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Note: To communicate with me right now, here's my Talk page.

Bio

In August 2015 I signed on as staff editor of Wikidelphia. This wide-scope Philadelphia website was in need of someone to pay attention to it long-term and help expand the site more than its busy progenitor Stan could do by himself.

Wikidelphia is one among several information collections efforts I've undertaken:

In late 2018, I decided to expand my World's Fairs bookmarks from a short list to a whole page. It didn't stop there. Once I caught the World's Fair bug, I kept adding and adding until the site grew to more than 30 pages containing what may be more than 10,000 links covering expositions from the Great Exhibition of 1851 until the present day.

In the first decade of this century, I started and have been gradually expanding another reference source. It's called Study Love, and it's a place to learn about or meditate upon spiritual love (agape). The site is large, detailed, well-organized, and stunningly fast-loading.

Slowly I'm also building a personal glossary of linguistics that I share publicly. In a more specialized vein, in 2009, I started slowly adding the Stratificational Grammar collection of terms to Glottopedia, getting advice from the father of that grammar, Sydney Lamb.

From 2007 to 2014, I held the "chief clerk" job (doing website maintenance, flier creation, operations reports, and various other clerical tasks) at Nonprofit Technology Resources (NTR), which was what I would liken to a Goodwill for computers.

Info

Stan
Jon Paul Sank's World's Fairs Page
Study Love
Glossary: Sank's Glossary of Linguistics
Glossary: Stratificational Grammar
Linguistics: Glottopedia
Sydney Lamb: Sydney Lamb
NTR: Nonprofit Technology Resources

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-In August 2015, I got a little job editing Wikidelphia. Wikidelphia was in need of someone to pay attention to the whole project in a sustained, overseeing way and help expand it more than its busy progenitor [[User:Stan|Stan Pokras]] can do by himself.
+''Note:''&nbsp;To communicate with me right now, here's my [[User_talk:PaulSank|Talk page]].
-One experience that qualifies me: I started and have been gradually expanding another reference source. It's called [[Study Love]], and it's a place to learn about or meditate upon the most important force in the universe: spiritual love (''agape'', as opposed to ''eros'' or ''philia''). The site is large, detailed, well-organized, easy to use, and very fast.
+==Bio==
-I'm also building a [http://studylove.org/ling/jpsgloss.html glossary of linguistics]. When I see a term I don't know, I look it up and make an entry from what I find. Back in 2009, I added the Stratificational Grammar collection of terms [http://www.glottopedia.org/index.php/Stratificational_Grammar glottopedia.org/index.php/Stratificational_Grammar] to Glottopedia, getting advice from the father of that grammar himself, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Lamb Sydney Lamb].
+In August 2015 I signed on as staff editor of Wikidelphia. This wide-scope Philadelphia website was in need of someone to pay attention to it long-term and help expand the site more than its busy progenitor Stan could do by himself.
-Something else I do personally is to provide five daily Twitter news-and-views services where I find and share headlines and links relevant to various topics including [http://www.twitter.com/lifenetnews poverty], [http://www.twitter.com/netman3 malaria], the [http://www.twitter.com/FruitNJ fruit of the Spirit], [http://www.twitter.com/LingFan1 linguistics].
+Wikidelphia is one among several information collections efforts I've undertaken:
-I also volunteer at various events, fundraisers, festivals. Most often in 2015: The [[African American Museum in Philadelphia|African American Museum in Philadelphia]]'s Macy's Family Fun Days.
+In late 2018, I decided to expand my World's Fairs bookmarks from a short list to a whole page. It didn't stop there. Once I caught the World's Fair bug, I kept adding and adding until the site grew to more than 30 pages containing what may be more than 10,000 links covering expositions from the Great Exhibition of 1851 until the present day.
-A larger part of any bio of me would have to describe Life-Net News &amp; Radio: Life-Net News was a newsletter, sometimes monthly, sometimes weekly, sometimes printed. I selected stories from the press and elsewhere about poverty, without regard to political angle, and condensed them to their essentials. Along with Life-Net News, from 1998 to 2010, I made a radio show, Life-Net Radio, a densely packed, fully layered, professional-sounding production. Again, the idea was to find guests from as many vantage points as possible. All told, I produced over 540 new episodes, and a listener tuning in on any week enjoyed having less than a 10% chance of hearing a rerun. In 2008, I received the [http://www.presidentialserviceawards.gov/the-award President’s Lifetime Achievement Award].
+In the first decade of this century, I started and have been gradually expanding another reference source. It's called Study Love, and it's a place to learn about or meditate upon spiritual love (''agape''). The site is large, detailed, well-organized, and stunningly fast-loading.
-From 2007 to 2014, I held the "chief clerk" job doing website maintenance, flier creation, operations reports, and various other clerical tasks at [[Nonprofit Technology Resources]], which was founded by Stan.
+Slowly I'm also building a personal glossary of linguistics that I share publicly. In a more specialized vein, in 2009, I started slowly adding the Stratificational Grammar collection of terms to Glottopedia, getting advice from the father of that grammar, Sydney Lamb.
-My religious affiliation is [http://www.pcanet.org/ Presbyterian Church in America] (PCA), a Bible-believing denomination that shouldn't be confused with the secular-leaning Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA).
+From 2007 to 2014, I held the "chief clerk" job (doing website maintenance, flier creation, operations reports, and various other clerical tasks) at Nonprofit Technology Resources (NTR), which was what I would liken to a Goodwill for computers.
-I've been married to my excellent first-and-only wife for more than a quarter century. We have a happy little Eskimo-Chihuahua dog we both love ridiculously.
+==Info==
+*[[User:Stan|Stan]]
+*[[Jon Paul Sank's World's Fairs Page]]
+*[[Study Love]]
+*Glossary:&nbsp;[http://studylove.org/ling/jpsgloss.html Sank's Glossary of Linguistics]
+*Glossary:&nbsp;[http://www.glottopedia.org/index.php/Category:Stratificational_Grammar Stratificational Grammar]
+*Linguistics:&nbsp;[http://www.glottopedia.org Glottopedia]
+*Sydney Lamb:&nbsp;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Lamb Sydney Lamb]
+*NTR:&nbsp;[[Nonprofit Technology Resources (NTR) (Now Closed)|Nonprofit Technology Resources]]
-[[User:PaulSank|PaulSank]] 18:29, 16 December 2015 (EST)
+<br>[[User:PaulSank|PaulSank]] ([[User talk:PaulSank|talk]]) 14:30, 25 October 2019 (EDT)
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-Paul, thanks for writing up your personal experience at the Franklin Institute! &nbsp;[[User:Stan|Stan]] 17:31, 7 March 2011 (EST)
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