The Story of One Piece Wikia

Once Upon a Time
Almost each wikias has a main reason to exist, there is always someone whom inspires a fan to create a wiki basing on his/her work. For example, if George Lucas is not born, they'll be no Star War Wikia, if Jim Hanson is not born, they'll be no Muppet Wikia, if Gene Roddensberry is not born, they'll be no Star Trek Wikia. Yet if Eiichiro Oda is never born, this Wikia will not be made. Eiichiro Oda is the source of this Wikia exinction.

Origin
In Aug, 1997 in Tokyo Japan, a man name Eiichiro Oda, age 23 worked for Shuiesha on the Shonen Jump magazine, here he picked up his pen and begun to draw the frist chapter of One Piece.

The series was know for it's deep details of the story, One Piece has many many topics to cover up as more chapters were released.

Birth of this Wikia
Years after One Piece started the original basic for a OP wikia has exincted long before the present editors. In Feb 2006, an user name Kuyaza created the Wikia but only made one edit before disappearing.

In April, an couple of editors name STREYe, Copaii, and Auquise copied and pasted some articles here from One Piece Wikipedia. However by Augest, they disappeared, leaving this site to decay for 2 monthes. However they left behind some articles which will be a starter point for the future editors, soon these articles were expanded.

The Migrantion from Wikipedia
This site changed forever at the month of October 2006 when a few fusterated Wikipedia editors named Angel, Justyn, Mugiwara Franky, SigmasonicX, and Mureseki came here after conflicts of interests on Wikipedia broke down. They begun to edit this site and add more articles. To begin with, most of the articles on wikipedia were copied and pasted here. Soon another major editors appeared like Joekido, Cody and Battle Franky.

October and the months afterwards marked a harsh time, as this site stuffered from major editing wars and conflict of interests. The Wikia had no rules and set-ups and arguments caused a few editors to leave. Many articles were being added and it became difficuled to catch up. In order to maintain a "universal" reconised naming system, the site had to reject 4Kids dub names and keep the original Japanese names such as "Roronoa Zoro" instead of "Roronoa Zolo".

In early October, an user name Joekido, a stress-out character who recently had his rank on the AP.net stripped came here and srought "revenge" by turning this site into an AP.net clone only to be repaled by other editors. However the site was nearly damaged but Joekido had partically made an current minor impact on the site. The site became "aware" of its status compared to other sites and took steps to ensure it did not just copy other sites. However, there was still one more site that it had deep links directly to the wikia, that had yet to be broken.

Wikipedia No More
The site was still nearly a Wikipedia clone from the October era when several major editors made a miragtion here and still referred to the One Piece pages there as its "sister site". Most information had not changed from being copied over onto the wikia and due to the lack of number of editors, was fast becoming just an out of date alternative to its "sister site".

On Jan 1, the site declared independance from Wikiapedia. At first little seem to change, however until spring of 2007 when the effects of its independance from wikipedia began to become noticable. Finally it has made a long rebound from being a Wikipedia clone and begun to be original. Many pages were given a overhaul and reorganised. Finally after months of work getting away from wikipedia, the site has now succeeded in becoming much more different to what it started as.

Funimation
In March 2007, 4Kids quitted dubbing One Piece, a month later an Texas-based compeny Funimation atopted the series. This brings good news to One Piece commutity. Because the Funimation dub was set to air on Septamber 2007, this site had started to go through an major changes to prepare for the upcoming dub. Since 4Kids severly damaged the series, it's unknown if the series would become popular.