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Welcome to Wikizilla, the ultimate database of Godzilla, and the definitive to learn everything about the Godzilla universe.

If you're not a fan of Godzilla or other kaiju, then this probably isn't the place for you. All information held within the confines of this wiki are related to Godzilla or kaiju in general, with exceptions such as Ultraman and Pacific Rim, which have their own successful and excellent Wikis.

The Basics
Ah, the timeless question: "What the crap is a wiki??!!" Well, a wiki is a site where anybody -- not just webmasters, bureaucrats, administrators, or any kind of moderateor -- can edit any page. Wikis are best used for collaborative knowledge-base type documents. For instance, one of the most successful wikis is Wikipedia, which you have very probably heard of.

What this means is that you could be an important author on Wikizilla. Know about some special fact in a Godzilla movie? Do you know about some deleted scene, or unmade movie? Wanna help us catalogue EVERY SINGLE LITTLE THING about Godzilla? Go ahead! If you ever need to find something, use the search bar. It should help you find what you're looking for.

If you decide to stick around, use the log in link at the top of this page to set up a username. You can also log in with your FaceBook account. To edit a page, click the "edit" button at the top of any page. Please be polite, and briefly describe any changes you make in the "Summary" text field on the edit page. Your "Summary" comments will appear on the recent changes page. There is a bar that says "(Choose a summary)", you can easily use that to describe changes you've made.

Wikizilla does support fan-fiction and any other Godzilla self-creations, however, these fan fiction articles must be created by an administrator. But, the only page you can edit in any way you wish is your User Page, which you will receive when you log in.

If you ever have questions about the wiki, feel free to type them up in the help page. A knowledgeable person will most likely provide you with an answer within a few minutes. This wiki is absolutely free, you do not have to pay for anything, and you may feel free to use adblockers to block advertisements you might find annoying.

We hope you'll feel welcome here amongst fellow fans of the greatest movie monster of all time.

History
Wikizilla started out in 2005 when it was co-founded by LordOfMonsterIsland and Troycool. Wikizilla started out as a very small Wiki with little editors, a Wikipedia-like skin, and when Godzilla 3D to the MAX was the next official Godzilla film. Wikizilla wasn't the most reliable Wiki, with vandalism being common. However, this has changed.

In 2007, Wikizilla had a slightly nicer, plain green skin, but vandalism was still common place. Staff was very active, and a little thing known as Fanzillas were allowed. Fanzillas was fan fiction that absolutely any user could write. However, people edited official pages and treated their fan fiction as official canon, which caused more trouble with Wikizilla's reliability among visitors. False information such as Star Godzilla, Godzilla vs. Satan, Bagan in Godzilla: Final Wars, and found King Kong appears in Edo footage was being passed off as fact and greatly reduced Godzilla's reliability. However, the years from 2007-2011 were Wikizilla's most active years, with a lot of activity and the Wikizilla community being very strong. The users at Wikizilla didn't care for the facts, they were having fun with their fanzillas and the friends they made. This would change in 2012.

In 2012, a bureaucrat decided that Fanzilla, the Gamera articles, and the Ultraman articles had to be deleted from Wikizilla because too much fanon and non-Godzilla stuff was being created. With the removal of Wikizilla's stuff came Wikizilla's loneliest time, where a very small amount of people visited Wikizilla anymore. Wikizilla went down from about 2,200 articles to just 1,000. Wikizilla's skin changed to a pitch black one with blue scattered all over, with blue links and wordmark and favicon. Not a year after, things started to change.

With GodzillaIsland7.2 and Titanollante as admins by late 2012, a lot of helpful changes came to Wikizilla. The skin you currently see, a lot of reliable links, great articles, hundreds of images, tens of videos, the customized navigation bars, tens of templates, Wikizilla chat, the Wikizilla forums, message walls, comment sections, and the removal of many false information that was still in the Wiki. Vandalism in the Wiki became very rare, and Wikizilla became active once again. Wikizilla's reliability was restored to anyone you ask who has actually visited the Wiki recently. Many people haven't visited it in many months or years and still spread outdated information about Wikizilla, and quite a number of people actually lie about Wikizilla.

In early-to-mid 2013, the main page was heavily improved, Wikizilla's FaceBook, YouTube, and Twitter pages were created, and many more good things happened.

Wiki Etiquette
If you're still unsure of how stuff works around here, you may want to check out the Magic Words guide. There you will learn how to make bold, italics, and other wiki stuff. Out of courtesy, you really shouldn't edit pages unless you are adding something meaningful (fixing grammar and spelling mistakes is okay). You also shouldn't rename and/or move pages unless you have an extremely good reason. If you want to play around and get a feel for editing pages, please do so in the Sandbox.

