Wikidelphia Meeting 2026 February
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These notes come from a Wikidelphia meeting held on 2026 February 5. These are just notes and should not be taken as verbatim quotations.
Present were Wikidelphia Instigator Stan Pokras (S) and Staff Editor Paul Sank (P).
[9:32pm]
[talk about pay, funding, spirituality ...]
S: "Prayer doesn't change things; it changes people; and PEOPLE change things." ~ A DJ I heard on WIBG when I was about 12 years old. He said it twice a week or so.
P: Well, that's at least one mechanism by which prayer does work.
[More chat, about AI, extraterrestrials ...]
S: Humanity Rising has a theologian and a Jungian ...
[9:45pm]
S: Jim Garrison, does have an ON page. President of Ubiquity University, the home of Humanity Rising, created in May 2020 for 3 months. After break, it started up again, 5 days a week. HR now has 1,163 episodes as of today.
The Page Itself: HR!Day1163 - Fri 2/06/26 The Secret of the Golden Flower - Eve Jackson
S: It's the day page format, of which we have close to 1,100. Earlier pages were different.
P: It's a good looking format [and I'm picky about that sort of thing].
S: See under "Videos" the day's Humanity Rising video recording. "AfterChat Video Recording" is a video recording of the talk we had after the meeting--typically involving thirty or forty people.
Below these two items, see the two text-format Chat records.
The Page Itself: Day1163HRChat
S: In the third column are links to two lists. [One of the lists is this one:]
The Page Itself: List of Humanity Rising Day Pages
S: January 30 (Saving Democracy in Minneapolis) was hard to take.
The Page Itself: HR!Day1162 - Fri 1/30/26 Saving Democracy in Minneapolis - Craig Neal, Amy Blumenshine & Mike Troutman
P: I look forward to learning from these formats. Now, in order to migrate pages from Wikidelphia to ON, I'll need to be able to log in to ON. Any progress on that?
S: Our WikiMedia software was totally replaced. Certain things stopped working.
To-Do: Test all parts and report flaws of wikidelphia.
P: [Tries to log in to ON. Shows S the resulting error page.]
[Conversation about how to get a P a set of login info.]
S: Steve Cox is a good example of an Other Networks page for an individual. Note the Participation section.
The Page Itself: Steve Cox
The Page Itself: Meeting summary for ChatPeople AfterChat Zoom (01/26/2024)
The Page Itself: Humanity Rising Day 552 After Chat – Tuesday October 4, 2022 ]
P: I'm seeing many pages here that are clearly in a standardized format, so I have a good set of examples to follow.
S: The picture you see in my Zoom background is a painting called the The Light. It's one of my favorites.
[Conversation about how S and P met in the early 1980s at a Learning Annex class that S was teaching. It was called "The Networking Game". Afterwards, S and P walked to S's house in Northern Liberties. A friendship was started, and it continues today.]
[Discussion of bugs that have appeared in Wikidelphia since the latest WikiMedia software update. Tests are conducted, and screenshots are made, which will be sent to the developer.]
S: Looking for a version that works with current WikiMedia. ...
P: So that's it for starting a list of things to get fixed in one swoop.
[S and P open the ON page [1].
S: Note the pulldown arrows to see the Categories. Note how the Categories in the pulldown list are mixed. The Subcategories are also mixed. [I.e., they're not all "Does" something or "Is" something or "Issue" something.]