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Hello all, I am very disappointed to announce that after 10 years of editing this wiki, I will now be resigning as an editor, admin, and bureaucrat. All my user pages will remain up, but I do not plan on ever being involved again with this site or the AIO fanbase. This has been one of the most fun experiences I've had getting to work on this project, and I'm sad to leave it. I wish you all well and thank you for the camaraderie and support you have shown me over the years. If you need to reach me, use returntogilead.com/contact.

Hey all! Some of you might have seen Moviemanev making edits and uploading photos recently. This is Evan David, content producer (I believe) for AIO! This is the first time in my memory when a member of the AIO team has been directly involved with the wiki.

I’ve been considering how to regard Evan’s edits here on the wiki. Because he’s on the team, and since he’s been creating canon (or not, depending on how the “old guard” decides) with his social media posts, he could have the potential to create canon directly with an AIOWiki edit. This would give him a privilege that no other user has, although he would still be bound by the general guidelines for users and non-sysops.

I see two alternatives for Evan’s edits:

1. Prohibit canon creation through AIOWiki. Details and new images must have already been released on social media, the official site, or other public means.
2. Regard the content of any constructive edit by Evan as canon. Canon would be expanded to include direct additions made by Evan or the final edit by Evan of those additions, along with the final version of any file uploaded by him. This would not canonize entire pages in which he makes one edit but rather just the text added by his edit. Evan can only remove from the canon what he has added; striking edits made by other users is not sufficient to remove their subjects from canon.

Thoughts?

I think the first option is the better and safer route. I welcome expanded canon aio content. However I do not think we should be counting contributions on the wiki as creating canon. Official AIO should come from an official source. Opening up canon/world creation to essentially any wiki editor could or will cause problems. We do not want to host user created content as official. User created content is great, but not the focus of this wiki. We are here (as far as I understand it) to document everything created by the AIO team. Which gets back to the original question. I see the main problem being precedence. Even in this very unusual situation I do not think we can open up the door to calling user created materials official.

Hey guys, anything that I update or information that I add will be from officially released AIO content. I will not be adding any canon information that hasn't already come from an officially released source.

It may please you to know that our internal AIO team used AIOwiki ALL the time. It's a great resource for our writers. So I'm just trying to make sure the canon recorded on here is as up to date and accurate as possible :)

Awesome to hear. And thanks for your contributions.

Can anyone edit the Barclay family tree to include Donna's new husband? :)

Done

Does anyone want to tackle the Trading Cards?

I already started

https://www.aiowiki.com/wiki/2024_Trading_Cards

Why are we uploading the front and back of cards? This is not a good idea. We know they are supposed to be available again, this definitely hurt sales if people can just download them from the wiki. How is this different than uploading whole episodes to wiki?

https://www.aiowiki.com/wiki/2024_Trading_Cards This page is good enough

These are on the official page

Ooh I see my bad sorry

there is some basic anti-counterfeiting features you can tell the paper construction the bend in the card (layers) and the rounded corners, previous versions released for print didn't have the rarity icon, there's subtle design change and the older cards have a different copyright date. Still looking them over for Misspellings/typos or canonical errors, the only things i found so far is the official page had Jillian Marshall spelled wrong and the rarity for card 20 Retro Tom was incorrect.

Just as Wikipedia does yearly donations, have ya'll ever thought about allowing a donation area to help with server costs/domain renewal/etc via something like a paypal or anything? Even if it's a small donation I'd love to help. Over the years I've visited the site enough.

I think this is a good idea. AIO Wiki is such a great resource that I would be happy to give some money to help its upkeep!

Bump :) (hoping for an admin/mod response lol)

I think Reddo needs something to allocate time to maintenance. I'd be happy to get server access to work on issues and core system updates. I'd be interested in knowing what the server access/requirements are and explore (if needed) ways to transfer/backup the wiki long-term or rebuild on another platform like fandom.com

Ever since the wiki went down, the Window for "Today's Episode" on the front page has been missing. I miss this element of the home page. I like to use it to jump to information on today's episode after I listen to it. I hope there are plans to restore this element of the home page.

I understand if it is just taking time to fix things.

It's back now :D

Awesome!

Right now the Pete Reneday entry simply says that he is also a prolific TV actor. I am wondering if this should be expanded. I am thinking about changing this to "a prolific voice actor." He seems to do quite a lot of things for movies, TV shows, and video games. I am also wondering about adding something about how he is well known for playing Splinter in the animated 1980s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoonand for doing voices at theme park rides, especially the Country Bear Jamboree at Disney World. (See Wikipedia for more evidence of this information.)

I also recall hearing Reneday in the Last Chance Detectives story "Last Flight of the Dragon Lady" and on Focus on the Family's "The Singing Bible" CD thesingingbible.com

Are all of these details worthy of being added to the Pete Reneday article?

I just realized that I am probably posting this in the wrong place on the Wiki. I had posted the question on the discussion tab for the Pete Reneday entry, but now one week later I didn't see anyone interact with it, so I posted it here. I'm still relatively new to the wiki, and I welcome anyone teaching me the more appropriate way to do things around here.

Feel free to add {{Active discussion}} to a talk page you edit, that'll help it get seen. It's not perfect but it does a little.

I'm finally back here to do a little cleanup of the disrepair that the wiki has fallen into. Here are a few notes for the active admins (if there are any) in the future:

1. Don't allow mainstream episodes to use the {{{album}}} parameter. Always use {{{album_num}}} and {{{album_name}}}. This breaks the New Episodes widget.
2. Chart numbers should never have question marks. Question marks are for the episode number only. Chart numbers should always reflect the current index of the episode as it appears on Episodes sorted chronologically.
3. If you see something broken on the main page or an episode page, comment it out. This was done by Eugene for {{New Episodes}} but it was still affecting the main content. I'm going to fix that section myself, but clearing out errors on those pages is a high priority.

This goes for anyone reading this, not just the admins. If you see something broken, fix it. We can always rollback if the edit goes wrong. And if you can't edit it yourself, email me. Thanks!

In the meantime, looks like DPL doesn't like {{{uses}}} anymore and News links require a colon like file links. Reddo any idea what's up?

I've been reflecting on the Odyssey timeline. Specifically, my kids asked how long Whit was gone in the Middle East. Now, I know it was just over 3 years between Gone (September 1993) and Home Sweet Home (November 1996), but how much Odyssey time passed? Of course, any time we start thinking about the number of years that have passed, things will get a little goofy since some kids age and Whit and other adults never do. (Connie is her own unique situation as well.) But I've been thinking that based on the flow of school and summer episodes plus Christmas episodes, could we construct a sort of estimated timeline for all of Odyssey? I'm wondering if anyone has done any work with this or if there is somewhere on the wiki that a page has collected some of this information. If not, I am interested in starting to compile what I can.

Who wishes Alice Funderburk was a more frequent character?

I think we should all share our ideas for what they should do for the issue of Will Ryan's death.

Beezee doesn't have a profile pic or Trey.