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Women in Jewish History 2016 Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

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…

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Activists and Archivists on Wikipedia: Reflections on the Soviet Jewry Edit-a-thon

By Leanora Lange On a sunny Sunday in late fall, a quiet, cheerful, powerful event happened in one of the meeting rooms of the Center for Jewish History. A group of activists, archivists, and Wikipedians gathered around a large table, huddled over laptops, and improved coverage of the Soviet Jewry movement on the most widely accessed information resource in use today, Wikipedia. The Soviet…

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