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[[File:NIWA logo.png|thumb|The NIWA logo, with the background featuring the hiragana にわ, which means "garden"]]
The '''Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance''', or '''NIWA''' for short, is a network of various wikis and affiliated websites to chronicle the universes made by [[Nintendo]] that are independent from larger wiki groups such as [[wikipedia:Fandom (website)|Fandom]]

==History==
The idea of a Nintendo wiki network began as an expansion of what was originally going to be an affiliation between [[zeldapedia:Main Page|ZeldaWiki]] and [[bulbapedia:Main Page|Bulbapedia]]. After some deliberation, it was instead decided that instead of a minor affiliation, an entire network of independent Nintendo-based wikis could be created, and [[mariowiki:Main Page|Super Mario Wiki]] was shortly asked to join as another founding member, and the NIWA was launched on February 14, 2010.

[[WikiBound]] joined the NIWA on November 5, 2010 and became the 12th member of the NIWA, during "[[Nwiki:Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance#Third Wave:The Great Influx|The Great Influx]]", a period where 10 wikis rapidly joined the NIWA in the span of two months.

Since then, the NIWA continuously expanded and other wikis joined the alliance. The list of other wikis include: [[MetroidWiki:Main Page|Metroid Wiki]], [[WiKirby:Main Page|WiKirby]], [[WarsWiki:Main Page|Wars Wiki]], [[LylatWiki:Main Page|Lylat Wiki]], [[Pikipedia:Main Page|Pikipedia and Pikmin Fanon]], [[StrategyWiki:Main Page|StrategyWiki]], [[SmashWiki:Main Page|SmashWiki]], [[Nookipedia:Main Page|Nookipedia]], [[GoldenSun:Main Page|Golden Sun Universe]], [[NWiki:Main Page|NintendoWiki]], [[FireEmblem:Main Page|Fire Emblem Wiki]], [[StarfyWiki:Main Page|Starfy Wiki]], [[FZeroWiki:Main Page|F-Zero Wiki]], [[Icaruspedia:Main Page|Icaruspedia]], Dragon Quest Wiki, [[HardDropTetris:Main Page|Hard Drop Tetris]], [[inkipedia:Main Page|Inkipedia]], [[armswiki:Main Page|ARMS Institute]], [[xenowiki:Main Page|Xeno Series Wiki]], [[dragaliawiki:Dragalia Lost Wiki|Dragalia Lost Wiki]], [[ukikipedia:Main Page|Ukikipedia]],  [[drawntolifewiki:Main Page|Drawn to Life Wiki]], and most recently [[khwiki:Main Page|Kingdom Hearts Wiki]], bringing the total up to 27. Donkey Kong Wiki is the only member to be defunct within the NIWA, having been merged into Super Mario Wiki. Dragon Quest Wiki meanwhile was expelled from the NIWA in an unanimous vote due to inappropriate conduct from the new host.

==Name==
NIWA's name, an acronym of Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance, is the romanized Japanese word for "garden". This is fitting as it symbolises the natural growth of the community around the fandoms that make it up, as well as Nintendo's Japanese origins.

==External links==
[http://www.niwanetwork.org/ The NIWA main page, containing links to all 25 members of the NIWA]
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