Site News

2024

• October 19th - Removed manual entry of last modified dates for articles, now is automated. Forums launch.
• October 17th - Site implements transcription pages.
• October 6th - Added program to automate adding video pages.
• September 29th - Site implements movie categories.
• September 28th - Site implements video pages and color themes.
• September 24th - Site fully moves to the new version.
• September 18th - First implementation of the new site's map.
• September 12th - Plans to move to Hugo solidified, test site goes live at https://cheeser-bj9nd.ondigitalocean.app/
• September 9th - The site begins plans to potentially move to a static Hugo site.
• August 17th - All CSS is moved out of Common.css to allow per-theme modifications.
• August 1st - Featured Articles return to the main page.
• July 15th - New homepage layout is implemented.
• July 14th - Testing for a new homepage begins.
• June 22nd - Removed the very old 'Terms & Additional Topics' page, moving terms to :Category:Animatronic Repair & Preservation, and deleting the disambiguation pages.
• May 31st - The site is mentioned by The Charlotte Ledger in a news article.https://charlotteledger.substack.com/p/in-a-chuck-e-cheese-on-pineville
• May 26th - New admin Stripes fixes many CSS problems with the wiki for a better look. CirrusSearch, AdvancedSearch, and RelatedArticles extensions enabled by Miraheze Stewards.
• May 24th - The wiki hits 1500 articles.
• May 22nd - ''Advanced Animations', 'AVG Technologies', 'VP Animations', 'Hofmann Figuren', and 'Unknown Manufacturers' sections begin being worked on.
• May 2nd- Creative Presentations section added to homepage
• April 29th - Browser extension Indie Wiki Buddy adds CEP as the overwriting site for the CEC Fandom Wiki.
• January 24th - 'Creative Presentations' sections begin being worked on.

2023

• December 18th - Added auto-updating ranking of top 5 users in past 30 days to the main page.
• November 27th - 'Sally Corp' section added to the front page tabs.
• November 2nd - The wiki's front page changes to have a 'Home' tab instead of information being under the logo.
• October 23rd - Miraheze updates the wiki to Mediawiki 1.40, moving all sidebars to hidden menus and decluttering the pages.
• July 8th - The wiki begins its first community project for contributing to specific wiki sections: :Category:Store Fixtures#Chuck%20E.%20Cheese's-0 (Store Fixtures) of the [Artifact Shelves](https://cheeseepedia.org/wiki/artifact-shelves/) & 1990s Major Remodel
• July 4th - The wiki hits 1000 articles.
• June 19th - First non CEC/SPP/PTT/CEI article created going over [DACS](https://cheeseepedia.org/wiki/dacs/), though isn't integrated into site navigation yet.
• April 18th - Media Viewer and Popup extensions enabled for easier browsing of the site.
• April 17th - Community votes on wiki name change to 'Cheese-E-Pedia' to avoid trademark violations.
• March 31st - Removed Mobile Frontend to align layout to the PC experience for mobile users.
• February 5th - The site receives a massive design overhaul, cleaning up the front page, adding tabs, and setting site colors to a deep blue. Sections for FECs and retrofitted animatronic shows are also added for users to contribute to.
• February 3rd - The wiki reaches 700 articles.

2022

• December 31st - Wiki host Miraheze merges November pages back into Chuck-E-Pedia, successfully bringing back the wiki in full.
• December 19th - Wiki host Miraheze confirms the lost pages from November are recovered and will be implemented soon.
• December 16th - An incorporation of Joe Lewis' token and ticket identification standard is added to the wiki.
• December 5th - Infoboxes, thumbnail embeds, and other styling is set in the site's design standards.
• November 30th - The flower-styled icon is applied to the site design.
• November 29th - A backup from August 2022 is restored and the Wiki goes back online.
• November 22nd - The Wiki's [https://static.miraheze.org/decodedocdigitizewiki/5/5a/Pedia_Favicon.png flower-styled icon] is designed.
• November 20th - The Wiki's Discord Server reaches 1000 members.
• November 17th - Wiki host Miraheze loses all files to the wiki, and the site goes offline.
• October 7th - The Wiki's complete [https://static.miraheze.org/decodedocdigitizewiki/b/bf/Chuckepedialogo.png flower-styled logo] is designed and added to the site.
• September 5th - A [https://static.miraheze.org/decodedocdigitizewiki/archive/b/bf/20221008003306%21Chuckepedialogo.png preliminary logo] is added to the site's design.
• August 21st - The Wiki's first major lost media search, that being of the 1979 Pizza Time Theatre Ad, commences.
• July 14th - Early opening of Wiki to the public. Site name changes finally to 'Chuck-E-Pedia'
• July 10th - Announcement of public unveiling on July 17th.
• February 18th - Wiki name changes to 'Chuck E. Encyclopedia'

2021

• November 28th - Wiki goes live as 'Decode-Document-Digitize Wiki'. Visibility set to private.