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<td><font color="#660000" face="Times New Roman,serif"> <big>''WIKIDELPHIA UPDATE BOARD''</big></font> | <td><font color="#660000" face="Times New Roman,serif"> <big>''WIKIDELPHIA UPDATE BOARD''</big></font> | ||
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◊ The most recent '''historic preservation''' conversion of a page was <u>[[PhilaStories.org (Is-Past)]]</u>, done on July 22, 2026. | |||
<br>◊ On July 21, 2026, we scheduled "Random H.R. Page on O.N." X posts (or tweets) for '''Humanity Rising''' episodes [https://othernetworks.org/HR!Day1039 #1039] and [https://othernetworks.org/HR!Day306 #306] to appear on July 23 and July 27. | |||
<br>◊ Wikidelphia's '''newest''' (finished) '''page''' is <u>[[What U Scared To Say Podcast]]</u>, completed on July 20, 2026. | |||
<br>◊ On | <br>◊ The latest '''full update''' of a page was done to <u>[[Sang Kee Peking Duck House]]</u> on July 20, 2026. | ||
<br>◊  | <br>◊ '''Photos''' from randomly selected Wikidelphia pages were added (below on this Main Page) on July 20, 2026. The older two were moved to the bottom. | ||
<br>◊ '''Photos''' from randomly selected Wikidelphia pages were added (below on this Main Page) on | <br>◊ The page most recently '''migrated to [https://www.othernetworks.org OtherNetworks]''' is <u>[https://othernetworks.org/Human_Race_Movement Human Race Movement]</u>, which was moved on July 16, 2026. | ||
<br>◊  | <br>◊ Our '''newest stub''' is <u>[[Indecorous Theatre Productions]]</u>, posted on July 13, 2026. | ||
<!--<br>◊ The latest '''news item''' was added on April 14, 2026. It's from [https://www.westphillylocal.com/ West Philly Local] and appears on our <u>[[Kingsessing Recreation Center]]</u> page. | <!--<br>◊ The latest '''news item''' was added on April 14, 2026. It's from [https://www.westphillylocal.com/ West Philly Local] and appears on our <u>[[Kingsessing Recreation Center]]</u> page. | ||
<br>◊ To see '''what's new''' generally, check out our X (Twitter) profile (<u>[http://www.x.com/wikidelphia1 @Wikidelphia1]</u>), or see the <u>[[Special:RecentChanges|Recent Changes]]</u> list.--> | <br>◊ To see '''what's new''' generally, check out our X (Twitter) profile (<u>[http://www.x.com/wikidelphia1 @Wikidelphia1]</u>), or see the <u>[[Special:RecentChanges|Recent Changes]]</u> list.--> | ||
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<td><font color="#00cc00">'''''Your suggestions are welcome!''''' </font>[http://nominations.othernetworks.org/limesurvey/index.php/4?lang=en '''<big><font color="#0000ff"><u>Nominate a Page Topic</u></font></big>'''] | <td><font color="#00cc00">'''''Your suggestions are welcome!''''' </font>[http://nominations.othernetworks.org/limesurvey/index.php/4?lang=en '''<big><font color="#0000ff"><u>Nominate a Page Topic</u></font></big>'''] | ||
<!--What Do You Think Wikidelphia Still Needs? <font size="+2">[https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/82JGYFV <font color="#298A08">Nominate Pages is Out of Order</font>]</font>--> | <!--What Do You Think Wikidelphia Still Needs? <font size="+2">[https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/82JGYFV <font color="#298A08">Nominate Pages is Out of Order</font>]</font>--> | ||
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<!--*[[:Category:Where-Philadelphia|<font size="+1">Where-Philadelphia</font>]] — Every neighborhood in Philadelphia.<br> [[:Category:Where-North_Philadelphia|N<small>ORTH</small>]] | [[:Category:Where-Northeast_Philadelphia|N<small>ORTHEAST</small>]] | [[:Category:Where-Center_City|C<small>ENTER</small> C<small>ITY</small>]] | [[:Category:Where-South_Philadelphia|S<small>OUTH</small>]] | [[:Category:Where-Southwest_Philadelphia|S<small>OUTHWEST</small>]] | [[:Category:Where-West_Philadelphia|W<small>EST</small>]] | [[:Category:Where-Northwest_Philadelphia|N<small>ORTHWEST</small>]] | <!--*[[:Category:Where-Philadelphia|<font size="+1">Where-Philadelphia</font>]] — Every neighborhood in Philadelphia.<br> [[:Category:Where-North_Philadelphia|N<small>ORTH</small>]] | [[:Category:Where-Northeast_Philadelphia|N<small>ORTHEAST</small>]] | [[:Category:Where-Center_City|C<small>ENTER</small> C<small>ITY</small>]] | [[:Category:Where-South_Philadelphia|S<small>OUTH</small>]] | [[:Category:Where-Southwest_Philadelphia|S<small>OUTHWEST</small>]] | [[:Category:Where-West_Philadelphia|W<small>EST</small>]] | [[:Category:Where-Northwest_Philadelphia|N<small>ORTHWEST</small>]] | ||
