<August 2021 Update>[]
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, good night, and mahalo, to all those who are readers of, or contributors to the Over the Garden Wall wikipedia site.
Many readers may have noticed that there are many of our articles that are currently being overhauled and updated. Since this fandom site's creation, many contributors had come together to provide as much information as possible for the series (at the time). Several years have passed since then, and not only did Cartoon Network release more information regarding this beloved series, but even Patrick McHale has graced the world with more insight to the series and his creation process. Now, no matter how deep you are as a fan in the series, as long as you enjoy the series, consider helping expand this wikia site whenever you have time to spare. Although Over the Garden Wall consists of 12 Episodes, there is plenty of content to be discussed and explored. We cannot fall behind to other beloved shows out there, so please, if you would like to contribute see below for ways on how you can help.
******Quick Clarification!*****
These positions are entirely dependent on the timing and flexibility of the user, we are not here to pressure or frighten off anyone who is interested in lending a helping hand. We would like all users that do contribute to follow some basic rules when creating, editing, removing, or organizing content which is explained in the Manual of Style. Now, you are not expected to be a sure-wiz stickler of perfection, we will moderate any changes to the articles or the comments for safety and clarity, so as long as you are able to enjoy yourself please consider one of the roles below:
Positions:[]
*Moderators (you don't need any experience for this, I can teach you some tips if you'd like though) ---
Moderators should be prepared to go through every article, at least once either skimming through the content and making sure its cohesive and relevant with the fandom or article topic, especially watching out for bias or stereotyping. Not every article will need to be moderated, so really moderation will go through articles with recent activity since most articles are being overhauled anyway for old content. That includes checking on infoboxes and any vandalism. Essentially, you're our quality control.
*Cleaners ---
Cleaners, you are the stickler. Be prepared to check over articles and infoboxes for simple grammar mistakes or just organization. Although, major organization in articles will already be reviewed by one of the admins, unless we do not reach it. If you are feeling savvy, we may ask you to help moderators specifically with the information receiving process. Check on sources, update or remove links that are not active or credible.
*Content Creators ---
There are many articles just waiting to be expanded in just about every area you can think of! Image, character, voice actor, comic, location, object, art book, pre-production, merchandise, transcripts, etc, there's so much to do!
*Reference Providers ---
I have a general compendium/list of links or sources I know or regard to be credible for this fandom, but I am just one person. If you would like to help create the reference lists for the existing articles, or even provide any sites or books to an article or page that you think would be a great edition to the site then please do tell or join!
General Site Update:[]
I am working on filling in empty areas in articles for main characters regarding concept art, relationships, references, and fixing gallery boxes. As well as updating all articles to the Round Infobox eventually! I was responsible for confusing some people with another infobox that I updated, but when I discovered the round format source code I could not help but think, "wow its 2021 and we need that", so I made a new infobox. I also created small navboxes for locations and objects, as well as templates for unfinished articles or pages. Please use them if you have begun something and are unsure how long it will take to complete it, that way someone will lend their hand, or not remove your edits. These templates can be found on the Manual.
Active Users:[]
*Currently we have two active site managers: JacobBoyd an Administrator/SysOp, and myself a Bureaucrat and Admin/SysOp. ChevalierMacabre is an Administrator/Bureaucrat who was a contributor on this wiki and the most recent, but according to their message wall (that I have read) they will be resigning, and no longer be active on the wiki (08/01/2021). They will still see messages of course, unless they formally ask to be removed from the site (technically there's more to it), but to avoid any confusion please come to Jacob or I. Erendust is our Chat/Thread Moderator, although I am not sure how often they are online. We may not respond immediately but we will do our best to answer you!
Also, to anyone who has any suggestions, please do tell! Comments, or directly through Jacob or myself, comments and suggestions are always welcome. And Jacob, I'm sorry for always increasing the workload, but hopefully we can eventually have a complete site that really has everything and maybe one day even Patrick McHale and the entire production crew will come and see this site (if they haven't already) XD. Also, let's give a round of applause for Shnuborls, our founder. Also, to Be More89 another former admin of ours that is still active, just not on the site.
Let's do our best this Fall 2021 everyone and stay safe!