All Tips

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. 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, 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:

• Tree House Books "Does-Book Giveaways".
• Old City Fest "Is-Annual Event".
• Triple Bottom Brewing "Makes-Beer".
• New Freedom Theatre "Teaches-Acting".
• Sally's Links is "About-Agriculture".

12. On some of our pages, you'll see "(Is-Past)" in the title. It's part of what we do when a page's subject goes defunct. For example, a local nonprofit shuts down, and their Wikidelphia page's link goes dead. We'll try to find a new link, because maybe the organization is still open, but it changed its website. We do a search, and if that fails, then we mark the page "(Is-Past)". We don't delete it, because we want the information available to local historians, and also because a closure doesn't mean that the organization didn't have a great idea for somebody else to learn from and develop.

13. One way we find ideas for new pages is to check local news outlets. Over the years we've put together an interesting collection of local sources.

14. Beginning in February 2026, we start migrating non-local pages to our excellent sister site, OtherNetworks.org. Our staff editor has been wanting to do it for a long time, and recently our consultant (Grok AI) validated the idea: Wikidelphia should cover Philadelphia, especially since we have the OtherNetworks site, where non-local pages would fit very well. So, more and more pages will be marked with the Category Is-Marked For Migration To OtherNetworks, and more and more pages will actually be moved there. Wikidelphia will become more and more focused on Philly.
 Note: Our X account has already been Philly-centric since its beginning.

15. Wikidelphia is mobile-optimized (mostly)! In late 2025, our provider updated our software, and a few of our features needed repair. BUT, there's a big benefit: If you rotate your phone (90°) to landscape mode, you can read everything! Text isn't tiny and un-zoomable! (Maybe you'll need to zoom a wee bit or Hide a sidebar.) The same phone-friendly "upgrade" has been discovered at our non-Philly sister site Other Networks.

16. Wikidelphia has a disproportionately difficult time staying up-to-date. It's not for lack of trying! One factor: We can only pay our Staff Editor for six hours a week. Another: We don't wait for an organization to become well-established. We welcome newbies! Occasionally, we discover a place and list it before it even opens, e.g., the Museum of the American Revolution, which we listed a year or more before it opened, and we added "In The News" updates all along. But welcoming newbies comes with a problem: they often fail, and so their Wikidelphia pages go out-of-date. It doesn't stop our eagerness to include the newest.

17. On our X account @Wikidelphia1, I (staff editor Paul) re-post various events in Philly. Most aren't political, but some are. The political ones do not imply endorsement. What we do endorse is your going out and enjoying something in person. When looking at an event post, I ask:

1. Is the event in-person?
2. Is it within the city limits?
3. Is it at least 24 hours in the future?

 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.