Do you remember this great book called The Atari Compendium? Some years ago, some people tried to publish an eletronic updated version, but Scott Sander, the original author, refused that they publish freely his work.
As says
Wikipedia, the term
compendium is a common word that is used for "
a short but comprehensive compilation of a body of knowledge". Isn't this word exactly what we are trying to do here? Furthermore, we are free to use it because it's a common name!
So here you know the story for that name! I hope this is the start of a long and productive story for the
WikiPendium project!