Category:Wiki Age

This is the root category for categorization of wikis by their age. It contains categories for wikis founded in various periods of . Yearly categorization was intended to start out, but feel free to add granularity or intervening summarizing time periods if it looks like it's necessary.


 * To determine the age of a wiki:
 * The founder of a wiki probably knows its age.
 * If they are running MediaWiki software, there are three ways:
 * Go to the 'Oldest pages' at  for the wiki and look at the date of the first article (note that it lists pages that haven't been edited in a long time, not the oldest pages overall).
 * Go check the date for 'MediaWiki default' at  made its first contribution.
 * View history for a system message (as found in the 'MediaWiki' namespace – search in Special:PrefixIndex), and check when MediaWiki default first edited it.
 * For Wikia wikis, the exact date of founding will be at.
 * Wikia 'MediaWiki default' is found at.

See also: Category:New.