README.md

---
license: cc-by-sa-3.0
language:
- en
pretty_name: Secure, Contain, Protect
tags:
- scp
- scp-foundation
- creative-writing
- fiction
- horror
- wiki
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
task_categories:
- text-generation
- text-classification
- fill-mask
- text-retrieval
- sentence-similarity
- feature-extraction
- tabular-regression
- text-ranking
configs:
- config_name: pages
  data_files: data/parquet/pages.parquet
  default: true
- config_name: page_tags
  data_files: data/parquet/page_tags.parquet
- config_name: page_alternate_titles
  data_files: data/parquet/page_alternate_titles.parquet
---

# Secure, Contain, Protect

A structured snapshot of the **English [SCP Foundation Wiki](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/)** — every content page (SCPs, tales, hubs, GOI formats, essays and art) created between **2008 and 2026**, harvested from the [Crom](https://crom.avn.sh/) GraphQL API. **19,438 pages** by **3,479 credited authors**, each with its raw Wikidot **source text**, rating, vote and comment counts, tags, authorship, alternate titles, and per-credit **attributions** (the credited author(s), distinct from whoever posted the page).

User/author pages, hidden pages, and non-content categories are filtered out; only the rendered HTML is omitted (the raw `source` is included so you can render or parse it yourself). Snapshot date: **2026-06-03**.

## Dataset structure

Three tables, published as one Parquet file each — flat columns throughout, except `pages.attributions`, which is a JSON array of credits.

**`pages`** — one row per content page (19,438 rows):

| column | type | notes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `url` | string | canonical Wikidot URL (primary key) |
| `wikidot_id` | string | Wikidot's internal page id |
| `title` | string | |
| `rating` | double | net votes (nullable) |
| `vote_count` | int | |
| `category` | string | always `_default` (content pages) |
| `created_at` | timestamp | UTC |
| `revision_count` | int | |
| `comment_count` | int | |
| `thumbnail_url` | string | nullable |
| `parent_url` | string | parent page, if any (nullable) |
| `created_by_crom_id` | string | null if the author account was deleted |
| `created_by_display_name` | string | |
| `created_by_unix_name` | string | |
| `created_by_wikidot_id` | string | |
| `source` | string | **raw Wikidot markup** |
| `summary` | string | author-provided summary (often null) |
| `attributions` | json | array of credits `{type, user_display_name, date, order}`; `type` ∈ AUTHOR / REWRITE / TRANSLATOR / SUBMITTER |
| `fetched_at` | timestamp | UTC; when the row was crawled |

**`page_tags`** — `(page_url, position, tag)`, 175,007 rows.

**`page_alternate_titles`** — `(page_url, idx, title, source)`, 10,465 rows.

Join the children to `pages` on `page_url = url`.

## Use the published dataset

Pull it straight from the Hub — no local build required.

```python
# 🤗 datasets
from datasets import load_dataset

pages = load_dataset("ozefe/secure-contain-protect", "pages", split="train")
tags  = load_dataset("ozefe/secure-contain-protect", "page_tags", split="train")
```

```python
# pandas / polars, read directly from the Hub
import pandas as pd

pages = pd.read_parquet("hf://datasets/ozefe/secure-contain-protect/data/parquet/pages.parquet")
```

```sql
-- DuckDB, query the Hub without downloading
SELECT title, rating
FROM 'hf://datasets/ozefe/secure-contain-protect/data/parquet/pages.parquet'
ORDER BY rating DESC
LIMIT 10;
```

```bash
# Or download every file locally
huggingface-cli download ozefe/secure-contain-protect --repo-type dataset --local-dir scp-data
```

A quick join — the most common tags on the highest-rated SCPs:

```python
import duckdb

con = duckdb.connect()
base = "hf://datasets/ozefe/secure-contain-protect/data/parquet"
print(con.execute(f"""
    SELECT t.tag, count(*) n
    FROM '{base}/pages.parquet' p
    JOIN '{base}/page_tags.parquet' t ON t.page_url = p.url
    WHERE p.rating > 1000
    GROUP BY t.tag ORDER BY n DESC LIMIT 10
""").fetchall())
```

