Welcome to the One Piece Wiki! This page contains an overview of our history and why this site exists.
The original wiki logo.
This wiki was founded on February 14, 2006 by Kazuya2070, who only made five revisions to the main page before deleting it and disappearing for several months. The first non-main page article to be created was Straw Hat Pirates, created by Coopaii on April 11, 2006 using content copied over from Wikipedia. It would not be until the autumn of 2006 when an editing community began to form; many of these editors migrated from Wikipedia in order to add information about One Piece to a greater degree than Wikipedia, as a general real-world encyclopedia, would allow. Since Kazuya was inactive, the new community officially adopted the wiki in November, with Justyn being made the first administrator other than Kazuya.
Kazuya2070 would return in December and react negatively to the people editing the site he created, going as far as to ban them from editing. However, Wikia (now Fandom) policy holds that while the founder of a wiki possesses administrative rights, they do not have the right to assert ownership over the wiki they made, and so Wikia staff intervened to undo Kazuya's actions. In February 2007, BattleFranky202 and Mugiwara Franky were elected as administrators, joining Justyn as the wiki's inaugural admin team.
The wiki was initially called the One Piece Encyclopedia officially, and was also referred to as the "One Piece Wikia" or "One Piece Wiki". In 2016, it was decided via forum to officially rename the site to One Piece Wiki.
Over the last 18 years, this wiki has undergone many design changes and had features added and removed, oftentimes by its host Fandom (formerly Wikia), but our purpose and goals have remained essentially unchanged, that being to be the leading online free English-language resource for information on the manga and anime series One Piece as well as all other media related to and encompassed in its ever-growing franchise. While we cannot claim any official designation, we are indubitably the largest and most comprehensive English wiki on One Piece, and are the source most fans use to answer a question when not consulting the manga or anime directly.
Wiki Features[]
- Our Articles, also referred to as the Mainspace, are the backbone of this wiki and the reason why we exist. Almost all articles are intended to be factual descriptions of nearly every possible subject found in One Piece. Unlike some other wikis, we do not have comment sections for our articles, instead opting for talk pages that are to be used only for work-related discussion. However, this wiki contains other namespaces intended for general discussion and socializing.
- Discussions, launched in 2016, is our primary outlet for general discussion. Here is where you can talk to your heart's content about what characters you like, your opinions on the story, speculation on future developments, and more.
- The Forums are another outlet for socializing on a wide range of topics ranging from wiki work and important site-related discussions to more general talk. Which type depends on the sub-forum. General discussion is no longer common on the Forums due to the prevalence of other namespaces better geared for such talk, with Discussions being the top one as of now, so you will be more likely to get responses to general talk on those outlets.
- Blogs are an outlet for general discussion with an increased emphasis on long-form content. Blogs once attracted high traffic in the past, but following a site layout overhaul implemented by FANDOM in 2020, their activity has greatly nosedived.
- There has been a wiki Chat since 2011 allowing users to talk to each other in real time. This was originally a Wikia extension, but in 2016, it was decided via forum to host the official wiki Chat on Discord. Because of this, the original wiki chat's traffic decreased sharply and the extension was ultimately retired by Fandom in 2020. Our Discord server remains up and running as our official Chat space.
Wiki Milestones[]
- Wiki created on February 14, 2006
- First article (other than the main page) created on April 11, 2006
Wiki Trivia[]
- The oldest image upload to still be in use today is File:Garp's Ship.png which was uploaded on October 30, 2006 and has yet to be replaced.
