Forum:Wikia founding date

Is it possible to see when a wikia was founded somewhere in the special pages? Statitics and the expanded statistics doesn't seem to show. I'm thinking of other language wikia specifically. I'm hesitant to just use their main page history or founder contributions since these aren't guarenteed to be accurate. Any help is appreciated :) Duskey ( talk ) 15:21, July 26, 2010 (UTC)

Just look at the very first Main page edit, by the Default bot -- Light Daxter -  Talk  16:16, July 26, 2010 (UTC)


 * In Special:SpecialPages there is Special:WikiaStats which will give the creation date and time.--Sxerks 16:20, July 26, 2010 (UTC)


 * WikiaStats are only accurate for wikis that were not migrated from some other place or there wasn't a database reset at some point. I know that WoWWiki's founding date is wrong at WikiaStats. WikiaStats lists WoWWiki's founding date as July 5, 2005, but you can see older versions at the Internet Archive from Nov 20, 2004. You can even see my old user page from Nov 27, 2004. ;-) -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 10:43 AM PST 26 Jul 2010


 * Since WoWwiki was already used as an example, here's their earliest Main_Page history (NOT just their front page, had to type in Main_Page in the URL), which shows November 13, 2004. If a wiki doesn't copy over its history when moving to wikia, then the info WOULD be lost. Thanks all. Duskey ( talk ) 20:00, July 26, 2010 (UTC)


 * Good catch. I'm actually surprised that the history going that far back was saved. That's kind of cool. I double checked and the earliest user page the Internet Archive has of mine on WoWWiki was actually February 8, 2005. The oldest user page on WoWWiki itself is actually from February 1, 2005 which sounds about right. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 5:45 PM PST 26 Jul 2010