Wikipedia:GLAM/CJH/Events

Wiki-Fridays
Wiki-Fridays are regular mini edit-a-thons that offer staff the opportunity to casually edit together over lunch about once a month.

January 2018 (Wiki-Tuesday dedicated to #1lib1ref work)
Outcomes
 * 4 participants
 * 1) Added finding aid link and citations to Georg Simmel
 * 2) Added finding aid link to Freedom Sunday for Soviet Jews
 * 3) Added information and finding aid link to Dinah Shtettin
 * 4) Added information, a finding aid link and external links to Ita Aber
 * 5) Added finding aid link to Malcolm Hoenlein
 * 6) Corrected information and added citation to Seymour P. Lachman
 * 7) Started Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry
 * 8) Added external links to HIAS

March 2017
Outcomes
 * 6 participants
 * 1) started draft for Ann S. Petluckstarted
 * 2) added images and info for Morey Schapira
 * 3) started Rose G. Jacobs
 * 4) started Alice Seligsberg
 * 5) started Bettina Warburg
 * 6) added information on Jewish National Fund (JNF) to Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America

November 2016
Outcomes
 * 5 participants
 * 1) started draft of Baron de Hirsch Fund
 * 2) edited Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America
 * 3) added links from the QC list
 * 4) started draft of Zeitgeist (Milwaukee newspaper)
 * 5) added info box for Celia Dropkin
 * 6) started Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews

October 2016
Outcomes
 * 7 participants
 * 1) Link to Rachel Wischnitzer Collection added to Mark Wischnitzer's German page
 * 2) Updated task list for CJH GLAM Wiki
 * 3) Added in-line citation for Camp Massad (Poconos)
 * 4) Started Jüdische Presse in sandbox
 * 5) Updated Jonas Phillips Levy
 * 6) Siegfried Bernfeld - added references, content, and link to YIVO papers
 * 7) Started Esther Levy in sandbox
 * 8) Started Charlotte Jacobson
 * 9) Started David Waksberg

September 2016
Outcomes
 * 10 participants, including two new editors!
 * 1) Added two images to Wikimedia Commons
 * 2) Added image to Ansche Chesed
 * 3) Started Abraham Shoenfeld
 * 4) Edited Ina Golub
 * 5) Added internal links to Abraham Sutzkever
 * 6) Added finding aid link to Abraham Ellstein
 * 7) Researched images for other articles
 * 8) Added info box for Elias Tcherikower
 * 9) Added link to USHMM collection finding aid to Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter
 * 10) Created Jerry Goodman (activist)

August 2016
Outcomes
 * 4 participants
 * 1) Created Moshe Decter
 * 2) Completed Grete Kellenberger-Gujer
 * 3) Added above page to Women in Red Year of Science outcomes
 * 4) Edits on Phyllis Chesler
 * 5) Added finding aid link to the Etting Family Collection to the History of the Jews in Baltimore
 * 6) Added finding aid link to Robert Shasha Collection to the History of the Jews in Iraq
 * 7) Added infobox to Lucien Wolf

July 2016
Outcomes
 * 7 participants
 * 1) Bayard Rustin page—added the Soviet Jewry movement section detailing Rustin's participation in the movement.
 * 2) Started translation of Grete Kellenberger-Gujer
 * 3) Worked on Sylvia Hassenfeld -- completed later in the day!
 * 4) Worked on Alice Lillie Seligsberg
 * 5) Worked on Draft:Denise Tourover Ezekiel -- completed page at a later date Denise Tourover Ezekiel
 * 6) Added external links section to Miriam Freund-Rosenthal
 * 7) Added external links section to Faye Schenk
 * 8) Worked on Miriam Markel-Mosessohn (content and references)

June 2016 (Wiki-Wednesday for Women in Jewish History)
Outcomes
 * 10 participants, including two new editors!
 * 1) Started Rose G. Jacobs
 * 2) Created Rose Halprin
 * 3) Added link to Guide to the (recently digitized) Papers of Judith A. Manelis, ED of Communication Dept of UJA-Federation to UJA-Federation of New York article, with info on the campaign for Soviet Jewry run by Manelis.
 * 4) Created Ofira Henig
 * 5) Started Margarete Susman
 * 6) Started Beatrice Alexander
 * 7) Started Ann S. Petluck
 * 8) Started Alice Lillie Seligsberg
 * 9) Started Sylvia Hassenfeld
 * 10) at least one more article started...

