The Story of One Piece Wikia

Where it began...
The orginal basis of the Wikia was up long before most other members had come here. It was in a somewhat abandoned state.

During the events of the months leding up to October when the major part of this wikia began to build up, most of its "founding members" belonged to Wikipedia. As the series of One Piece had progressed more and more One Piece pages began to creep onto wikipedia. What orginally started off as a hand full of articles soon bagan to mass into many articles.

Things were okay until several pages got pulled into question for deletetion. After a week of debating the pages pulled up were spared being deleted. However, it was not long before another was put up, one which was valued by certain editors on the Wikipedia One Piece pages. However it was noted during the argument that most of the people involved knew nothing on One Piece and were not prepared to listen to the explainations of others.

Closing the Book...
After loosing a valued page, many of the founding members of this Wikia began to feel uneasy. On Wikipedia you have two sets of rules to listen to. Firstly, there is the Wikipedia general rules (like no vandalising). Then there are the Anime Project guidlines.

It was beginning to also ruffle feathers that whenever one one related to One Piece was put up for deletetion, others were also put up that no one wanted put up (a routine which stll happens even now). It felt like the the editors involved with the One Piece pages were nothing on wikipedia and that we would always be the victums of wikipedia politics. So after some discussion, it was eventually decided the best way to break away from wikipedia was to create our own On-Line Encyclopedia, one we could control. In doing so, we also hoped that it would take the strain off the need to create yet more One Piece pages.

Thus the greater part of this Wikia came into existence. At the start we considered the One Piece paes on wikipedia as our "sister site" while the site was fleshed out. On Jan 1st we ceased refering it to that and began to move away from that idea to become independant.