The `attributions` column is a JSON array — unnest it to get the real credited authors
(distinct from `created_by_*`, which is whoever posted the page):

```sql
SELECT title, a.user_display_name, a.type
FROM 'pages.parquet', unnest(from_json(attributions,
        '[{"user_display_name": "VARCHAR", "type": "VARCHAR", "date": "VARCHAR", "order": "INTEGER"}]')) AS t(a)
WHERE url = 'http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-682';
-- Dr Gears (AUTHOR), Epic Phail Spy (AUTHOR)
```

## Build it yourself

The repository ships the full pipeline: crawl -> export -> report. Requires **Python 3.14+** (the Crom GraphQL API client [`thaumiel`](https://pypi.org/project/thaumiel/) needs it).

```bash
python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
cd src
```

**1. Download the data** into DuckDB (`../data/scp_dataset.duckdb`). The crawl is per-year, resumable (the database is the checkpoint), and Ctrl+C-safe:

```bash
python scp_dataset.py 2008  # a single year
for y in $(seq 2008 2026); do python scp_dataset.py "$y"; done  # the whole archive
```

**2. Export to Parquet** — one file per table in `../data/parquet/`:

```bash
python export_parquet.py
```

**3. Statistics & plots** — writes `../images/*.png` and the `STATISTICS.md` report below:

```bash
python generate_report.py
```

> Crom meters requests against a 300,000-point budget that resets every 5 minutes; one full year costs only a few thousand points, so the whole archive fits comfortably. The crawler logs the remaining quota as it goes.

## How it was built

Pages are selected server-side from Crom GraphQL API with: URL on `scp-wiki.wikidot.com`, Wikidot category `_default`, `is_hidden = false`, and `is_user_page = false`. Per page the crawler requests the free fields plus the costly `source`, `summary`, `alternate_titles`, and `attributions` (the latter stored as a JSON column); it skips only `text_content` (rendered HTML). Timestamps are stored as UTC. See [`src/scp_dataset.py`](src/scp_dataset.py).

## License & attribution

The SCP Foundation Wiki is licensed under **[Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)**, and this dataset — which contains that source text — is released under the **same license**. If you use it, you must attribute the SCP Foundation Wiki and the individual authors (see the `created_by_*` columns and the license boxes embedded in each page's `source`), and share derivatives under CC BY-SA 3.0. Data accessed via the [Crom GraphQL API](https://crom.avn.sh/). This dataset is an unofficial, fan-made compilation and is not affiliated with the SCP Wiki administration.

## The SCP Foundation Wiki in Numbers

_SCP Wiki content pages · 2008–2026 · n = 19,438 · via Crom._

A statistical tour of every content page (SCPs, tales, hubs, GOI formats and more) on the English SCP Wiki, built from the Crom API. Each figure below is followed by the conclusion it supports.

### Content created per year

![Content created per year](images/pages_per_year.png)

**Takeaway.** The wiki grew from 298 pages in 2008 to a peak around 2025, 19,438 in all. SCPs are the backbone but tales now make up roughly a third of yearly output; 2026 is a partial year.

### Object classes

![Object classes](images/object_classes.png)

**Takeaway.** Euclid ('anomalous but containable') is the plurality at 3,431, just ahead of Safe (3,084); Keter is a distant third. The catch-all 'esoteric-class' has overtaken every named class except the big three.

### Most common themes

![Most common themes](images/top_themes.png)

**Takeaway.** Entity descriptors dominate — 'sapient', 'humanoid' and 'alive' lead — followed by genre tags like horror and mind-affecting. Comedy ranks surprisingly high, a reminder the wiki is not all grimdark.

