Board Thread:Wiki discussion/@comment-29850133-20181021021221/@comment-29850133-20181022013026

The JoTS wrote: It's my understanding that wikis were made manually by Wikicities –which later became Wikia, and now, FANDOM– staff. First a user would have to request for a wiki to be made, Wikicities would approve or deny, and if approved, the wiki would be setup by staff.

I don't exactly know how the wikis were actually setup on the server-side back then, but I imagine it was a much more involved staff-intensive process (unlike now where anyone can make a wiki anytime and a mere server-side script is used to build a wiki). This manual setup process could explain the discrepancy– staff started manually "building" on November 5, 2007, and then when they finished days later, they awarded Leira77 as founder. This is speculation though.

That said, where did you get this "November 5, 2007" figure? I'm not saying that's wrong, but I don't know where you got it either. I clicked history under view source on the homepage. I clicked earliest and the earliest edit was on November 5, 2007

And wikia was changed from Wikicities to wikia in 2006, not later. I checked it on Wikipedia.