On this day, eight years ago, this wiki has been created by Rigas Paps, shortly before Ultimate Omelette came out. Since then, the wiki has been the main database of the Chicken Invaders series. It has went through a lot over the years.
Over the first few months, Rigas Paps, along with Strawmouseworm and Chris Cat, made the first few dozen pages on the wiki, detailing the games, bosses and characters. During this period, the wiki was intended to be viewed in the Monobook style.
After few months, Strawmouseworm and Rigas Paps stopped visiting the wiki (with Chris Cat coming back sporadically until 2015), and edits on the wiki were mostly done by anonymous users or new accounts. During this period, weapon, wave and enemies and bosses pages were worked on. Ultimate Omelette's Editions were released.
In 2014, Cluck of the Dark Side came out, and by the end of the year I became admin. The intended viewing style was changed from Monobook to Oasis and new features were added, including Wiki Chat, Forums and Achievements. A lot of new users have joined that year. Some of them, including Red Bloony - BTD5, SpaceCrab1211, CI5 BETA Tester and CI5 COTDS were given moderator/admin rights.
Work was started on Cluck of the Dark Side pages, among other things.
In 2015, we started doing theme changes for holidays, the first one being Halloween, as Cluck of the Dark Side just received a Halloween edition. It continued next year with other holidays.
During 2016, the Wiki Chat was improved and the theme changes continued, but other than that, not much really happened. Regular user activity has since waned off. Cluck of the Dark Side Christmas came out in December.
2017 wasn't very eventful either, with InterAction studios not releasing anything for the first time since 2001. The most important thing to happen that year is the removal of the old Wiki Chat and creation of the Chicken Invaders Wiki Discord. 2017 also saw Rigas Paps return. All users promoted in 2014/2015 have since been demoted, since they left the wiki. On the Discord server side, Sophodot and Orandza were promoted to Chat Moderators.
2018 so far has been more eventful, with Chicken Invaders Universe releasing soon. We were the first to report on it, and most of the views the wiki is getting are coming to its page for any updates regarding the game's developement. In July we received the first teaser for the game, and in August the Chicken Invaders Universe forums were opened. Earlier this year, we attempted a failed contest where you could have won the game for free, but then we realized that it will be free-to-play anyway, so it was dropped. The wiki would have been presumably as inactive as last year, if not for the events that happened this summer. The wiki received sweeping updates, with most of the missing info being added, including waves, enemy and boss data, weapon power levels and others. The logo was also changed to the one we have today.
In the coming months, Chicken Invaders Universe will be focused on, and the wiki will need a lot of work. It'll take a while to add it all, though, assuming I would remain the only person who still takes care of this place.
If you'd like to have a more in-depth view of the events that happened on the wiki since 2014, you can visit the Rewind posts here. You can also check out an album of the wiki logos over the years here.