### Rating distribution

![Rating distribution](images/rating_distribution.png)

**Takeaway.** Ratings are extremely right-skewed: a median of 69 against a maximum of 10,758 (SCP-173). Only 46 pages sit below zero — the community deletes weak work, so what remains is heavily curated.

### Article length

![Article length](images/length_distribution.png)

**Takeaway.** Article length is roughly log-normal around a median of 10,398 characters (a few pages of text), with a long tail of giant hubs and anthologies reaching 199,994 characters.

### Authorship is a power law

![Authorship is a power law](images/author_pareto.png)

**Takeaway.** Counting every credited author (not just whoever posted the page), contribution is steeply unequal: the most prolific 2% hold 30% of all author credits, while 1,830 authors have a single credit. A small core sustains the wiki.

### Does length buy quality? No

![Does length buy quality? No.](images/rating_vs_length.png)

**Takeaway.** Rating and article length are essentially uncorrelated (r = -0.01). The median rating is flat across the whole length range — a longer article is not a better-rated one. Concept and execution, not word count, drive a page's score.

### Ratings fall with each cohort

![Ratings fall with each cohort](images/rating_by_year.png)

**Takeaway.** Average rating slides from 511 in 2008 to 36 in 2026. This is mostly an age effect — older pages have had years to accumulate up-votes — rather than proof that newer writing is worse; the median falls far more gently than the mean.

### Danger sells

![Danger sells](images/rating_by_class.png)

**Takeaway.** The more dangerous the classification, the higher the average score: Apollyon (224) and Keter top the table, while Safe and Neutralized trail. Readers reward existential threat over the mundane.

### Prolific vs. acclaimed authors

![Prolific vs. acclaimed authors](images/prolific_vs_acclaimed.png)

**Takeaway.** Counting every credited author (co-authors included), output and acclaim remain different games: the most prolific cluster at modest average ratings, while the highest-rated are comparatively selective — bubble size (total score) shows a few writers manage both volume and quality.

### Co-authorship over time

![Co-authorship over time](images/coauthorship_over_time.png)

**Takeaway.** Co-authorship has climbed from near zero to about 10% of pages in recent years — modern SCP is increasingly a team effort (2026 is a partial year). Early collaboration is undercounted: the attribution metadata recording co-authors is a later convention.

### Bigger teams, higher ratings

![Bigger teams, higher ratings](images/rating_by_team.png)

**Takeaway.** Median rating rises with team size — from 68 for solo pages to 103 for the largest teams. Collaboration correlates with a warmer reception, though the most ambitious projects also tend to attract co-authors.

### How themes cluster

![How themes cluster](images/tag_cooccurrence.png)

**Takeaway.** Themes form clear clusters. The strongest pairing is 'sapient' + 'humanoid': entity descriptors (humanoid / sapient / alive) co-occur tightly, forming a 'monster' cluster distinct from the genre tags.

### How authors collaborate

![How authors collaborate](images/collaboration_network.png)

**Takeaway.** Co-authorship forms tight clusters around a few hubs — Ralliston is the most connected. Node size is total pages, edge weight is shared pages; the modern wiki is a densely woven collaborative network, not a crowd of soloists.

