Wikidelphia Meeting 2025 August (Grok Report)

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These notes come from a Wikidelphia meeting held on 2025 August 7. 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).

9:00pm

T: I sent P links to youth-engaged groups to add to Wikidelphia.

P: Did you check to see if we already have them?

T: Yes. They're all very active, well recognized ... I'm connecting with their leaders.

P: Equal Info Text Line seems to do similar work to ours.

T: [looks for the message P sent]

I signed up for it. Got an initial text and a sense of what they're doing. I haven't evaluated any of it yet. ... Some links are helpful. It is Philly-specific.

I may reach out to them and have a conversation. Meanwhile, I'll be sharing some of their info with others.

P: [gets on X and tells Equal Info about that]

T: I have had trouble logging in to X.

P: What about starting a new account?

Reminder: I want to share stuff on X from you two.

T: [tries to log into X ...]

S: I'm looking for my bookmark for X.

P: [T shares screen; P helps T get on X; gives T a tour]

S: Please unshare your screen.

T: I sent P the info of four organizations.

P: Happy to post 'em.

S: I'll mark the EITL page with my SRP template as a bookmark. You'll leave it there, right?

P: Yes.

You (S) said you want to do more Wikidelphia work.

S: I need more sleep, better walking ability, and fewer distractions. I'm introducing SONAI to Wikidelphia. SONAI and Wikidelphia have a relationship starting.

Both are owned by Community Magic. The state wants me to make a report each year.

T: I just did that for Peace Like a River.

P: A Form 990?

T: I dunno what they're looking for. It asked for basic info like address, ... not financials or ... it was basic, address, name, officers.

P: So, S, maybe it's simple for Community Magic?

S: If you ever need to remove a SRP template, let me know.

P: I've never had to do that.

P: S, you asked about the Where and the Not_Local categories.

S: Your interests are as important to me as anyone's.

S: I believe in Wikidelphia as [covering more than the city].

T: I'm reaching out to the Resolve Philly site.

S: EITL now has my SRP stamp on it.

SRP has two rules that i use, little programs 'Dynamic SRP Page Old-to-New' and '... New-to-Old'. The oldest page is 'template:srp'.

I'm wishing for an editor like you for Other Networks—to get funding for paying somebody, and it may bleed over to helping pay you, P. Michael W., manager of ... Kindness ... Foundation. I think "helpfulness" is better.

There's a huge community that relates to who else is doing something.

P: 'Helpfulness' is better, because it doesn't have political baggage attached.

S: My saying, "Helpfulness Brings People into Focus"—I'm trying to spread the word.

I've just written a couple of versions of mission statements for Other Networks.

I'm not leading this group very well. Apologies. It's my invention as well as Wikidelphia.

S: I just received a book, Urban Networking by Michael Rice, and he says I'm mentioned in it.

Michael Rice is very sincere and focused. His focus on urban networking is very clear, and he doesn't vary much from his basic theme.

I want to review it for Amazon.

Excellent for ... and coaching ...

I have too many books.

P: Don't all three of us? (LOL)

S: Also, the book, Change, by Damon Centola, subtitled How To Make Big Things Happen. I believe he'll tell me that.

He mentions the Strength of Weak Ties principle and other things I've been saying for years ... Big changes have happened through networking. He studies the Arab Spring.

P: I thought that was a disaster.

S: It was and wasn't. He explores what did and didn't happen.

One interesting thing: a couple dozen one-minute videos that explore things he's done research on.

P: YouTube links?

S: Search for his name. [The following week, P tries and fails to find the videos.]

There are websites in the world that should be interesting to him, and he's not mentioned.

Did i send you "how to search a website for a particlr word or phrase"?

P: I'd like that for SGOL.

S: I'd like to understand the world that SGOL explores.

My new opinion: The function of the brain is to interpret the heart and body into words that the brain can use to express to itself and others. You can't discuss things that haven't been named.

Any particular topic has a huge number of keywords, which is why one of my principles is there can't be too many Categories. (Unless a Category hasn't been created appropriately.) Almost everybody sees everything with different viewpoints.

There are more terms for anything than ... I don't believe in such a thing as the right category.

T: The beauty of flexibility of Wikidelphia and Other Networks.

S: HR page on ON has over 60 cats

T: I knew Mic Rice sounded familiar. he registered for all 3 summits and didn't show up. reached out to him abt networking.

T: he's one of two that way.

S: now that we've mentioned him btw us, contact is more likely

book is writtn in hi-school level, good for his audience. concepts are repeated from diffrt angles. he's an amazing writer and lecture. i met him c 15 years ago.

when i first hear him, 'whoa, this guy has something to offer'.

i havent been workg on Wik much, so he hasn't come up.

book is primly for Af-Am residnts o Phil. not explicitly so.

P: gotta have SOME kinda target audience.

T: kindle

P: the kindle electronic paper is much easier on the eyes.

T: ...

S: i tend to think of topics ito book titles

trying to get to read Adam Grant's Give and Take. he wrote something complementary on cover of Centola's book.

'tipping point' by adam gradwell

i'd like to connect with him, a knowledgbl genius about networks

P met me at a networking event

P: [recounts our meeting]

S: thank you for being my friend.

P: likewise

S: in spite of differing opinions

P: [gives example of different opin]

T: an eg also of how people interpret things diffrtly

T: good discussn

S: offline, P and I will deal with place and how Wik handles it.

T: next mtg

S: i may change afterchat link to zoom spaces. (this is the afterchat zoom space)

P: i will clean up and post these notes.

S: i'm still recovering from the 6 years of HR

T: you sound better

S: my doctors agree.

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