Community:Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance

The Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance, commonly abbreviated as NIWA, is a collaboration of a network of independent Nintendo-oriented wikis. The alliance was started in early 2010, and has since grown to contain 18 wikis as of May 1, 2011.

History
The Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance was started when Zelda Wiki, a wiki covering The Legend of Zelda series, sought affiliation with Bulbapedia, a wiki covering Pokémon, in January of 2010. A suggestion was made soon after to create a network of independent Nintendo-oriented wikis. This suggestion was agreed upon and soon after, Super Mario Wiki, a wiki containing information about the Mario series, was contacted to join the network with Zelda Wiki and Bulbapedia. The staff of the three wikis collaborated to create the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance, which was finally launched on February 14, 2010.

The wikis
The Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance currently includes 18 different wikis.

NIWA Pokemon.png Bulbapedia
Bulbapedia contains information about Pokémon. It was founded on December 21, 2004, by Liam Pomfret. It includes articles for all species of Pokémon, the various Pokémon games, the Pokémon manga, and more.

NIWA DK.png Donkey Kong Wiki
Donkey Kong Wiki contains information about the Donkey Kong series of video games. It was originally founded at Wikia on May 25, 2008, by a user with the username of Wiki443556. The wiki joined the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance on November 12, 2010, after becoming independent.

NIWA DQ.png Dragon Quest Wiki
Dragon Quest Wiki is the newest NIWA member joining in Late March 2012. The wiki covers the Dragon Quest series and was fairly inactive until Late 2009 on Wikia where a new admin joined and a year later, it went independent.

NIWA Fire Emblem.png Fire Emblem Wiki
Fire Emblem Wiki contains information about the Fire Emblem series of video games. It was founded by Eliwood (also known as Yusei) on August 26, 2010. The wiki joined the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance on April 20, 2011, which was also the day that Fire Emblem: Ankoku Ryuu to Hikari no Tsurugi, the first installment in the Fire Emblem series, was released in Japan.

NIWA Golden Sun.png Golden Sun Universe
Golden Sun Universe contains information about to the Golden Sun series of role-playing fantasy video games. It was founded at Wikia in late 2006, and later moved to become independent and part of NIWA on November 25, 2010.

NIWA Star Fox.png Lylat Wiki
Lylat Wiki (abbreviated "LW") contains information about the Star Fox series of video games. It was founded in early 2010 by Justin Folvarcik. Along with project head Tacopill, Folvarcik made Lylat Wiki independent.

NIWA Metroid.png Metroid Wiki
Metroid Wiki (abbreviated "MW") contains information about the Metroid series of video games. It was founded on January 27, 2010, by Nathanial Rumphol-Janc and Zelda Informer, a website with content related to the Zelda series of video games.

NIWA Nintendo.png NintendoWiki
NintendoWiki (also referred to as "N-Wiki") contains information about Nintendo itself, including articles regarding games and people who have or do work for Nintendo, amongst other things. It was founded on May 12, 2010, by the the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance team.

Nookipedia.png Nookipedia
Nookipedia contains information about the Animal Crossing series of video games. It was originally founded in August 2005 at Wikia. At the time, it was known as Animal Crossing City. Animal Crossing City decided to merge shortly after its fifth year anniversary with an independent wiki known as Animal Crossing Wiki. The merge was due to dissatisfaction with how Wikia was running the wikis that it hosted, including the implementation of a mandatory new skin known as "Oasis". After the merging, the wiki was renamed to Nookipedia.

NIWA Pikmin.png Pikipedia
Pikipedia (also referred to as Pikmin Wiki and abbreviated as "PW") contains information about the Pikmin series of video games. It was founded in December of 2005 by Dark Lord Revan at Wikia. In September of 2010, Pikipedia became an independent wiki.

NIWA Pikmin Fanon.png Pikmin Fanon
Pikmin Fanon (abbreviated "PF") is a wiki for fan stories (also known as fanon) revolving around the Pikmin series of video games. It was founded on November 1, 2008, by Rocky0718 at Wikia, and became independent on September 14, 2010.

NIWA Super Smash Bros.png SmashWiki
SmashWiki contains information about the Smash Bros. series of video games. The wiki was originally two separate wikis; there was SmashWiki, which was founded by Gideon and hosted by Smash World Forums, and there was also Super Smash Bros. Wiki, which was hosted by Wikia and founded by Alexir55. On February 29, 2008, SmashWiki merged with Super Smash Bros. Wiki on Wikia, the result usually referred to as "SmashWikia". Then, on September 28, 2010, SmashWiki became an independent site when many users were not satisfied with the way Wikia was running the site.

NIWA Starfy.png Starfy Wiki
Founded on May 30, 2009 by BattleFranky202, Starfy Wiki focuses on The Legendary Starfy video game series, developed by TOSE for Nintendo. The Wiki will attempt to document all things related to Starfy, from element of storyline, gameplay as well as real-world references.

NIWA Strategy.png StrategyWiki
StrategyWiki contains collaborative video game strategy guides for both Nintendo games and games unrelated to Nintendo. It was founded in December of 2005 by Brandon Suit with the desire to improve on existing strategy guides. In December of 2008, Scott Jacobi founded Abxy LLC to operate and own StrategyWiki as a community.

NIWA Mario.png Super Mario Wiki
Super Mario Wiki contains information about the Mario series of video games. It was founded on August 12th, 2005, by Steve Shinn.

NIWA Wars.png Wars Wiki
Wars Wiki contains information about Nintendo's lesser-known Wars series of video games, which includes Advance Wars, Battalion Wars, Game Boy Wars, and Famicom Wars. It was founded in February of 2009 by JoJo and Wars Central.

NIWA EarthBound.png WikiBound
WikiBound contains information about the Mother/EarthBound series of video games. It was founded in early 2010 by Tacopill.

NIWA Kirby.png Wikirby
Wikirby contains information about the Kirby series of video games. It was founded on January 24, 2010, by Josh LeJeune.

NIWA Zelda.png Zelda Wiki
Zelda Wiki contains information about the Legend of Zelda series of video games, including news regarding the series. It was founded on April 23, 2005, by Jason Rappaport. The site is currently run by a group of Zelda community websites, who are referred to as the "Masterminds".