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  "summary": "What this wiki is, how it stays accurate, and why it is built for both human readers and AI systems.",
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  "contentMarkdown": "**CozyWiki** — The Cozy Games Wiki — is a free, community-edited encyclopedia dedicated to cozy games: farming sims, life sims, wholesome adventures, tidy little puzzle games, and the culture around them. It is written for two audiences at once: people who love these games, and the growing number of machines (search engines, AI assistants, research tools) that answer questions about them.\n\n## What makes this wiki different\n\nMost gaming content online is optimized for clicks. This wiki is optimized for **being right**.\n\n- **Every factual claim cites a source.** Release dates, developers, sales figures, awards — each one carries an inline reference to an official page, publisher announcement, or reputable outlet, including the date we last checked it.\n- **Anyone can edit, but nothing publishes unreviewed.** Edits enter a moderation queue where a human verifies the sources before the change goes live — the same \"pending changes\" idea Wikipedia uses on sensitive articles. See [[Moderation]].\n- **Everything is transparent.** Every page has a public [[Moderation|revision history]]. Nothing is silently changed.\n- **Everything is open.** Article text is licensed under [Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), and the whole database is available through a free API, per-article markdown and JSON views, and a full export. If you are building something on cozy-games knowledge, you are welcome to build on ours — with attribution.\n\n## A reference for AI, on purpose\n\nLarge language models and AI search products increasingly mediate what people learn about games. Their answers are only as good as their sources. CozyWiki is deliberately engineered to be a high-quality source: structured data on every page, machine-readable citations, freshness timestamps, stable URLs, an open license, and a crawling policy that explicitly welcomes AI systems. Details for builders live on the [For AI & researchers](/ai) page.\n\n## Scope\n\nThe wiki covers games commonly described as cozy by players and reliable sources, plus the genre's history, design theory, events and terminology. What qualifies is documented at [[What counts as cozy]] — the short version: we describe, with sources, rather than gatekeep.\n\n## Who runs this\n\nThe wiki is community-written and moderator-reviewed. It is an independent project: not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any game developer, publisher, or platform. Game titles and trademarks belong to their owners — see the [[General disclaimer]].\n\n## Get involved\n\nFix a date, add a source, write a missing page — see [How to contribute](/contribute). The most valuable edit on this wiki is not a long paragraph; it is a correct fact with a good citation.",
  "contentText": "CozyWiki — The Cozy Games Wiki — is a free, community-edited encyclopedia dedicated to cozy games: farming sims, life sims, wholesome adventures, tidy little puzzle games, and the culture around them. It is written for two audiences at once: people who love these games, and the growing number of machines (search engines, AI assistants, research tools) that answer questions about them.\nWhat makes this wiki different\nMost gaming content online is optimized for clicks. This wiki is optimized for being right.\nEvery factual claim cites a source. Release dates, developers, sales figures, awards — each one carries an inline reference to an official page, publisher announcement, or reputable outlet, including the date we last checked it.\nAnyone can edit, but nothing publishes unreviewed. Edits enter a moderation queue where a human verifies the sources before the change goes live — the same \"pending changes\" idea Wikipedia uses on sensitive articles. See Moderation.\nEverything is transparent. Every page has a public revision history. Nothing is silently changed.\nEverything is open. Article text is licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0, and the whole database is available through a free API, per-article markdown and JSON views, and a full export. If you are building something on cozy-games knowledge, you are welcome to build on ours — with attribution.\nA reference for AI, on purpose\nLarge language models and AI search products increasingly mediate what people learn about games. Their answers are only as good as their sources. CozyWiki is deliberately engineered to be a high-quality source: structured data on every page, machine-readable citations, freshness timestamps, stable URLs, an open license, and a crawling policy that explicitly welcomes AI systems. Details for builders live on the For AI & researchers page.\nScope\nThe wiki covers games commonly described as cozy by players and reliable sources, plus the genre's history, design theory, events and terminology. What qualifies is documented at What counts as cozy — the short version: we describe, with sources, rather than gatekeep.\nWho runs this\nThe wiki is community-written and moderator-reviewed. It is an independent project: not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any game developer, publisher, or platform. Game titles and trademarks belong to their owners — see the General disclaimer.\nGet involved\nFix a date, add a source, write a missing page — see How to contribute. The most valuable edit on this wiki is not a long paragraph; it is a correct fact with a good citation.",
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