Drawn Fanon Feet Wiki:History

Etymology
Originally the community was named "Animated Feet Scenes" and located at w:c:AnimatedFeetScenes

The unnecessary 'scenes' in the URL dropped in early 2012 to shorten it. The 'Animated Feet' URL (w:c:AnimatedFeet) also had a more inclusive 'Animated Foot Scenes' title, since we also include scenes which may only have a single foot as opposed to a minimum of two.

Anime
In late 2012, 'Animated' in the URL was shortened to 'Anime', which is the Japanese term for animation, to have an even shorter URL and to reflect the contributions of Japanese media to foot-related images.

'Animated' here has never excluded non-animated media such as comics (or manga, as it is called in Japan) and similarly, the change to 'Anime' does not exclude non-anime (non-Japanese) forms of animation which are generally referred to as cartoons. It is simply the shortest common term that is known to be applicable and understood to be associated with non-live media.

This policy differs from other communities like AnimeBaths which do exclude comics and cartoons which haven't been associated in some way with Japanese media (anime/manga).

Like the blogspot 'Anime Feet' (not officially affiliated with this wiki, but which links to here, so we link back in return) we include animation and illustration all over the world regardless of nation. Though our anime/manga categories specifically gather those created in Japan.

Unlike AnimeBaths we do not, however, generally include depictions of live adaptations of anime.

Live images
Due to the focus on animation in the web site, live images of real people are only allowed when they are barefoot images of a character who, in animated (or illustrated) form, also has barefoot images.

See for example: Tinkerbell

Note that merely having been an animated character at some point isn't enough: the purpose of allowing live barefoot images of characters is so that we can compare them to a barefoot image in illustrated form.

Ankles
Per Ankle, as it includes the Talus bone, the ankle joint is considered part of the foot, so images that show the baring of ankles or any region below/distal/inferior to that point are considered to be depicting feet.

While very detailed/tight sock images are sometimes accepted when they depict the silhouette of the foot accurately, images which only depict the sock above the ankle joint are not acceptable.

Males
While the original intent, like AnimeBaths, was a focus on female characters' feet, like AB, we expanded to also cover male characters and genderless characters as well, out of recognition that a wider scope will be more encyclopedic and appeal to a wider audience, as well as there being overlap in scenes where males and females are barefoot simultaneously.

Our Mission
We strive to capture, collect and store the most interesting foot scenes available to the watchers of anime and cartoons, and to the readers of manga and comic books. We make our collection of foot scenes available to our readers through one of the several categories we have available, such as animations (Cartoons and Anime) and illustrations (Comics and Manga).

2011
This wiki was founded in 2011 on what was then known as Wikia, a project founded in 2004 as "Wikicities" until changing it's name in 2006. The original founder's username was StefanZX and there were only about a dozen pages.

2012
Tyc began organizing the existing content and supplementing it with new content, eventually leading to an accepted application to adopt the project as it's new bureaucrat in 2012.
 * the original name "Anime Foot Scenes Wiki" was changed to "Anime Feet" wiki, inspired by the concise "Anime Baths" wiki's efficient naming structure
 * coincidentally this name was already in use for a blog project that began in 2007 five years prior: efforts were made where there was overlap to link to this blog at the bottom of character pages who had blog posts with images associated with them. Sometimes the blog was also used to mine images for characters too, and when this was done, linking back was expected.
 * Over subsequent years, active editors were promoted to rollback or sysop rights.

2016
Wikia rebranded as Fandom and URLs of communities included this one shifted.

2017
Sister wiki AnimeBaths was shut down, a warning sign shot across the bow of controversial "trope" fandoms such as this one. The writing was on the wall: time was limitd.

2018
Sannse warned that the community would be shut down in several months and to do our best to back up content. Sannse graciously gave several extensions on the initial "death clock" and was very understanding about this. She has also donated to Miraheze's upkeep, unlike most of us: don't hate the messenger, if she hadn't pulled the plug they would've fired her and gotten someone who would.
 * The problem is whoever decided to make the larger effort against communities like ours exploring subject matter which to some is viewed as prurient material. They did this to avoid either current or potential future problems with getting income from advertisers, essentially, even though these communities probably helped make them a lot of money in the meantime.

During the death throws where struggles were had to archive the site and T went AWOL for weeks at a time, there was some kind of power struggle involving furries which seems like largely a waste of time, although being pickier about content inclusion criteria could've shrunk the size of files to import which could've helped in the 2020 desire to revive the old image database.

2019
16 February 2019 the user DeltaRuneFan2001 set up the fork AnimatedFeet.Miraheze.org and began trying to copy data over through a manual process.
 * this was later helped by our appeals via Phabricator to import the entire text history of all articles: unfortunately Miraheze did not have the data to migrate the image files too

On February 28, Delta promoted Tyc (hi!) to bureaucrat in recognition of being the adoptive bureaucrat in charge of the old Fandom project
 * this was inaccurately summarized as "main founder" which was untrue

As awareness of this place increased, a warning was issued to editors of the old wiki about how many days until the wiki's closure, with a URL supplied to the new MiraHeze location.

On April 17 2019, FANDOM officially shut down the older incarnation of this wiki.

2020
After prolonged discussion between Delta and Tyc about shortening the "Animated" in the URL and site name, the decision was made, when shortening it from 10 to 5 characters, to adopt the adjective "Drawn" instead of the old "Anime" for three reasons:
 * 1) to avoid confusion with the Blog project, who had first dibs on it (now does not need to specify "wiki" or "blog" to tell them apart)
 * 2) "drawn" is monosyllabic and easier to say than "anime" which is trisyllabic
 * 3) "drawn" is a shorter term than "illustrated" but like it is more inclusive of a wider variety of media. "Anime" refers to animation yet we had always included non-animated things like manga. It also informally refers to Japanese animation when used outside of Japan (Japanese use it to refer to ALL animation) whereas we have included western cartoons since 2012's adoption and expansion.

2021

 * Republicans hopefully sweep Georgia to retain majority control in the Senate so Kamala doesn't get to break ties, in case all the Shenanigans in places like Philedelphia don't get the inflated fake vote count for Biden thrown out so that Republican representation is properly afforded to the electoral colleges. Or possibly this editor should stop watching so much Fox News and get back to his anime.