Wikidelphia Meeting 2026 January

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These notes come from a Wikidelphia meeting held on 2026 January 15. 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]

P: [Raises the issue of page migration to Other Networks (ON).]

I pledge to adhere to whatever the page format at ON is. Can you send me a few links to ON pages that you like the look of?

S: 80% of pages on ON are good by me. "List of Humanity Rising Day Pages" has good examples.

P: Please now add me to ON.

S: Just "Request an Account".

P: [Does so. Gets an "Internal Error".]

S: Please show me the error.

P: [Makes a screenshot of the error message.]

To which of your email addresses do I send it?

S: [Speaks about his large number of e-addresses, which he thinks he should probably reduce.]

P: [Sends the screenshot to the three addresses he has.]

P: So, how to log in?

S: I need to send the error message to the tech people. Between now and then, I could try making a fictitious account so I'll get to see what happens.

I appreciate your editorial efforts, so you are now "promoted" to something more like a partner, where you work Wikidelphia while I work Other Networks. If I find something I don't like on Wikidelphia, I'll tell you about it.

P: [Is very pleased to hear this!]

S: [Speaks about AI.] ... getting SONAI to organize ... Apple scripting: a language for setting up, "open this", "take a screenshot", and so forth. ... a technique for SONAI to go through Humanity Rising pages and pick out keywords. When I get it, I can plug it into the scripting tool of my browser, and it'll put the keywords in proper places. It's a goal for me, to have all of the Humanity Rising pages fully catalogued. .

P: After the cataloguing, is there a way to back it up for preservation, since Humanity Rising involves more people than just you?

S: Yes, there are possibilities.

[...]

S: I put mutual links, where a Wikidelphia page links to its counterpart on ON, and vice versa.

P: Yes, that'd be helpful where I see them.

S: With some pages, I've dragged some info to ON and left the title and Categories on Wikidelphia.

S: Let's set a time for me to orient you to ON. Circa 30-60 minutes. I put a lot of thought into ON, and I'd like to tell you about that.

[...]

S: I've spent a lot more time on ON than Wikidelphia in recent years. The difference is so big that I hardly have any local friends anymore.

Can all our info about Philadelphia be made into something economically useful?

T: [Talks about a guy ...] ... info about this region ... Others are interested in the same space that Wikidelphia wants to occupy.

S: Explain the food summit to S.

T: March 25, 2026. Very sizeable. "Overcoming Food Insecurity Together'. [Gives summary.] Look at the bigger picture and understand challenges. We have a flier. Registration requirements are in place. There's a $100,000 budget, still to be approved.

S: I suggest that P get more involved with the food summit.

T: Three workshops per track. ... [Details.] ... The room (at the Convention Center) has a capacity of 600 people; we're expecting around 250 to 400.

T: Maybe P could help find contacts ...

S: AI is ready to give us that list.

P: Yeah, AI would be great for that. [Suggests S use SONAI.]

T: I sent you (P) that spreadsheet. About a third of the links weren't working.

P: Yes, I've stepped up on doing what updating I can on Wikidelphia generally.

[10:03pm]