Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance (German)

The German section of Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance, or NIWA for short, and also known as the NIWA Network, is a of wikis and their associated websites written in, that aims to chronicle all things , supporting wikis independent of large corporate wiki groups or organisations such as Wikia.

All NIWA Network wikis are ly owned and operated, and separately hosted. Individually, they maintain their own unique design, core values, and established traditions.

Founding

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Inductees
As of June 2018, there are two members of the German Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance; MarioWiki and Zeldapendium. There was a third member, NintendoWiki, but they were subsequently excluded due to inactivity.

Name
The NIWA acronym is derived from the English Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance. The word 'niwa' is also romanised Japanese for 'garden', and symbolises the natural growth of the community around the wiki communities that make up NIWA. This is fitting, given Nintendo's Japanese origins, with romanisation of Japanese being an important aspect of all three wikis that currently make up the network.

Legal
The content contained on the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance (NIWA) website is . It goes on to state: NIWA is in no way associated with . In places where copyrighted Nintendo content is presented we do so with fair terms of use, whereby it is not used commercially for gain and where it does not impede Nintendo's right to sell the depicted material.

Furthermore the member wikis of NIWA are not bound by a single license. Therefore please refer to the individual wikis for their licensing and content duplication policies.

NIWA owned

 * Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance — the original English collective
 * Network italiano wiki indipendenti Nintendo (NiwiN) — the subsequent Italian-language sub-division

Other alliances

 * Square Enix Independent Wiki Alliance (SEIWA)
 * Sci-fi Independent Wiki Alliance
 * Sony Computer Independent Wiki Alliance (SCIWA)
 * Valve Wiki Network (VWN)