This is a page containing a record of all the major events on SmashWiki. Add stuff to it if you want. Note: This page was created in October 2013 and any time before that may not be as detailed.
2010
September
- The SmashWiki community moves to this site, moving away from SmashWikia, and joins NIWA (Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance).
October
- Articles, images, and other content are rapidly imported from SmashWikia.
- Shaun's Wiji Dodo becomes a user.
November
- SmashWiki's logo is updated to its current look.
December
- Dots becomes a user. He was originally named "....."
2011
April
- PSIWolf becomes a user. He was originally named "Wolf rulez!".
May
- MeMyselfAndI becomes a user. He was originally named "Conanshinichi".
- ToastUltimatum becomes a user.
June
- The Wii U was introduced in E3 2011. The next Smash Bros. game was revealed for the 3DS and Wii U.
- BlindColours becomes a user. He was originally named "Forbidden7".
July
- ReiDemon becomes a user, rejoining the wiki. He was an acclaimed user by the community.
- 1337 B33FC4K3 becomes a user.
August
- JamesHeart123 becomes a user.
- RoyboyX becomes a user, rejoining the wiki.
- Smash Arena celebrates its 100th round of voting.
- The SmashWiki YouTube channel is created.
September
- Fugudev becomes a user. His old account was named "NotAnOuendan".
October
- Mousehunter321 becomes a user. He was known to be very competent on this wiki.
- LightningBlue becomes a user.
- PenguinofDeath rejoins the wiki and applied for admin again like he was back on SmashWikia.
- SW:SIGN rules that user signatures cannot have images that are on mainspace articles and/or animated.
- SmashWiki's article on Super Smash Bros. 4 is created.
November
- DarkFox01 becomes a user. He was originally named "MeleeMarth01".
December
- Bandit becomes a user. He was originally named "Avengingbandit".
2012
January
- Unknown the Hedgehog creates a request for adminship; it fails.
- ToastUltimatum creates a request for adminship; it fails.
Febuary
- Air Conditioner becomes a user. He was originally named "Accoolx".
July
- ChuckNorris24 becomes a user.
- PokemonMasterJamal3 becomes a user.
August
- ToastUltimatum creates a second request for adminship; it fails.
- The discussion to whether to rename the article Hookshot and Clawshot begins.
- The SmashWiki Status System is created.
- SmashWiki creates plans to improve its competitive play information. Expansion to the "In competitive play" sections has since been added. The community today still tries to improve the smasher articles and tournament pages.
September
- Brawls of fury becomes a user.
- Terrible becomes a user.
- SmashWiki introduces probation, a user right that disables a user from editing on his/her userpages and forums.
October
- The VIP category is reorganized into Category:VIP players, Category:VIP tournament directors, and Category:VIP contributors.
- NotAnOuendan becomes SmashWiki's first bot, run by Fugudev.
- SmashWiki's sockpuppet policy is created.
November
- Conny becomes a user. He was originally named "Airconny", changed because it was too similar to AirCon, another name for Air Conditioner.
December
- The {{competitive-stub}} tag is created.
2013
January
- Ac2k becomes a user.
March
- After a lengthy discussion, Nintendo console articles that do not host Smash games are deleted.
- EXemplary Logic, SmashWiki's second bot, is created by Toomai.
April
- For April Fool's Day, the Main Page is translated into French.
- An idea for creating moveset subpages (containing detailed info on technical data and competitive uses of attacks) is proposed.
- Air Conditioner announces departure from the wiki.
June
- The {{technical data}} and {{competitive expertise}} tags are created.
- The E3 Super Smash Bros. 4 trailer debuts.
- Scr7 becomes a user.
- Boo Buddy becomes a user.
- SmashWiki's Read This First, Man policy is put into effect.
July
- Olimar is confirmed for Smash 4 to return as a veteran and his article is created on SmashWiki.
August
- Luigi is confirmed for Smash 4 to return as a veteran and his article is created on SmashWiki.
- Smash Arena celebrates its 200th round of voting.
- The Wikia SmashWiki begins plans to rid it of its old community influences.
- Major Smash Bros. websites such as Smashboards, All is Brawl, and the Project M website were hit and disabled form service by a unknown DDoS attack. It took almost a month to recover from the attack.
- SmashWiki is one of the few Smash Bros sites not to be hit by the DDoS attack.
September
- Terrible announces departure from the wiki.
- The original Wikia SmashWiki is renamed "Smashpedia", and the domain is changed from super-smash-bros.wikia.com to supersmashbros.wikia.com.
- Peach is confirmed for Smash 4 to return as a veteran and her article is created on SmashWiki.
- Toon Link is confirmed for Smash 4 to return as a veteran and his article is created on SmashWiki.
- SmashWiki's Username policy is put into effect.
October
- Sonic is confirmed for Smash 4 to return as a veteran and his article is created on SmashWiki.
- After a long discussion lasting over two months on whether moveset subpages should be merged or not, the descriptions of the attack are eventually merged onto one page, with each individual hit's data having its own page.
- The discussion to whether to rename the article Hookshot and Clawshot ends after a long time, with the result being the page name staying as is.
- A discussion starts over whether the wiki should provide more in-depth coverage of Project M.
- SmashWiki's professionals categories are split into separate games.
- Fireblaze77 creates a request for adminship; it fails.
November
- Marth is confirmed for Smash 4 to return as a veteran and his article is created on SmashWiki.