All Tips

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This page lists all of the Tips that appear one-at-a-time on our Main Page.

1. Wikidelphia Resource Pages will sometimes be a great place for you to look. For example, the Food and Agriculture Resource Page includes a long list of Wikidelphia Categories covering a wide range on food, horticulture, agriculture, etc.

2. When you want to add some fun things to your personal calendar, come on back over to Wikidelphia and have a look-see at "Does-Event Calendar", our big collection of links to Wikidelphia pages that have event calendars! Many of the organizations and places on Wikidelphia have their own calendars, so pick some orgs you like the look of, and see if they have events you'd like to add to your calendar! When you get to each page, you'll find "Event Calendar" under the "Info" heading.

3. If you're planning a visit to Philly, or you've already arrived, you'll benefit from a look at our Category Is-Tourist Attraction. You may also wish to check out Is-Museum, Is-Restaurant, Does-Theatre, Is-Cultural Venue, Is-Arts Venue, Is-Music Venue, Is-Historic Landmark, and Is-City Guide.

4. Philadelphia has many more museums than we ever knew, until we found as many of them as we could for Wikidelphia. See all we have in the Is-Museum Category list. Most museums are also marked with Categories that are more specific, e.g. Is-Military Museum or Is-Historic House Museum.

5. Wikidelphia is a go-to site for volunteer opportunities. Under the Category Using_Volunteers, just look over the big list of organizations, and pick one you want to volunteer for. The organization's Wikidelphia page will probably have a direct link to its Volunteer page where you can inquire or apply.

6. When you do a search for something you already know the name of, there's a pretty good chance that you can just type in the acronym. For example, "FNC" will easily pull up the Federation of Neighborhood Centers.

7. Sometimes when you look at a Category, it has so many pages that you'd rather shrink the list before you look it over. That's what Multi-Category Search (in the left sidebar of every page) is for! If you use it to do a search using two or more Categories, the results will be easier to deal with.

8. When you click or tap on an external link (a link that takes you outside Wikidelphia), a new window will open on the site you're going to. Then you can explore that freely, and when you're done, just tab-switch back to the Wikidelphia window. We made it this way so that you won't exit Wikidelphia until you actually decide to.

9. Our X account (@wikidelphia1), which we hope you'll follow, has a few main objectives:

  • Give everybody updates on what's happening at Wikidelphia. (Obviously.)
  • Re-post announcements of upcoming in-person events—both fun and serious—all over Philly.
  • Share announcements of job fairs and other hiring events.
  • Share announcements of events where you can get free food or other necessities.
  • Add connections to Philly's network of helpful do-gooders. (We like to say, "Helpfulness brings people into focus.")

10. One thing I keep hoping I'll get permission to do is to remove pages that aren't local to—or closely linked to—Philadelphia. The pages would still be available, but they'd be located at our sister site, Other Networks (ON), which is maintained by Wikidelphia's progenitor, Stan Pokras. ON has lots of fascinating links from around the nation and the world. Go have a look!

11. The original idea behind naming our categories was to write something like the predicate of a sentence. Examples:

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