User blog comment:TehN00bishGal/Happy 10th birthday, TSW!/@comment-1519608-20150103065928

Throwing my two cents into the founding date debate here...

My own digging on the matter leads me to conclude, but not definitively so, that the wiki was founded in February 2005. As mentioned in other comments and in other locations, the accuracy of wiki statistics in the early days of Wikia is questionable due to database issues at the time. Pair this with the question regarding the wiki's founder and it's clear that there are some bugs in the system that haven't been (and likely won't be) worked out regarding this wiki's true origins.

Again, I would presume that the wiki was created sometime in early February 2005. This has been the date relayed down through the community over the years (including on our about page), and February 6, 2005 is the date of the first main page edit on the wiki (generally a good indicator of the founding date of the wiki). Another piece of evidence is our wiki's unique ID number. The Sims Wiki has ID #105. These numbers are issued to wikis sequentially, so the number determines the order in which the wikis were created. That would mean that The Sims Wiki was the 105th wiki to be created on Wikia. Wikia publicly announced the creation of its hundredth wiki on February 3, 2005 (see ), and The Sims Wiki is wiki #105. That would mean that our founding date would have to be sometime after February 3, 2005. The signs point to February 6th as being the most valid date.