Content use and rules

Updated 13 November 2026. The project owner approved the licences below. The repository remains private. Operator details and the final privacy notice are unresolved; these licences are not legal clearance for launch.

Reading the wiki

The wiki provides fan reference material about Children of Time. It is not an official source or a substitute for the books. Articles cover book 1 and contain spoilers. Facts and illustrations can contain mistakes. Chapter references help readers check factual claims.

No paid membership, shop, donation collection or advertising service is active. Future commercial services would need their own review and any applicable terms before they are offered.

Article text: CC BY-SA 4.0

The project's original article text is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International, only to the extent the contributors hold rights they can grant. This covers original summaries, infobox wording and captions, not the images themselves or quoted book passages. The full licence text is available here too.

You may copy, adapt and redistribute that licensed text, including commercially, under the licence's conditions. Credit is required, changes must be indicated, and shared adaptations must use the same or a compatible licence. Compliant users keep their granted permissions even if the project later changes direction. Contributors keep their copyright; contributing does not transfer ownership to the operator.

This means the wiki can later be supported by advertising or donations, but other people can also reuse its licensed text commercially. Community work is not made exclusive to the site operator.

How to credit an article

• Name the article and link to its wiki page, or supply the URL in a form suitable for the medium.
• Keep the contributor credits shown in its Credits and reuse section, plus any supplied copyright, licence and other notices required by the licence. Do not replace a named contributor with a generic project credit.
• State CC BY-SA 4.0 and provide its licence link or a copy.
• Say whether you changed the material. Keep existing indications of earlier changes where required.
• When sharing an adaptation, use the same or a compatible licence and do not add restrictions that prevent the licensed reuse.

For example: Adapted from Great Nest, Children of Time Fan Wiki, by the contributors credited on that page. CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: shortened and reorganised. Include the actual page URL, contributor credits and licence link with that notice. This example is not a substitute for the full licence requirements. The repository history records edits, but a private history link is not a substitute for readable public attribution.

Software: MIT

The project's original software, including templates, styles, scripts, tests, workflow code, configuration and associated software documentation, uses the MIT License. Keep its copyright and permission notice when copying the software. The article text and all image files are excluded from this software grant. Third-party software keeps its own licences.

Images and rights not granted here

Images have separate terms recorded by filename in Image permissions. Neither the article-text licence nor the software licence automatically covers them. Do not assume an illustration is cleared for merchandise or other commercial use.

Rights in the novels and any protected third-party material remain with their respective rights holders. These grants do not license quoted book passages, protected underlying fictional material, trademarks or a person's identity. Fan status, credit and AI generation do not themselves supply permission from those rights holders.

These notices do not create copyright in facts, public-domain material or purely generated elements where no copyright exists. The status of AI output and human contributions can differ between jurisdictions. No exclusive ownership of every generated element is claimed. Uses already allowed by applicable law are not restricted by these notices.

Contributions and moderation

The repository is currently private, so public GitHub submissions are not open. See Contributing for the licence agreement and review process for invited contributors and future public submissions.

Contributions must be relevant, sourced and submitted with the necessary rights. No harassment, spam, private personal information, copied articles, book files, chapter scans or bulk unchecked submissions. Maintainers may ask for evidence, decline proposals or remove unsuitable material.

A pull request is a proposal, not permission to publish. Outside contributors do not receive direct control over the site. Any AI assistance must be disclosed to reviewers and checked against the sources.

External services and reports

Following a GitHub or other external link takes you to a separate service with its own rules and privacy practices. Those services do not become part of this wiki's operator merely because they are linked.

Copyright, privacy and removal requests go to the addresses on the Legal notice and are handled privately. Nothing on this page overrides rights that applicable law gives you.