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<!--1. <u>[[:Category:Is-Wikidelphia_Resource_Page|Wikidelphia Resource Pages]]</u> will sometimes be a great place for you to look. For example, the <u>[[Food and Agriculture Resource Page]]</u> includes a long list of Wikidelphia Categories covering a wide range on food, horticulture, agriculture, etc.--> | <!--1. <u>[[:Category:Is-Wikidelphia_Resource_Page|Wikidelphia Resource Pages]]</u> will sometimes be a great place for you to look. For example, the <u>[[Food and Agriculture Resource Page]]</u> 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 "<u>[[:Category:Does-Event_Calendar|Does-Event Calendar]]</u>", 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.--> | <!--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 "<u>[[:Category:Does-Event_Calendar|Does-Event Calendar]]</u>", 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.--> | ||
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<!--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.--> | <!--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.--> | <!--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.--> | ||
 Our X account (<u>[https://www.x.com/wikidelphia1 @wikidelphia1]</u>), which we hope you'll follow, has a few main objectives: | |||
*Give everybody updates on what's happening at Wikidelphia. (Obviously.) | *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. | *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 job fairs and other hiring events. | ||
*Share announcements of events where you can get free food or other necessities. | *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.") | *Add connections to Philly's network of helpful do-gooders. (We like to say, "Helpfulness brings people into focus.") | ||
<!--10. Wikidelphia is gradually removing pages that aren't local to—or closely linked to—Philadelphia. The pages are still available, but they're located at our sister site, [https://www.othernetworks.org 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!--> | <!--10. Wikidelphia is gradually removing pages that aren't local to—or closely linked to—Philadelphia. The pages are still available, but they're located at our sister site, [https://www.othernetworks.org 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!--> | ||
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 If the answers are all "Yes", then it qualifies, and I leave it up to ''you'' to decide whether you like it and want to go there.--> |  If the answers are all "Yes", then it qualifies, and I leave it up to ''you'' to decide whether you like it and want to go there.--> | ||
<!--18. Descriptions of Wikidelphia subjects (organizations, companies, individuals, recurring events) are generally copied from the subject's own website, and thus they ''do not'' represent the views of Wikidelphia or its staff. In making Wikidelphia descriptions, I (staff editor Paul) avoid mission statements, because they often don't tell you what the subject actually ''does''. I avoid values statements for the same reason. Occasionally, a website doesn't have enough information for a description, so I go ask Grok AI a detailed query aimed at finding information from the widest possible variety of sources and summarizing it all in a useful paragraph or two.--> | |||
<!--19. On this page, the two blue-framed photos were selected randomly. The captions link you to Wikidelphia pages. Photos are copied from the Wikidelphia subject's (organization's, company's, etc.) own website, and as far as we could tell by looking closely, the pics are copyright-free enough for Wikidelphia to use for informing our visitors about the subject.--> | <!--19. On this page, the two blue-framed photos were selected randomly. The captions link you to Wikidelphia pages. Photos are copied from the Wikidelphia subject's (organization's, company's, etc.) own website, and as far as we could tell by looking closely, the pics are copyright-free enough for Wikidelphia to use for informing our visitors about the subject.--> | ||
<br> ''All of the Tips that appear in this section of the Main Page can be seen in one view on the <u>[[All Tips]]</u> page.'' | <br> ''All of the Tips that appear in this section of the Main Page can be seen in one view on the <u>[[All Tips]]</u> page.'' | ||
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Latest revision as of 17:18, 22 July 2026
Philly's Wiki Since 2011
- To sample our variety, use the "Next Random Page" sidebar-menu item to quickly bring up a random sample. Just click it, then see a page, then click it again, then see another, ...
