WikiDot is an online wiki farm which is currently hosting most active containment fiction communities. This includes the SCP Foundation, Wayward Society, Backrooms Wiki, RPC Authority, Liminal Archives, sandboxes associated with all of those communities, and more. It has been the primary medium through which containment fiction has been written since 2008.
History
WikiDot was founded in 2006 with the help of venture capital startup funding from Pieter Hintjens. It has been successful not only at hosting containment fiction, but also in supporting other communities such as the players of the Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition tabletop role-playing game.
It is unique as a pure-wiki building tool that allows for the creation of custom and personalized websites. This has allowed for containment fiction to flourish as new splinters have broken off to become their own full-fledged communities as confic thought continues to grow among the writers.
The evolution of confic style has been influenced both by WikiDot’s limitations and from its freedoms, early SCP writing was characterized by creative use of the basic Markdown text editing but was then pushed beyond that with the advent of custom CSS created and systematized by more experienced writers and operators.
WikiDot is a mostly stable platform, it had a major blackout in May of 2022 caused by allegedly Russian hackers attacking the platform. This has since led to Russian IP addresses being banned from the platform, leading Russian containment fiction communities to seek alternative options. This decision to ban Russian users has been an unpopular but enduring policy since the downtime ended.
Even before this, WikiDot often was and is unstable. The SCP Foundation achieved widespread popularity following the release of SCP: Containment Breach and WikiDot struggled to cope with the increasing traffic their platform received in its wake. However, the worst downtime issues were localized to the time immediately after the game’s release which prompted WikiDot to begin using AWS hosting.
Michal Frackowiak
WikiDot is owned by Michal Frackowiak one of the individuals who was on the WikiDot team in 2006. He has been trying to sell WikiDot since at least February 27th of 2020, but there has been no public movement on any ownership change since May 29th of that same year.
Citations:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5228862.0 – WikiDot owner discussing getting venture capital funds from Pieter Hintjens and other background information.
http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/ – dnd 5e website
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Wikidot
