Incels Wiki,[1] is an encyclopedia of Template:W related topics in the English language. It was meant to be a repository of academia, folk theories, memes, people, and art, associated with involuntary celibates. Involuntary celibates are defined on Incel Wiki as being those who for an extended period of time could not establish a romantic and / or sexual relationship, even after approaching a wide variety of people.
Most of the wiki material is licensed under a Creative Commons license, and most of the original authors, including a co-creator. were banned by a non-active person on the wiki. The original authors and the co-creator then moved to incelwiki.com to continue where they left off.
Creation
It was first created by William and Master in June 2018 as a place to be non-ideological about incels.
Wiki Licenses
The authors of the vast, vast majority of incels.wiki content released their writing under a Creative Commons license, on incels.wiki itself
- Wiki co-creator William released his writing under a CC0 aka public domain license[2]
- Current admin Altmark22 released his writing under a CC-BY-4 License[3]
- Thebreeze/Thebreeze2 released his/her writing under a CC0 aka public domain license[4]
- Jet112 released his writing under a CC0 license aka public domain license[5]
- Bibipi released his writing under a CC-BY-4 License[6]
Some of the material on incels.wiki is under a non-commercial license from the love-shy.com (now love-shy.net) wiki.
Domain name changes
In November 2018, the domain named changed from the first domain name: Incels.info, to Incels.Wiki.[7] Possibly due to Afilias dropping Incels.me, and the Incels.co administrators moving all the sites on their server off Afilias owned TLDs out of a protective mechanism.
Account granting
Registration takes place through granting anonymous IP editors registration after they make good edits.
Academic and media citation
Academic institutions publishing works citing Incel Wiki include: UA Little Rock, RWTH Aachen University, and Uppssala University. It has also been cited in the news magazine: New Statesman.
References
- ↑ https://twitter.com/incelswiki
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210125041641/https://incels.wiki/w/User:William
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200518012354/https://incels.wiki/w/User:Altmark22
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200516192216/https://incels.wiki/w/User:Thebreeze2
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200518025143/https://incels.wiki/w/User_talk:Jet2
- ↑ https://archive.is/IzRR
- ↑ https://Incels.co/threads/incel-wiki-url-change.88924/