Women in Jewish History 2016 Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Presented by the Center for Jewish History in partnership with the Jewish Women’s Archive
Join us to improve
Wikipedia’s coverage of Jewish women and the organizations they spearheaded. Editing will take place throughout the afternoon. Attendees may come and go as they wish.
New editors welcome!
Please bring a laptop with you!
Light refreshments provided.
Sunday, June 5th, 2016 12:00-5:00 pm
Training for new editors 12:30 pm
Tour of the Center 2:00 pm
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
Join the virtual edit-a-thon June 1-15!
Why edit Wikipedia?
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia written and edited by volunteers. It attempts to make as much information openly accessible to as many people as possible. As the sixth most accessed website in the world, it is an important information resource. Like any encyclopedia, it is imperfect, and it needs to be constantly expanded and updated. To help make Wikipedia better, those with expertise and perspectives missing in Wikipedia are encouraged to become editors. New tools make editing Wikipedia easier and very similar to using a word processing program.
Why focus on Jewish women?
Expanding coverage of Jewish women on Wikipedia makes these women and their work discoverable and addresses the gender bias on Wikipedia in a positive way. In addition, by focusing on Jewish women we strive to correct imbalances that have historically minimized women’s narratives and influence. This event continues our series of Wikipedia edit-athons centered on Jewish women held at the Center. For more on previous events, visit the Center’s GLAM Wiki page. For more on this event, see the Wiki meetup page.
Image credits, from top left clockwise: Alice Solomon, from the National Library of Israel, Schwadron Collection; Gertrude “Tiby” Eisen swings a baseball bat, from the American Jewish Historical Society Photography Collection; Photograph of Celia Adler, from Box 4, Folder 3 of the Adler Family Papers (P-890) at the American Jewish Historical Society; Emma Lazarus, from the New York Historical Society; Portrait of Rahel Varnhagen von Ense, from the Leo Baeck Institute Art Collection (78.542a); Molly Picon as Shmendrik, from the Molly Picon Papers (P-38) at the American Jewish Historical Society; and Photograph of Justine Wise Polier from the Shad Polier Papers (P-572) at the American Jewish Historical Society.