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 This '''FoundedIn20xx''' [[Special:Categories|category]] is for those [[wiki]]s which we are {{tag|Unknown|unable}} to determine their {{tag|Wiki Age|foundation date}}, or have not yet checked said [[WhatIsWiki|wikis]] to establish their year of foundation.
-For [[:Category:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] wikis (or those using wiki engines based on MediaWiki), the year of foundation can usually be found at <tt>Special:AncientPages</tt>.
+;To determine the age of a wiki:
+*The founder of a wiki probably knows its age.
+*If they are running [[:Category:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] software, there are three ways:
+**Go to the 'Oldest pages' at <code>/Special:AncientPages</code> 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 <code>/Special:Contributions/MediaWiki_default</code> made its first contribution.
+**View history for a system message (as found in the 'MediaWiki' [[WikiIndex:Namespace Conventions|namespace]] – search in [[Special:PrefixIndex]]), and check when MediaWiki default first edited it.
+*For [[:Category:Wikia|Wikia]] wikis, the exact date of founding will be at <code>/Special:WikiStats</code>.
+**Wikia 'MediaWiki default' is found at <code>/Special:Contributions/Default</code>.
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