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SCP Foundation
Type: Collaborative fiction community and protocol Founded: 2008 (originated 2007 on 4chan /x/ board) Status: Active License: CC BY-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike) Scale: 9,800+ SCP objects, 6,300+ Tales, 16 language branches Recognition: Potentially the largest collaborative writing project in human history (American Journalism Review, 2022)
Overview
SCP Foundation is a collaborative fiction project centered on documenting fictional paranormal anomalies through standardized "containment report" format. The project operates as a protocol-governed creative commons without central creative authority.
Governance Architecture
Four-layer quality system:
- Greenlight Policy: New authors pitch concepts to Ideas Critique Forum, require greenlight from 2 experienced reviewers before drafting
- Post-publication community voting: -10 threshold triggers deletion review, -20 enables immediate deletion
- Staff deletion authority: 3 staff votes + 24-hour timer = deletion; emergency bypass for plagiarism/AI content/malicious material
- Cultural norms: Clinical tone convention, standardized formatting
Staff role: Infrastructure only (discipline, licensing, moderation, technical) — NOT creative direction. Creative direction emerges from community voting and cultural norms.
Canon model: "There is no official canon." Operates as "conglomerate of intersecting canons, each with its own internal coherence." No canonical hierarchy enables infinite expansion without continuity errors.
AI policy: Permanent ban on AI-generated content. Summary deletion + permanent ban for violators.
Protocol Features
- Fixed format (standardized containment report structure)
- Open IP (CC-BY-SA licensing)
- Scalable contributions (single article = complete contribution)
- Passive theme (paranormal anomalies = everyday life)
- Thin curation (quality gates without creative gatekeeping)
- Organizational center (single wiki prevents fragmentation)
Timeline
- 2007 — First SCP article (SCP-173) posted anonymously on 4chan /x/ board
- 2008 — Community migrated to Wikidot, establishing permanent wiki infrastructure
- 2025 — Reached 9,800+ SCP objects and 6,300+ Tales across 16 language branches