The SCP Wiki

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Overview

The SCP Foundation is a fictional organization that is the basis of what is commonly referred to as the biggest collaborative writing project ever. All of the works officially related to the SCP Foundation are hosted on the SCP Wiki. These include SCP items, tales, canons, groups of interest, artwork, authors, and all of their related talk pages. There have been thousands of people across the globe and in numerous different languages adding to the SCP wiki and making their own stories about the Foundation. To go over everything related to the SCP Wiki would make this page about six miles long, so I will just be covering the very basics and what makes this project so intriguing.

Basic Lore

SCP items are cataloged and contained by the Foundation to protect the public from knowing of their anomalous properties. These items can be objects, entities, phenomena, or even ideas. SCPs can be completely harmless or have the capability of ending the entire universe. The fact that there are essentially no limits as to what an SCP item can be or do is one of the reasons why the wiki has become so popular. All SCP articles must be written in a specific style that uses formal and scientific language. Articles typically follow the format of item number, object class, special containment procedures, description, and addenda. The purpose of the article can be to intrigue, scare, humor, or elicit any other kind of emotion. The four main object classes are as follows: Safe (object is easily contained), Euclid (containment has some difficulty), Keter (object is very difficult to contain), and Thaumiel (object helps contain other objects). There are other object classes, but they are more rarely used than the main four; all object classes can be found here. The Foundation exists within many different possible realities called canons. Not every SCP exists within every canon, nor is every one linked to a specific canon. It is up to the readers and authors to decide on what exists within what canon. The foundation isn't the only group that knows about anomalous items, and these organizations are called groups of interest (GOIs). Some GOIs create anomalies, some destroy them, some sell them, some worship them, and some use them for their own purposes. There are far too many GOIs to discuss now, but most can be found here. The Foundation also holds imprisoned individuals (called Class-D personnel) and uses them frequently in testing. That was quite a bit to take in, huh? Well that is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the complex lore and worldbuilding of the SCP Wiki, but I would rather you do your own research into the world and discover it on your own.

Site History

The first SCP ever written was first posted to 4chan's /x/ paranormal board in 2007 as a short entry about SCP-173 (a statue that moves when not observed). It was not incredibly well liked by the board's users (likely due to the many spelling and style errors), but slowly more people imitated the style and posted SCPs of their own. This small group decided to move off of 4chan (due to the fact that posts got automatically deleted after a short time) and headed towards greener pastures. After a couple different wiki hosters were tried out, the growing community created the modern wiki using wikidot. Since then, over 8000 SCPs (eight series of 1000) have been written and posted to the site (the newer ones often being much higher quality). The current wiki is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License, meaning that all the works on the wiki are able to be shared and adapted as long as you attribute the work to the original author. This is a great system, but it has caused problems in the past. For instance, in 2020 staff decided to purge all images from the site that were not also under a creative commons license, or whose original creators could not be contacted. Images are a crucial part of the storytelling and ability to visualize SCP items, so this was a major blow to the wiki. Hundreds of images were either changed or removed completely, but thankfully the originals can still be seen using the page's file history or the wayback machine. Some authors have also asked for their articles to be removed from the site, resulting in some iconic SCPs needing to be rewritten to fill the spot. Now that we have the basic lore and site information down, let's look at some beginner-friendly SCPs to start out with.

Good SCPs to Start With

Here are some SCPs from the unofficial starter picks on the wiki (and a few of my own favorites sprinkled in).

For further information, do your own exploring or see the introduction video by TheVolgun below. The video is a little old, but still has plenty of useful information.