One Piece Wiki:Overview

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 first 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 existed long before the present editors. In Feb 2006, a user named Kuyaza created the Wikia but only made one edit before disappearing.

In April 7th 2006, STAREYe made one edit on the main page before disappearing until March 24 2007. In April 11th 2006, an user name Coopaii created the Straw Hat Pirate page which is the oldest page in the One Piece Wikia, created the spoiler template, setting up the first picture in the main page, he set up few info box templates, and created the Luffy D. Monkey page. In August 6 2006, a user named Aquarius505 worked mainly on the main page, did edits in the Luffy page, set up the Straw Hat Project page which was eventually deleted since it was never worked on, sets up the One Piece and Anime page before disappearing.

After August 6th, there was no more editors, thus the site was left to decay for 2 months and 66 days.

The Migration from Wikipedia
This site changed forever in October 8th 2006 when a few frustrated Wikipedia editors came here, first it was Mugiwara Franky and Justyn. In October 10th, SigmasonicX arrived. By October 15th, Murasaki and Angel arrived. By October 18th, Joekido and Cody arrived. Later in November 5th 2006, Battle Franky arrived. These people are the major editors of this Wikia

They 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.

October and the months afterwards marked a harsh time, as this site suffered 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 difficult to catch up. In order to maintain a "universal" recognised 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, a user name Joekido, a stress-out character who recently had his rank on the AP.net stripped came here and sought "revenge" by turning this site into an AP.net clone only to be repealed by other editors. However the site was nearly damaged but Joekido had practically made a 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 migration 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 independence from Wikipedia. At first little seem to change, however until spring of 2007 when the effects of its independence from wikipedia began to become noticeable. 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 quited dubbing One Piece, a month later an Texas-based company, Funimation, adopted the series. This brings good news to One Piece community. Because the Funimation dub was set to air on September 2007, this site had started to go through an major changes to prepare for the upcoming dub. Since 4Kids severely damaged the series, it's unknown if the series would become popular.