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. This Wikia was founded in Feburary 15, 2006, by Kuzaya. Althought olny few people edit here but it was mostly abandoned and the founder disappeared for 9 months. In July, group of frustrated Wikipedian editors begin to come here and edit this site.

During the events of the months leading 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 be created on wikipedia. What orginally started off as a hand full of articles soon bagan to mass into many.

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 thanks to the efforts of the editor working on them. However, it was not long before another was put up, one which was valued by certain editors on the Wikipedia One Piece pages. Despite the efforts of the editors, the greater Wikipedia coummunity was involved and soon they found themselves outnumber by others screaming to see that page be deleted. While we sat and rethought about the lost paged, 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 which though are not rules themselves, they are the voice that dictates all anime pages alike.

Several past arguments, including ones about spellings of names such as "Zoro or Zolo" were pulled up to be discussed. By the Anime guideline rules, "Zolo" was the name we were meant to be using without consent. Loopholes were eventually found in the rules that allowed "Zoro" to be kept, but many of those arguing were not happy when the spelling of the name was won. Arguments like this were another problem the founding members were not happy about, articles were slowed down while they were on going debates.

It was beginning to also ruffle feathers that whenever one article 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.

Independance Day..
On Jan 1st we ceased refering it to that and began to move away from that idea to become independent.