### Per-year summary

| Year | Pages | SCPs | Tales | Authors | Avg rating | Top-rated page |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2008 | 298 | 237 | 24 | 50 | 511 | SCP-173 |
| 2009 | 376 | 248 | 66 | 114 | 301 | SCP-049 |
| 2010 | 393 | 206 | 132 | 127 | 255 | SCP-096 |
| 2011 | 488 | 281 | 172 | 127 | 241 | SCP-1000 |
| 2012 | 940 | 571 | 320 | 248 | 227 | SCP-____-J |
| 2013 | 744 | 391 | 296 | 163 | 205 | SCP-2000 |
| 2014 | 780 | 332 | 328 | 168 | 182 | SCP-2317 |
| 2015 | 622 | 332 | 239 | 177 | 220 | ●●\|●●●●●\|●●\|● |
| 2016 | 648 | 306 | 254 | 192 | 157 | SCP-2316 |
| 2017 | 1,023 | 547 | 339 | 248 | 187 | SCP-3008 |
| 2018 | 1,686 | 904 | 580 | 405 | 149 | REDACTED PER PROTOCOL 4000-ESHU |
| 2019 | 1,404 | 740 | 478 | 366 | 118 | SCP-4205 |
| 2020 | 1,424 | 721 | 485 | 366 | 114 | SCP-5000 |
| 2021 | 1,583 | 859 | 489 | 411 | 103 | SCP-6001 |
| 2022 | 1,738 | 1,001 | 522 | 491 | 83 | SCP-7000 |
| 2023 | 1,325 | 672 | 496 | 383 | 62 | SCP-7819 |
| 2024 | 1,289 | 629 | 485 | 407 | 62 | SCP-8980 |
| 2025 | 1,785 | 934 | 630 | 563 | 50 | SCP-9000 |
| 2026 | 892 | 556 | 207 | 375 | 36 | National Fog Safety Initiative |

**Takeaway.** Output and contributor counts climb together — more authors, more pages — while average rating declines with each younger cohort (an age effect, not a quality one).

### Top 15 highest-rated pages

| # | Title | Rating | Votes | Comments | Author | Year |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | SCP-173 | 10,758 | 11,854 | 2,039 | Lt Masipag | 2008 |
| 2 | ●●\|●●●●●\|●●\|● | 7,150 | 7,316 | 613 | LurkD | 2015 |
| 3 | SCP-049 | 5,547 | 6,035 | 700 | Gabriel Jade | 2009 |
| 4 | SCP-____-J | 5,247 | 5,717 | 742 | Communism will win | 2012 |
| 5 | SCP-096 | 4,792 | 5,006 | 566 | Dr Dan | 2010 |
| 6 | SCP-055 | 4,655 | 4,753 | 502 | xthevilecorruptor | 2008 |
| 7 | SCP-682 | 4,210 | 5,056 | 1,057 | Dr Gears | 2008 |
| 8 | SCP-5000 | 4,195 | 4,485 | 446 | Tanhony | 2020 |
| 9 | SCP-087 | 3,817 | 3,997 | 466 | Zaeyde | 2009 |
| 10 | SCP-3008 | 3,725 | 3,819 | 353 | Mortos | 2017 |
| 11 | SCP-106 | 3,679 | 3,873 | 643 | Dr Gears | 2010 |
| 12 | SCP-999 | 3,494 | 3,988 | 305 | ProfSnider | 2009 |
| 13 | SCP-093 | 3,402 | 3,566 | 238 | far2 | 2008 |
| 14 | REDACTED PER PROTOCOL 4000-ESHU | 3,359 | 3,569 | 441 | PeppersGhost | 2018 |
| 15 | SCP-914 | 3,280 | 3,366 | 218 | far2 | 2008 |

**Takeaway.** The canon is front-loaded with early classics — SCP-173, SCP-049, SCP-682 — that have compounded votes for over a decade, alongside a few modern breakouts like SCP-5000.

