Editing Coven (section)

===Online covens===
With the rise of the Internet as a platform for collaborative discussion and media dissemination, it became popular for adherents and practitioners of Wicca to establish "online covens" which remotely teach tradition-specific crafts to students in a similar method of education as non-religious [[virtual school|virtual]] [[distance education|online schools]]. One of the first online covens to take this route is the [[Coven of the Far Flung Net]] (CFFN), which was established in 1997 as the online arm of the [[Church of Universal Eclectic Wicca]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2006-07-18 |title=Coven of the Far Flung Net |url=http://www.cuew.org/cffn/index.html |access-date=2022-12-14 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060718020827/http://www.cuew.org/cffn/index.html |archive-date=2006-07-18 }}</ref>

However, because of potentially-unwieldy membership sizes,{{clarifyme|date=October 2018}} many online covens limit their memberships to anywhere between 10 and 100 students. The CFFN, in particular, tried{{when|date=October 2018}} to devolve its structure into a system of sub-coven clans (which governed their own application processes), a system which ended in 2003 due to fears by the CFFN leadership that the clans were becoming communities in their own right.{{citation needed|date=August 2017}}