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Welcome to the Club Penguin Army Wiki history page. The wiki's history is documented here from the founding of the wiki in January 2009 to the present day.
Wiki History
Foundation [2009-2013]
This wiki was founded on January 7, 2009 by Clintos007. Many people in the army community helped edit and add stuff to the wikia. However, after a while the Wikia started becoming more and more inactive. The wiki became so inactive that on 2011, Ultimate Legend Star Kirby12 adopted this wiki. The wiki became much more improved, and on January in 2013, Mixer2301 was promoted to bureaucrat to help Ultimate Legend Star Kirby12. The CP Army Wiki had 2 full-time admins.
Notable Admins during this era
Clintos007 [Founder]
Ultimate Legend Star Kirby12 [Star Kirby12]
Mixer2301
Feey1
Commander Bsyew
Dark Age [Summer 2013]
However, Mixer2301 became inactive here as he was mainly editing the Club Penguin Wiki, and Star Kirby was concentrating on his Fanon projects at the Club Penguin Fanon Wiki. In the summer of 2013, vandals attacked and destroyed nearly every page. They uploaded a lot of spam images and videos (often with offensive content), created pages with inappropriate content etc. Star Kirby returned. Happy65, a long time admin, promoted Penguin-Pal to an admin. However, when the trio became inactive, the vandals started coming again.
Notable Admins during this era
Mixer2301 [Bureaucrat]
Star Kirby12 [Bureaucrat]
Happy65
Penguin-Pal
Defence Era [2013-2017]
In September, Mixer2301 returned and tried to clear out the vandalism, but there were a lot of them, so he promoted an active user, Jayden1092 to help him out. The Wiki wasn't as popular as it had been at launch in 2009, but Jayden worked to keep spam and false information off of it. Jayden became a full-time admin and adopted the Wikia in the Fall of 2015, becoming the third bureaucrat. Jayden was the only active admin at the Wikia and his main goal became preventing the Wikia from being defaced. Nonetheless, he did upload new content and update pages from time to time.
Notable Admins during this era
Jayden1092
Mixer2301 [2013]
Rewritten Era [2017-2018]
The ending of Club Penguin in March 2017 led to a revival in armies based off of private servers such as Club Penguin Rewritten and Club Penguin Online. Since these communities are smaller, many used the Wikia as a way to advertise their army. With that came people who wanted to preserve the Wikia such as Bloodpanther73, LimboYeti, and SavageCobra, all becoming admin before the fall of 2018. Rowan Alden also joined the wiki as a content moderator at this time, under the name of Annon.
Admins during this era
Jayden1092 [Bureaucrat]
BloodPanther73
LimboYeti
Cobra
Renaissance Era [2019-]
Jayden suddenly became inactive at the end of 2018 and in March 2019, the Wikia was adopted by CPWorld2001 [also known as Flen], making him the fourth bureaucrat. Jayden reappeared shortly after. Flen brought the Wikia in contact with the newly formed Club Penguin Armies community, a group of armies functioning together, and the Wikia operated under their administration for the rest of 2019, becoming independent again after the community shut down.
In March 2020, Annon was promoted to bureaucrat by Flen, making him the fifth bureaucrat. He had already become an active member of the armies community as Rowan Alden, and he managed the wiki for the rest of the year, running the Wiki's first ever Legends Inductions in early 2021, although this would not age well and ultimately the board was scrapped.
Admins during this era
CPWorld2001/Flen [Bureaucrat]
Annon/Rowan Alden [Bureaucrat]
CaptainScratch/Dino [Bureaucrat]
SavageCobra/Cobra [2020] [Temporary Bureaucrat]
Jayden1092
Shad [2019]
JellyandToast [2019]
Ascension Era [2020-2021]
In the later months of 2020, Cobra would return to the wiki administration and would temporarily be a bureaucrat as CPWorld2001 had become inactive. Dino joined the administration team around the same time and made several changes and updates to the wiki, adding many new features including custom infobox skins. Dino would also redesign the CPA Wiki logo in March 2021, the first time the wiki logo had been changed in some years. Dino would be promoted to Bureaucrat and take over active bureaucrat duties alone for a few months, before being rejoined by Rowan Alden in June 2021. Legoman would be promoted to administrator in July after several months of work on the wiki.
The staff would further increase in size through staff applications, prompting the introduction of a Staff of the Month award.
Plans for the Summer of 2021 were disrupted when FANDOM announced that all wikis would be moved onto the new FandomDesktop theme by mid-August. This threatened to cause major problems for the wiki as several features added were broken during tests of the new theme. However, Dino and Rowan were able to fix all of the major problems in time for the switch-over.
Admins during this era
CPWorld2001/Flen [Bureaucrat]
Annon/Rowan Alden [Bureaucrat]
CaptainScratch/Dino [Bureaucrat]
SavageCobra [Temporary Bureaucrat- 2020]
Legoman [2021]
The Wilderness Era [2022-2023]
After some internal disputes led to the resignations of both Rowan and Legoman, the wiki fell into a state of inactivity for much of 2022. Editing still took place, but with no general direction led by the staff.
This period seemed poised to end in November with the return of Rowan and Legoman to their previous positions of bureaucrat and administrator, but this was short-lived as Dino became busy leading Water Vikings, Rowan got hired as an admin for Club Penguin Armies in late December and Legoman led SWAT. Things were further complicated after Rowan got couped from CPA's administration and Legoman entered further controversy, leading to his final removal from the wiki in August. Df44, a long-serving senior content moderator, was promoted to admin as a replacement towards the end of the year.
Activity remained sporadic, with limited overseeing by Dino, Rowan and Df. However, behind the scenes work began on a spreadsheet cataloguing the current state of the wiki in terms of how much it covered, to what level of detail/quality, and how much history was missing.
Finally, Flen was forced to step down from wiki leadership in early January 2024, after concerns were raised regarding allegations of his activities in the wider armies community. Having been part of the wiki's bureaucracy for almost 5 years and having brought the wiki back in touch with the wider community, Flen's departure truly marked the end of an era.
Admins during this era
CPWorld2001/Flen [Guardian Bureaucrat]
Annon/Rowan Alden [Bureaucrat]
CaptainScratch/Dino [Bureaucrat]
Legoman [2022-2023]
Df44 [2023]
The Completionist Era [2024-]
In February of 2024, the CPA Wiki finally released the spreadsheet cataloguing the state of the wiki to the public. Whilst still a work-in-progress, the spreadsheet made evident that much work lay in store if there was ever to be any hope of the wiki being considered 'complete.' Much of history had never been recorded, and much of what had been written needed replacing due to it being of a poor standard.
Admins during this era
Annon/Rowan Alden [Bureaucrat]
CaptainScratch/Dino [Bureaucrat]
Df44