### Top 15 authors (all credited authors)

| # | Author | Pages | Avg rating | Total rating | Co-authored | Best-rated work |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Uncle Nicolini | 341 | 109 | 37,235 | 35% | SCP-5555 |
| 2 | HarryBlank | 251 | 148 | 37,031 | 23% | SCP-7000 |
| 3 | RJB_R | 200 | 112 | 22,450 | 0% | SCP-1833 |
| 4 | Ralliston | 182 | 93 | 16,858 | 45% | SCP-6747 |
| 5 | Tanhony | 160 | 260 | 41,537 | 4% | SCP-5000 |
| 6 | djkaktus | 152 | 445 | 67,646 | 13% | SCP-1730 |
| 7 | Doctor Cimmerian | 145 | 165 | 23,876 | 19% | Cimmerian-Kaktus Proposal |
| 8 | Communism will win | 140 | 222 | 31,053 | 1% | SCP-____-J |
| 9 | Dr Gears | 138 | 336 | 46,412 | 8% | SCP-682 |
| 10 | Rounderhouse | 135 | 235 | 31,732 | 22% | SCP-6000 |
| 11 | DrClef | 132 | 323 | 42,659 | 11% | SCP-2317 |
| 12 | daveyoufool | 130 | 212 | 27,508 | 3% | SCP-TTKU-J (which is a thing that kills you) |
| 13 | DarkStuff | 128 | 103 | 13,120 | 21% | SCP-6500 |
| 14 | A Random Day | 119 | 165 | 19,631 | 13% | SCP-3000 |
| 15 | Zyn | 115 | 146 | 16,759 | 35% | SCP-348 |

**Takeaway.** Crediting every author (co-authors, and people who never posted their own work) reshuffles the leaderboard versus a naive by-poster count — and the co-authored share shows how collaboratively each writer works.

### Top co-author duos

| # | Author A | Author B | Shared pages | Avg rating |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | HarryBlank | Placeholder McD | 25 | 180 |
| 2 | Jasiu06 | Ralliston | 22 | 75 |
| 3 | Ralliston | Trotskyeet | 16 | 127 |
| 4 | Ben Counter | Pacific Obadiah | 13 | 36 |
| 5 | J Dune | PlaguePJP | 13 | 312 |
| 6 | Grigori Karpin | HarryBlank | 13 | 234 |
| 7 | DrAkimoto | MalyceGraves | 12 | 65 |
| 8 | LORDXVNV | Ralliston | 11 | 171 |
| 9 | DarkStuff | Uncle Nicolini | 10 | 116 |
| 10 | JakdragonX | Ralliston | 10 | 117 |
| 11 | AnAnomalousWriter | Ecronak | 9 | 273 |
| 12 | Liryn | Placeholder McD | 9 | 525 |

**Takeaway.** The wiki's tightest writing partnerships — recurring duos that have co-authored many pages together, several rating well above the site median.

### Most collaborative authors

| # | Author | Distinct co-authors | Co-authored pages |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | syuzhet | 317 | 25 |
| 2 | Elenee FishTruck | 232 | 15 |
| 3 | Uncle Nicolini | 133 | 119 |
| 4 | Ralliston | 103 | 81 |
| 5 | Lt Flops | 95 | 38 |
| 6 | LORDXVNV | 82 | 28 |
| 7 | Dino--Draws | 78 | 22 |
| 8 | Rhineriver | 73 | 4 |
| 9 | stormbreath | 72 | 16 |
| 10 | PeppersGhost | 70 | 12 |
| 11 | kura_art | 70 | 2 |
| 12 | Pedagon | 70 | 16 |
| 13 | Prismal | 64 | 21 |
| 14 | Elenee Fishtruck | 62 | 3 |
| 15 | HarryBlank | 62 | 57 |

**Takeaway.** The community's connectors — authors who have written with the widest circle of collaborators, knitting otherwise separate clusters together.

### Top rewriters

| # | Rewriter | Pages rewritten | Avg rating |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Voct | 30 | 303 |
| 2 | Uncle Nicolini | 13 | 94 |
| 3 | Communism will win | 10 | 329 |
| 4 | thedeadlymoose | 6 | 661 |
| 5 | Queerious | 5 | 58 |
| 6 | Drewbear | 5 | 309 |
| 7 | DrClef | 5 | 1085 |
| 8 | Quikngruvn | 5 | 275 |
| 9 | SimpleCadence | 5 | 261 |
| 10 | JakdragonX | 5 | 133 |
| 11 | Aelanna | 5 | 236 |
| 12 | Tstaffor | 4 | 263 |

**Takeaway.** The canon's caretakers: a small group does most of the rewriting that keeps the early, heavily-trafficked articles current.