Data sources

Every provider ikuwayo! knows about, whether or not it is switched on. A row existing here is not permission to fetch: a provider cannot be made active without a recorded terms review, and the schema enforces that.

Editorial

ikuwayo! editorial

editorial-approved

Text written by ikuwayo! editors. The highest-precedence tier: an approved editorial value is never overwritten by an import.

Licence: CC0-1.0

ikuwayo! demonstration corpus

editorial-approved

Original characters, works and metrics invented for this project so the system can be demonstrated without asserting unsourced facts about real characters. Everything attributed here carries canonical_status = synthetic-demo and is labelled in the UI. It is NOT a stand-in for real data.

Licence: CC0-1.0

Provider adapters

AniList

Disabled

Operator-recorded ranking source for the top-500 female corpus (AniList favourites DESC). A terms review is stored for 人工校驗; missing review no longer blocks ingest. Favourites are normalized within AniList before they inform Icon/Pulse/Discovery.

IKUWAYO_SOURCE_ANILIST_ENABLED is not "true".

Terms: https://anilist.co/terms
Attribution: Data from AniList
Images: cache: false · redistribute: false
Rate limit: 30/min

Unresolved questions

Commercial use of the metadata has not been confirmed, and no image caching or redistribution permission has been established. Until both are resolved in writing this adapter stays disabled and any imported asset reference remains display-denied.

Env: IKUWAYO_SOURCE_ANILIST_ENABLED · Terms reviewed: 2026-08-20

IGDB

Disabled

Game entities, release dates and platform data. Character coverage is thin, which is why IGDB is a work source rather than a character source.

IKUWAYO_SOURCE_IGDB_ENABLED is not "true".

Terms: https://www.igdb.com/api
Attribution: Game data from IGDB
Images: cache: false · redistribute: false
Rate limit: 24/min

Unresolved questions

Requires Twitch client credentials. Redistribution of the metadata in an API of our own has not been confirmed, so the public ikuwayo! API must not expose IGDB-sourced fields until that is resolved.

Env: IKUWAYO_SOURCE_IGDB_ENABLED, IGDB_CLIENT_ID, IGDB_CLIENT_SECRET · Terms reviewed: never

VNDB

Disabled

The only planned source with first-class spoiler-aware traits, which maps directly onto the ikuwayo! spoiler levels. Trait imports must preserve the source spoiler flag rather than flattening it.

IKUWAYO_SOURCE_VNDB_ENABLED is not "true".

Terms: https://vndb.org/d17
Attribution: Visual novel data from VNDB
Images: cache: false · redistribute: false
Rate limit: 20/min

Unresolved questions

The database dump is offered under permissive terms, but per-image rights vary by uploader and are not resolvable from the API. Images therefore stay display-denied regardless of the metadata terms.

Env: IKUWAYO_SOURCE_VNDB_ENABLED, VNDB_API_TOKEN · Terms reviewed: never

Wikidata

Disabled

The first provider turned on for anything beyond a ranking, and the only one whose licensing needed no argument: statements are CC0. Characters are resolved by AniList character ID (P11736), never by name — 287 of the ranked 500 match. It supplies the hair and eye colours the natural-language query has always promised and the ranked corpus never had, and the Chinese names AniList structurally cannot provide. Values are stored as QIDs; the English label beside one is never what the seed maps on. Commons media carries per-file licences and stays out of scope.

IKUWAYO_SOURCE_WIKIDATA_ENABLED is not "true".

Terms: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Attribution: Data from Wikidata (CC0)
Images: cache: false · redistribute: false
Rate limit: 12/min

Unresolved questions

None on the metadata: CC0 permits reuse and redistribution. This adapter is disabled purely because no query configuration has been set, not because of any terms question. Media files on Commons carry individual licences and are out of scope.

Env: IKUWAYO_SOURCE_WIKIDATA_ENABLED, WIKIDATA_USER_AGENT · Terms reviewed: 2026-08-21