The Thomas the Tank Engine Wiki(a) also known as Thomaspedia or tttewiki is Wiki dedicated to the world's favourite tank engine, Thomas! Thomas is a big hit among children and adults alike. The Railway Series is over 60 years old and the TV series is almost 25 years old, meaning that many parents are now showing their children the same episodes they grew up with.
This wiki intends to have detailed information about every character, episode and merchandise. It was started in 2007 and has since grown steadily.
Differences from Wikipedia
Many of the articles have started out from Wikipedia articles. However wikipedia's "notability" policy has made it impossible to create a full guide to the Thomas and Friends universe, especially with minor characters and merchandise. Our policy is to have any article related to Thomas. All characters are allowed a page of their own, instead of being "merged" into a stub within list of other characters. Many editors of this wiki are former Wikipedians. This unfortunate policy affects other popular TV series such as Pokemon, which has seen the 483 articles on Wikipedia reduced to 20 stubs a page.
Milestones
Article count goal is at least 1000. This should be achievable due to the 300+ episodes, around 200 characters, 40 books, plus the large amount of trivia and merchandise for Thomas fans.
- September/ October 2008 - Milestone of 1000 articles reached! However, there may be false pages of fan fiction that try to appear legitimate that could be counted like the normal pages - this situation should not be a problem though when new official material like new characters and episodes from future TV series seasons come in time to secure the milestone properly.
- May 26 2008 - A wiki for Thomas fan fiction has been opened on the fan fiction wikia.
- April 14 2008 - 800 articles reached.
- December 19 2007 - A wiki for TUGS, the sister series to Thomas the the Tank Engine, has been opened.
- December 14 2007 - 500 articles reached. However many are stubs. Article expansion is now the main aim of the wiki.
- November 24 2007 - 250 articles reached.
- November 12 2007 - 150 articles reached. A lot is due to transwiki from Wikipedia.
- November 5 2007 - The Wiki reaches 100 articles.
Copyrights
Thomas and Friends are copyright to HiT Entertainment/ Britt Allcroft and related companies. This wiki is not created, authorized or endorsed by them.
Disclaimers
This wiki makes no guarantee of accuracy. This wiki contains spoilers, may contain vandalism and content could change or be deleted at anytime. Do not rely on information found here without verifying it with reliable third party sources.