Wikidelphia Meeting 2025 February

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These notes come from a Wikidelphia meeting held on 2025 February 13. These are just notes and should not be taken as verbatim quotations.

Present were Wikidelphia Instigator Stan Pokras (S), Staff Editor Paul Sank (P), and volunteer Ted Hewson (T).

9:00 PM

T: FindHelp, 211, wikidelphia, we're going to include, leading to training in how to use the resources and how they're useful.

A Google Sheet with tabs ... questions ... list of functionality ... various tools ... identify gaps and opportunities for collaborative development.

FindHelp.org meeting set up. Setting up with 211. We'll meet with others too.

Spreadsheet needs strengths-weaknesses-opportunities-threats data from Wikidelphia.

We went thru it on Tuesday.

[T shares screen.]

Some things on it aren't things that Wikidelphia is good at—not in our scope. Others definitely are to our advantage. Our primary goal would differ from FindHelp's. ...

We'll see where the exercise leads. No rush. The intent: learn how to ... train ... all parties involved.

The focus of FindHelp is direct services for free or low-cost.

Checkmarks mean the organization itself has claimed its entry and does its own updating.

[T calls S.]

[S joins.]

S: Integrating Wikidelphia and Other Networks.

What to do with two terms? 'Remote viewing' vs 'remote perception'. In theory, you can't have too many terms, because different people use different words to find the same thing.

Extraterrestials. There's been a spate of sightings. More people are paying attention. Government and military have been pooh-poohing while also admitting they've captured aliens and 'biologics'.

T: 'Remote viewing' I get but not 'remote perception'.

S: This interests people because of a desire to understand why they're here. Remote viewing and remote perception are said to be pathways to the understanding.

P: To me, viewing would be a subset of perception.

S: ... Ubiquity University ...

T: Back to Wikidelphia vs ON. Wikidelphia is specifically associated with Philly.

S: What to do when we have related topics?

T: Give an example.

S: Other Networks has a bigger problem of being language-sensitive, with more people.

Understand relationship of ... categories within Wikidelphia. I have the category methodology of categories in Wikidelphia that's different from in Other Networks.

an 'issue' is something ... operate within a realm which becomes the issue with that org.

book, ambient findability. the best explana of how relashps shd occur among categs. my go-to book, need to finish reading it. ... helping peo with diffrt terms find the same thing.

we have a language guy here.

t: so, how to simplify designations so more peop will get to the same place.

s: how do I get to wik fr here. [shares screen, the Main Page]

we have several approaches re categs.

t: if you search for 'children', do you get the categs re children?

p: Search Categories

s: Super Issues and Popular Issues

SI is a set of cats that have a large nbr o pages. more than 5 or 10. e.g. issue-justice, issue-social_justice.

Search Categories for 'children'. i have not had specificly expert people give feedback on this system.

'children' brought up a list of categs.

t: there's also 'youth'. which to use?

s: serves-childr is separate fr ...

t: looking at larger categs ... serves-children_and_youth.

s: let's look at ...

t: does a page have children AND youth? look at The City School. ah, there are [x] that serve youth and [y] that serve children. add in serves-children_and_youth.

p: just go ahead and put both.

s: put both.

look at serves-youth. list of items. look at North Philly Project. does afterschool, does, does, does, issue-community (253), community develpmt, engagement, etc.

t: with so many categors, pretty indiscriminate.

s: one cat is not appropriate.

t: within cats ... all those are sort of like--

s: back to ON. super vs popular: pop have more than a few; super have a smaller nbr. i'm not satisfied that it makes the best sense. was my intention to figure out how to use multiple cats. i was worried that issues pointing to each other would cause confusion in e sys, but it doesn't.

in ON i have a very diffrt sys of bringing things together.

t: give it a go.

s: ON is a diffrt sys called Special Collections. in SCs ere are things like ... issue-education has 13 subcats and 8x pages.

environmental educa has 11 pages. look at issue-env_edu, it has issue-edu, should also have issue-env

Bulldog Films. issue-env, issue-env_edu are both here ...

gets more weird with issue-environment and i-climate. ... the way that the org uses the words. should say--oh it does.

go to issue-climate ...

t: ...

[this is getting cloudy and hard to take notes on]

t: hierarchy of issues needs clearer definition. cat, subcat, ... can you have multiple subcats, like three levels.

p: I think yes.

t: stan seems to have dropped out. how do we move twd future, clean up past ... is it worth it?

the way I use wik ...

[chit-chat]

[stan is back]

s: a sticky issue. were trying to have a practical system for peopole to interact in spite of using diffent words for same thing.

make one force the viewer to the other?

t: see how you WOULD do it ...

s: what i would like us to think about is, what do we want to do? how to make wik useful to more peo? then how to make it self-supporting? a subscription system? some other sys to bring in money? grant-writing?

t: our resources review will bring up some answers.

s: whether understandings will happen, we don't know it, but go ahead and see if it works

t: strength of wik categs ... can we make it simpler? ... train peo ... show its value

s: multi cats on a page ... serves-school, about-school, ... gives flexibility, reaches into concept of findability

s: ambient findability is the readable one among the four I have.

find help 211 Ubiquity University Other Networks