User blog comment:BertH/News From the Community - November 2014/@comment-5578690-20141119060949/@comment-957747-20141119062156

Both wikias were actually created on November 11th, 2004, but yes, the first edits were not until January the following year.

The easiest way to see the first edit is by checking ?diff=1 (and increase until you find one that was not to a [now] deleted page)...


 * Pokemon
 * http://pokemon.wikia.com/?diff=2


 * Doom
 * http://doom.wikia.com/?diff=1

Pokemon's first edit was to the Main Page, but the page was then deleted and re-created.

Early in 2006, I believe, wikias began to be imported over from WikiCities into Wikia's new database structure. And, as Bert mentioned above, some data was lost in this process as the new home ended up showing a creation date of that import -- when the wikia was actually created here on Wikia.