The Wikipedia has a great WikiCivics section. They cover a lot of information about what is accepted and what is not accepted on a wiki. There are really no rules, but there is a definite level of etiquette involved. Some of the suggestions they offer are only relevant to the Wikipedia, but many of them apply to any wiki. Anyone interested in being a valuable contributor to any wiki should read them.

See also: Wikizilla:Blocking Policy

A Warning
Above all, never use defamatory language or deface documents our community has worked hard to create. Note that Wikizilla gives everyone the ability to revert documents back to their original state. Therefore, no one can permanently harm the wiki by deleting pages. All an offender will accomplish is to slightly annoy our wiki community. After repeated defacings our administrators will permanently block the offender's IP address. If defamatory language is seen it will be changed or deleted.

Thank you for visiting Wikizilla. Let's get it on!

Sources?
Most times, information is taken from a source other than pure memory. Please try to cite all sources here in order for credit to be given where due. Plagiarism is not good.

What Wikizilla is not
Before you create an article, please remember what Wikizilla is not. To see more of Wikizilla's rules, see Wikizilla's policy.
 * Wikizilla is not a dumping ground where you can go around vandalising pages and claim Wikizilla's unreliable or full of children when we rightfully block you.
 * Wikizilla is not an Ultraman Wiki. Wikizilla is, however, a general kaiju Wiki with its main focus on the Godzilla franchise.
 * Wikizilla is not Wikipedia. Don't add random out-of-context articles like "Lady Gaga" or "The Flinstones". If you want to add pop-cultural references to Godzilla.
 * Wikizilla isn't a hate site. This site is ESPECIALLY NOT a Zilla hate site. Do NOT go around saying "G.i.n.o. sooocks! G.i.n.o.s's sou gay! That lizard rooined Godzilla's image frvr!1one111!elevenone". First, the true American Godzilla is coming out in 2014, which will make everyone forget that ZILLA was ever called "Godzilla". Second, "Gino" is a failtastic nickname for Zilla. If you want people to NOT call Zilla by "Godzilla", stop saying that Zilla was ever called Godzilla. By the way, the Zilla Name Change happened, and there is a lot of confirmed evidence about it. It doesn't matter what sites support or reject the name change, the name change is true. Third, it's been over 15 years since the 1998 film. It's very much time to get over it.
 * Wikizilla is not a site where you can just advertise whatever. Do NOT come here just to advertise something that has absolutely nothing to do with kaiju. Also, do not spam.
 * While Wikizilla can be edited by anyone, its staff patrolls every edit that happens and responds within a few minutes. Due to Wikizilla being low in activity and having only about a thousand articles, it is easy to keep track of every edit. The English Wikipedia can be vandalised very easily because it has more than 1 million articles and hundreds of thousands of visitors that can edit any article without having an account. If you doubt the legitimacy of one of Wikizilla's articles, please check back in a few minutes OR immediately contact one of Wikizilla's staff members and ask about the article. You can be 100% sure an article is legitimate if the last editor was Troycool, GodzillaIsland7.2, or Titanollante.
 * Wikizilla is not a site where anyone can post fanon. If you want to create articles about your fanon, please visit the Zilla Fanon Wiki, which is run by Goji73.
 * Wikizilla is not a place to upload random photos so you put up links to them on other sites. Any images that are not used in any pages WILL be deleted eventually. A way to get around this would be by putting the image you upload in your user page.
 * Wikizilla is not a rip-off of any site. Don't copy and paste information here, plagiarism is not allowed. Since Wikizilla was founded on 2005, any claims by any site founded any time after 05:17 AM, July 22, 2005 saying that Wikizilla is a rip-off of them is simply fabricating statements. Toho Kingdom was the only other site dedicated to Godzilla that posted information and facts at the time, and it is the place where most of Wikizilla's original community came from to help.
 * Wikizilla is not a social network. Please go to FaceBook, Twitter, or some other social network to post pictures and updates about your personal life.

What is Wikia?
Wikia.com hosts Wikizilla and provides bandwidth to this project.

History of Wikia

 * Main article: Wikia

Wikia is a wiki hosting service created in 2004 a collection of wikis running on MediaWiki software and operated by Wikia, Inc. It is free of charge for readers and editors, and gets its income from advertisements. As of mid-2006 its Alexa Internet traffic ranking was around 3000.