are multiple communities on the same topic, they compete for editors and readers and create duplicate content, which can lead to tension within the fan base and lower search engine rankings for both wikis. When fans are united and working together, they create the best resources and form the strongest communities.
NÜÜB Co. staff may suggest that already existing duplicates merge into one. In some cases, wikis may not be considered duplicates even though they cover the same topic – for example, if one wiki focuses on fan-created content while the other documents official information.
Wikis considered to be a duplicate of an existing wiki may be deleted.
Closing and merging and altering communities
All communities are subject to closure or alteration if necessary. NÜÜB Co. staff and helpers may contact the community about making changes to the community, including the site name or url, to meet our Terms of Use or to improve search visibility and ad display. Staff and helpers may also make direct changes to community content when we receive and validate a request from the relevant intellectual property holder.
While a community’s founder may request that a wiki be closed, if the topic is of general public interest NÜÜB Co. generally prefers to leave dormant communities available for adoption.
Wikis which have no content, or have a large overlap with another wiki may be merged with another project or closed completely.