User blog comment:Tamagod12345/My urge to renovate the wiki/@comment-36678579-20190915231414

Hey there, I'm Pigeon, the Moomin Wiki admin. It's great that you are passionate about helping us to tidy up this Wiki and get it more active!

With this Wiki having been inactive for a good six years before I started working on it and bringing it back to life, we do try to prioritise edits and changes in terms of importance. So choosing and adding a new background is not that high on the list of things to do, compared to making sure that pages on the Main Characters are up to date and accurate, as that's what people notice a lot more. However, we will get around to it! I've already made major changes to the theme of the Wiki, I'd like to wait until we've fixed some of the more outstanding issues on the Wiki before trying to gather enough people to make a group decision on changing the background. The current colour theme matches the scene from the 90's Moomin anime when Moomintroll is flying on a cloud, so it isn't unrelated to the Wiki!

You're absolutely free to add images of the book covers in Finnish, Swedish and Japanese to the articles on books, most articles have a Gallery already so it is easy to add to that if you wish. It's also fine for you to collect screenshots for the 1969 and 1972 anime series to add to their respective articles. And it's fine if you want to add Japanese translations to articles, we already add Swedish and Finnish name translations to character articles, for example, so Japanese name translations are welcome too.

You don't need to ask permission to make these changes, they are welcome! With any bigger changes it is important that we work together as much as possible to make decisions, and agree on things as a group before implementing any major changes. But your suggestions aren't something you need to ask permission for - if you want to start adding photos to article galleries then that is very welcome!

RE adding videos: I would advise against adding videos unless you have the specific legal rights to upload and host them on here, as we've had to take down a number of videos that went against copyright agreements. If you're a Wiki user who is well versed in copyright laws and what can or can't be uploaded then please go ahead and add videos, however we've had users adding any video they find on YouTube, regardless of whether we are legally allowed to host them, which has caused issues.

If you are asking for other people to source translations and images for you however, you'll have to do that yourself as we don't have a lot of regular volunteers, and people don't come here to do research for other users, it's more that they come with the knowledge and information they have and then add what they can to improve the Wiki! It's great that you've noticed that these things would be good to have on the Wiki, but if you can't add them yourself then it's a case of waiting around for someone else to do it, as there's lots of other issues that people are noticing and fixing - I have my own To-Do list on my profile that I'm working through!

I hope I've been able to help? Anyone is welcome to add images and translations etc, you only need to ask permission and communicate with other volunteers (or myself) if you are wanting to make any major changes, such as re-formatting pages or categories, etc.

Also, just as a side-note, as Moomin is a children's series and there may be younger people coming to this Wiki, I do ask you to refrain from any cursing, including mild curses such as "crap". Moomin is for all ages so we strive to make this Moomin Wiki available to all as well! Thank you!