- The channel discussed DIY fecal microbiota transplants as a legitimate but controversial “microbiome hacking” technique, noting that some practitioners simply blend donor stool and administer it as an enema at home.  
- An upcoming FDA hearing on fecal transplants was mentioned, with one participant saying a friend involved in the process expects it to be “a hoot.”  
- ParahSailin criticized popular “microbiome hacking” claims as statistically insignificant, while others defended stool transfer as a real medical intervention for obesity and allergies.  
- A full XML dump of the P2P Foundation wiki (~23 000 pages) was shared at http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/p2pfoundation/xmldump/ to preserve content that lacks reliable backups.  
- Participants debated the poor quality of many P2P and OSE wiki articles—short link-only stubs versus massive copy-pasted blog posts—and attributed the problem to Michel Bauwens’ habit of turning e-mails directly into wiki pages.  
- Tools for converting MediaWiki content to Git-backed ikiwiki were discussed, including media2iki and the need to handle large XML exports in chunks to avoid server overload.  
- Links to background reading on fecal transplants (Chris Kresser’s overview) and epigenetic CNS repair papers (Nature Reviews Genetics and GEN News) were circulated.  
- The channel joked about the irony of hosting a “peer-to-peer” knowledge commons on centralized MediaWiki and considered forking it to a distributed Git-based system.