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Welcome to the Mayberry Historical Society

The Mayberry Historical Society invites the Mayberry community on the web to to create a history of town and county of Mayberry. One of our historians, Howard Sprague, has already created a complete episode guide (all 249 episodes) but we need to add details to all those episodes.

Finding your way around

The latest update to the Mayberry Historical Society resulted in the old left-hand Main Menu being hidden by default for visitors. Look in the upper-left corner of the page for the three-line hamburger menu (☰), next to the Mayberry Historical Society logo. Click it to open the Main Menu.

You can also use the search box at the top of every page. The most-used destinations from the Main Menu are listed below.

Main destinations

Current Projects

NOTE: The Historical Society is not currently allow additional users to join here on the site. This is due to the HIGH number of SPAM/False accounts. We will be opening back up for new users in the future. Currently, only existing users with accounts can login and make changes/additions to the wiki. - Allan

Project 1
We would like assistance in adding more information to the Episode Guide. Specifically adding facts to the "Odd Facts Know by Few" section of each episode and adding detail to the "Plot Summary" of episodes.

Project 2
We need help writing biographies for the characters appearing on The Andy Griffith Show. We have the beginnings of a listing on the Character List page. When you visit, you'll see a lot of links in red. Red links mean that there is no article written for that character. Please help us complete our information.

Project 3
Add your knowledge to our Mayberry FAQs section. These should be questions that people frequently have about some aspect of The Andy Griffith Show or on of its characters. This is not simply a list of trivia. We have a section for trivia as well if that's where your interest is so feel free to add there as well.

Please make your contributions in order to make our historical records of the County and Town of Mayberry, NC as complete as possible.

If you'd like to help, PLEASE click the Community Portal link for information.

Please try and format your submission of information in a way similar to the existing information so we can have a consistent look and feel to the data. If you don't know how to format, just do the best you can and our editors will try and come behind and fix things up. We need your help so we're glad to help out in anyway we can.

Please do not use copyrighted information. We want to make sure our efforts are in the spirit of Mayberry so please don't copy episode descriptions from other folks websites without permission. Feel free to copy any information from iMayberry.com and TAGSRWC.com since this project is a sister to those websites.

Please see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents for usage and configuration help. Another great wiki editing guide can be found at Wikipedia.

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-==Welcome to the Mayberry Gossip Club==
+[[File:Mayberry_historical_society_image_450.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Mayberry Historical Society]]
+==Welcome to the Mayberry Historical Society==
-The Mayberry community on the web now has a chance using this site to create a '''complete''' episode guide, character list of [[The Andy Griffith Show]], and knowledge base of everything Mayberry. The seeds for the episode list can be found below and if you'd like to know how to help, just click the [[Community Portal]] link for information. We'd need you and we'd love to have your help.
+The Mayberry Historical Society invites the Mayberry community on the web to to create a history of town and county of Mayberry. One of our historians, [[User:Howard Sprague|Howard Sprague]], has already created a  '''complete''' episode guide (all 249 episodes) but we need to add details to all those episodes.
+[[File:Logo banner flyer 2023v3 500px.jpg|link=https://www.weaversdepartmentstore.com|thumb|right|Shop at [https://www.weaversdepartmentstore.com Weaver's Department Store]]]
-[[Episode Guide]]
+==Finding your way around==
+The latest update to the Mayberry Historical Society resulted in the old left-hand '''Main Menu''' being hidden by default for visitors. Look in the '''upper-left corner''' of the page for the three-line '''hamburger menu''' (☰), next to the Mayberry Historical Society logo. Click it to open the Main Menu.
-[[Character List]]
+You can also use the search box at the top of every page. The most-used destinations from the Main Menu are listed below.
+'''Main destinations'''
+* [[Mayberry_Historical_Society:Community_Portal|Community Portal]]
+* [[Episode Guide]]
+* [[Character List]]
+* [[:Category:FAQ|Mayberry FAQs]]
+* [[:Category:Trivia_of_Mayberry|Trivia of Mayberry]]
+* [[Podcast|Mayberry Podcasts]]
+* [[Special:RecentChanges|Recent changes]]
+* [[Help:Contents|Help]]
+* [https://www.weaversdepartmentstore.com Shop Weaver's Department Store]
-Please see [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_i18n documentation on customizing the interface]
+==Current Projects==
-and the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide] for usage and configuration help.
+'''NOTE:''' ''The Historical Society is not currently allow additional users to join here on the site. This is due to the HIGH number of SPAM/False accounts. We will be opening back up for new users in the future. Currently, only existing users with accounts can login and make changes/additions to the wiki. ''- Allan
+<strong>Project 1</strong><br>
+We would like assistance in adding more information to the [[Episode Guide]]. Specifically adding facts to the "Odd Facts Know by Few" section of each episode and adding detail to the "Plot Summary" of episodes.<br>
+<br>
+<strong>Project 2</strong><br>
+We need help writing biographies for the characters appearing on The Andy Griffith Show. We have the beginnings of a listing on the [[Character List]] page. When you visit, you'll see a lot of links in red. Red links mean that there is no article written for that character. Please help us complete our information.<br>
+<br>
+<strong>Project 3</strong><br>
+Add your knowledge to our [[:Category:FAQ|Mayberry FAQs]] section.  These should be questions that people frequently have about some aspect of The Andy Griffith Show or on of its characters. This is not simply a list of trivia.  We have a [[:Category:Trivia_of_Mayberry|section for trivia]] as well if that's where your interest is so feel free to add there as well.<br>
+Please make your contributions in order to make our historical records of the County and Town of Mayberry, NC as complete as possible.
+If you'd like to help, '''PLEASE''' click the [[Mayberry_Historical_Society:Community_Portal|Community Portal]] link for information.
+* Please try and format your submission of information in a way similar to the existing information so we can have a consistent look and feel to the data. If you don't know how to format, just do the best you can and our editors will try and come behind and fix things up. We need your help so we're glad to help out in anyway we can.
+* '''Please do not use copyrighted information'''. We want to make sure our efforts are in the spirit of Mayberry so please don't copy episode descriptions from other folks websites without permission. Feel free to copy any information from [http://www.imayberry.com iMayberry.com] and [http://www.tagsrwc.com TAGSRWC.com] since this project is a sister to those websites.
+Please see [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents] for usage and configuration help. Another great wiki editing guide can be found at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing Wikipedia].