- To look outside of Philadelphia, try our sister site, OtherNetworks! While you're there, look at some of the titles in the Searchable Listing of over 1,100 Humanity Rising Episodes, a series of recorded Zoom discussions that may include one that's irresistibly fascinating to you!
| WIKIDELPHIA UPDATE BOARD
◊ The most recent historic preservation conversion of a page was PhilaStories.org (Is-Past), done on July 22, 2026.
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Wikidelphia has 2,567 pages organized with over 3,400 overlapping categories (as of September 12, 2025).
"Where Philadelphia Discovers Collaborators"
Wikidelphia™ is primarily a crowd-sourced, categorized index to websites. It aims to answer the question, "What are the people of the Philadelphia region doing to help themselves, their neighbors and their communities?"
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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.")
All of the Tips that appear in this section of the Main Page can be seen in one view on the All Tips page.
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Big Links
TOP LEVEL: About | Does | Frequency | Is | Issue | Makes | Sells | Serves | Teaches | Using | Where
QUICK SEARCHES: Animal — Arts — Business — Children — Education — Employment — Families — Food — Health — Historic — Housing — Music — Seniors — Youth
- Does-Event Calendar — Event calendars from all over Philly.
- Does-Facility Rentals — Places to host your next event.
- Does-Online Store — Do some online shopping locally!
- Is-Museum — More than 90 museums!
- Local News — Chestnut Hill Local, Germantown Info Hub, Northeast Times, Passyunk Post, Roxborough Review, West Philly Local, etc.
- Arts & Culture Resource Page
- Community Resource Page
- Housing Resource Page
- Jobs Resource Page
- More Wikidelphia Resource Pages
- Advocacy: Is-Advocacy Organization — Shows a multitude of causes being championed!
- Businesses: Is-Business — Is-Business Association — Is-Business Directory — Is-Restaurant — Is-Store.
- Volunteer Here: Using-Volunteers — Volunteering in Philadelphia — Opportunities galore!
Annual Events ∗ Government Agencies ∗ Nonprofit Organizations ∗ Tourist Attractions
POPULAR ISSUES: Idea Pages ∗ Liberating Structures ∗ Other Networks Newsletter ∗ "Sullivan Principles"
Take charge of the information about your passion!
Get your name in lights (or bold text)! Register for free as an editor to add to or update Wikidelphia! Write to Stan Pokras (stan@communitymagic.org) for a username and password. If you've never made or edited a Wiki page before, we'll be delighted to give you a lesson. There will always be new pages to make and existing pages to update at Wikidelphia!
Calling all info geeks! Wikidelphia seeks Indexers and Topic Curators!
—Write to Stan if you're interested! stan@communitymagic.org—
See Also
Helpfulness brings people into focus. Community Magic collects and builds tools people can use to help members of their community. The aim is to make useful connections among neighbors and communities. When enough people are busy connecting their neighbors, and they themselves are connected to each other, magical things can happen!
Wikidelphia's sister site. A crowd sourced catalog of documents, people, organizations, and websites exploring digital alternatives from around the world.
| Stan's Original Introduction to Wikidelphia |
Wikidelphia is a trademark of and is managed by Community Magic, a project of the Uptown Entertainment and Development Corporation (UEDC).
Disclaimer
Wikidelphia does not recommend or endorse the agencies or resources listed on this site. This is an informational site only. We encourage users to carefully review and evaluate all services and decide what is best to meet their needs and the needs of their families, neighbors, clients, associates, and friends.
Contact Us
For questions or to volunteer, write a note to stan@communitymagic.org (Wikidelphia progenitor Stan).
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