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Club Penguin Archives is a site dedicated to preserving Club Penguin's history by archiving the files that made up the game since December 12, 2010. This site is a part of the Club Penguin Wiki Network.

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-'''Club Penguin Archives''' was created on December 12, 2010 after the removal of the swf.cpcheats.info mirror. This site is an archive of ''Club Penguin''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s files. From our homepage:
+|}}[[Project:About|'''Club Penguin Archives''']] is a site dedicated to preserving ''Club Penguin''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s history by archiving the files that made up the game since December 12, 2010. This site is a part of the ''[[clubpenguinwiki:|Club Penguin Wiki Network]]''.{{#ifeq:{{PAGENAME}}|Main Page|
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+If you use files stored here for your Club Penguin cutouts, private servers, fan sites/blogs, or anything else, we'd really appreciate it if you could put a link to us on your site or post.|}}
-This is our goal.
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+==History==
+swf.cpcheats.info, part of a Club Penguin cheats forum and blog, was the primary source of old [[clubpenguinwiki:.swf|SWFs]] until it was taken down in December 2010. [[User:Refractor|Refractor]] compressed a [[Project:Mirror|copy of the site]] before the shut down, and [[User:Tux|Tux]] uploaded the mirror to the server and created the '''Club Penguin Archives Wiki''' as part of the (then just a month old) ''Club Penguin Wiki Network''.
-==History==
+In these early times, [[User:ClubPenguinMaster|ClubPenguinMaster]] was the main editor and administrator on Archives for years until mid-2012, when a few new users from the across network began to edit. More new users continue to join Archives, and the file count began to significantly rise. To adjust for the growing community in the Fall of 2012, [[User:CK|Cp kid]], [[User:Nando144|Nando144]] and [[User:Mario Rk|Mario Rk]] were promoted to administrators. Along with the "revived" administration came was the "foreign language project", which urged users to upload SWFs of ''all'' languages rather than just English.
-swf.cpcheats.info, part of a Club Penguin cheats forum and blog, was the primary source of old [[clubpenguinwiki:.swf|SWFs]] until it was taken down in December 2010. [[User:Refractor|Refractor]] compressed a [[Project:Mirror|copy of the site]] before the shut down, and [[User:Tux|Tux]] uploaded the mirror to the server and created the '''Club Penguin Archives Wiki''' as part of the (then just a month old) ''Club Penguin Wiki Network''.
+By the end of 2012, Archives had a small but active community and was appropriately renamed to '''Club Penguin Archives''' with a new main page and logo in time for the wiki's second anniversary. Archives would also end up seeing the promotion of their first bureaucrat (ClubPenguinMaster) at Cp kid's request to Network staff to help Archives become a bit more dependent. In May 2015, we continued to expand Archives' library by also including [[JSONs]] and [[clubpenguinwiki:Club Penguin (app)|Club Penguin app's files]].
-[[User:ClubPenguinMaster|ClubPenguinMaster]] was one of two administrators and was the main editor on Archives for years, until mid-2012, when a few new users from the network started to edit. Around June and July 2012, new users started to join Archives, and the file count on the wiki began to increase. In September 2012, [[User:CK|Cp kid]] and [[User:Nando144|Nando144]] became administrators, and [[User:Mario Rk|Mario Rk]] won the rights after a vote in November. Along with the "revived" administration, many new things came to light on Archives. One of the notable things that came to light was the "foreign language project", which urged users to upload SWFs of ''all'' languages rather than just English. By November and December, Archives had a small but active community. Also, to give the wiki a "fresh new look", it was renamed to '''Club Penguin Archives''' (dropped the "wiki"), received a fresh new main page, and even a new logo designed by Cp kid (with elements made by [[Special:Contributions/Wboys14|Wboys14]]) for the wiki's second anniversary. One other significant change in Archives was the promotion of Archives' first bureaucrat (ClubPenguinMaster) at Cp kid's request to CPWN staff so the staff wouldn't have to promote and demote everyone on Archives anymore. Unfortunately, ClubPenguinMaster had fallen inactive, and was demoted a few months later via community vote. Cp kid then also resigned in April 2014 and [[User:Juca|Juca]] replaced him in May. A year after that, in May 2015 we expanded from archiving just SWFs to archive also [[JSONs]] and [[clubpenguinwiki:Club Penguin (app)|Club Penguin App's Files]]. By 2017, Juca and Nando had unfortunately faded away over the years, leaving Mario Rk alone. Thus, on April 14, 2017, Juca and Nando were both demoted for inactivity and Mario Rk was promoted to bureaucrat. Two days prior on April 12, the Club Penguin media database had been taken down, although the mission of Club Penguin Archives continues.
+However, nothing is meant to last forever, on March 29, 2017, ''Club Penguin'' was closed down in favor of the new [[clubpenguinwiki:Club Penguin Island (game)|''Club Penguin Island'']], and a few weeks later on April 12, 2017, the Club Penguin media database was taken down. Despite these conclusions, the mission of Club Penguin Archives continues to this day.
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 File:LogoExample.png|The original Archives logo.
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