Compendum Caidis:About
Compendium Caidis is the Wiki for the Kingdom of Caid in the Society for Creative Anachronism.
- Help:Editing - How to Edit pages
- Help:Team - The Wiki Team that runs this site.
History
The Caid Wiki was first envisioned by Kolfinna kottr somewhere in the 2007 (possibly even 2006) after viewing the great MidddleWiki and AnTirWiki but the initial request was denied. There was a thread on the Caid list on 4/5/2008 which resulted in renewed interest in the wiki. Kolfinna again took the proposal to the Caid Webwright (Matheus Reyner). She was given approval and the first test wiki was made. She quickly brought on Lorenz Wieland who knew the technical setup issues encountered in wikis, and the both of them setup the inital wiki on the caid-commons.org server.
Many names were considered for use, but Compendium Caidis (suggested by Cormac Mór) was selected by the editors as the final name for the site. The names considered for the site included: Caidopedia, Compendium Caidis, Caidis Historia, WiCaidPedia, Caidipedia.
On 6/6/2008 the Caid wiki was officially launched to the Caidan populace and the world.
In the beginning, the webwright had concerns over user control, so all pages were locked down to a small group of editors (about 10). People could submit information to the "talk" pages or by email and the editors would add it. It quickly became evident that this required too much micromanaging, so Kolfinna made a official request to open the wiki to all people, however all user accounts would be validated so we knew which person in the SCA it belonged to. The request was approved by the webwright, and the wiki gained many more contributions and users.
On 8/23/2008 Kolfinna stepped down as Administrator of the wiki (though stayed on as an editor) due to the fact she had to step up as Queen. Lachlan of Cromarty graciously stepped into the office, and still is the current administrator of the Caid wiki.
