WikiDot is an online wiki farm that has become the primary platform for hosting containment fiction and liminal fiction communities since 2008. Notable communities hosted on WikiDot include the SCP Foundation, Wayward Society, Backrooms Wiki, RPC Authority, Liminal Archives, and their associated sandbox sites. The platform has played a crucial role in developing collaborative ..
Redaction/expungement are literary devices common to containment fiction articles that censor information in order to create mystery, intrigue, and drama. The tactic is associated with containment fiction documents/articles, and not precedent forms of fiction, e.g. The Holders or creepypasta in general. The device originated on 4chan’s /x/ in an effort to further convey a bureaucratic ..
This article is a work in progress. “I can’t speak for others, but to me, my tales are much more personal. An SCP is built according to a preexisting format, and you can usually only go so far with one. A tale, on the other hand, is pure creative potential. I’m defensive about my tales ..
The Society for Containment Fiction (SCF) is a loose social group within the containment fiction space founded by pixelatedHarmony. It functions as a hub for cross-community discussion and related projects. The founder has described the community as “a group of people studying the genre that includes SCP, RPC, the Backrooms, the Liminal Archives, and others ..
The WikiDot Blackout of 2022 was an interruption in WikiDot services beginning on May 19, 2022. It was the longest WikiDot outage known to date and arrested all activity on all major containment fiction platforms for its duration, as well as third-party applications, such as the WikiDot notification service.[1]https://archive.ph/NbBQB This event significantly impacted numerous online ..
The first slot in containment fiction series, commonly known as a 001 entry, holds special significance within these creative communities. These entries typically explore the origins of fictional containment organizations, feature large-scope lore elements, and are portrayed as exceptionally classified in-universe materials available only to those with top credentials. The 001 designation is historically regarded ..
This article is a stub. You can help by creating/editing a page on the UserWiki. The Wayward Society[1] is a containment fiction community depicting the eponymous organization, an American cryptid-hunting group. Articles document how to find cryptid creatures and supernatural phenomena in the wild. The current iteration of the site is largely defunct due to ..
A Main List is the primary vector for organizing the primary contents of a containment fiction writing collection, a long list of all articles usually in numerically chronological order with listed titles. The style was originally designed by the Holders and popularized by the SCP Wiki. Most containment fiction communities have utilized this since then, ..