May 2016
Outcomes
 * 9 participants
 * 1) Aliza Greenblatt -- added infobox
 * 2) Max Weinreich -- added infobox
 * 3) Gertrude Weil -- added infobox
 * 4) Helene Weigel -- added infobox
 * 5) Improved Zip Szold
 * 6) Improved David de Sola Pool
 * 7) Started Tamar de Sola Pool
 * 8) Link maintenance for *.cjh.org
 * 9) Created page Mark Wischnitzer
 * 10) Article candidates added to GLAM/Leo Baeck Institute
 * 11) External link added to Hutchinson Internment Camp
 * 12) External link added to Jüdischer Kulturbund
 * 13) Started Grand Street Boys' Association
 * 14) Drafted page for Fradl Shtok

April 2016
Outcomes
 * 10 participants, including two new editors!
 * 1) Rae Landy -- added link to finding aid for RG 2 Hadassah Medical Organization Records where there is additional material on Landy. Added infobox. Glowinska (talk) 17:59, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 2) Added link to AJHS records for Breira (organization). Fixed references, added data to wikidata item Kschlot1 (talk) 17:35, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 3) Added reference to Cecilia Razovsky to German Jewish Children's Aid and link to Razovsky papers at AJHS
 * 4) Added infobox to Abraham Cahan
 * 5) Added external link to archival papers for Tobias Geffen
 * 6) Added internal links for Richard Beer-Hofmann
 * 7) Added internal links for Shtetl
 * 8) Added internal links for Yale University Art Gallery
 * 9) Added info on United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism participation in the Soviet Jewry movement. Added an External Link to a USCJ archival collection finding aid.
 * 10) Pulled together references and content to eventually create a page for Kadia Molodowsky

March 2016
Outcomes
 * 7 participants
 * 1) Alice Davis Menken -- added archives at Wikidata
 * 2) National Council of Jewish Women -- improved external links, added archives at Wikidata
 * 3) Translating German-language Mark Wischnitzer page into English
 * 4) Donna Arzt -- Edited Career field, cited an AJHS collection, added wikipedia link to Union of Council for Soviet Jews article, added External Links to AJHS finding aids.
 * 5) HIAS -- added the section "HIAS archives"
 * 6) Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America -- added internal wikipedia links
 * 7) created Rae Landy - Hadassah pioneer nurse

February 2016

 * 9 participants

Outcomes


 * 1) National Council of Jewish Women -- fixed citation
 * 2) Dolly Haas -- added additional info from NYTimes obit, fixed broken link to LBI finding aid
 * 3) Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America -- added list of presidents
 * 4) John Steinbruck -- added link to AJHS finding aid
 * 5) Ina Golub - Created page Kschlot1 (talk) 19:14, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
 * 6) Aliza Greenblatt -- expanded content and added list of books

Virtual Edit-a-thon: Women in Jewish History
From June 1-15, 2016, we're collaborating with WikiProject Women in Red on a worldwide virtual edit-a-thon on Women in Jewish History! Anyone in the world can edit any article on notable Jewish women and list their work among the outcomes of this virtual event.
 * Event page: Women in Red: Celebrating Women in Jewish History

Women in Jewish History 2016
The Center for Jewish History hosted an edit-a-thon centered on the topic of women in Jewish history on June 5, 2016.

Partners included the Jewish Women's Archive and Lilith magazine. This event is ran concurrently with a virtual edit-a-thon with Women in Red's Women in Jewish History event.

This event is part of the Jewish Women's History Initiative at the Center for Jewish History, which highlights the lives and accomplishments of Jewish women.

Expanding coverage of Jewish women on Wikipedia makes these women and their creations discoverable, addresses the gender bias on Wikipedia in a positive way, and works to correct imbalances archival collecting practice and institutional projects that have historically silenced women's narratives. This edit-a-thon is also a continuation of a series of Wikipedia edit-a-thons centered on Jewish women. More on previous Wikipedia events can be seen at the 2014 Women in Jewish History Edit-a-thon Meetup page

Visit the event meetup page for more details!


 * Meetup page: Women in Jewish History 2016 Edit-a-thon
 * Outcomes: Despite the rain, we had over 22 attendees, including 5 new Wikipedia editors. By the end of the afternoon, 10 new articles or drafts were created and 21 pages were improved.

About the event
The Center for Jewish History and the American Jewish Historical Society hosted an edit-a-thon centered on the American Soviet Jewry movement on Sunday, November 22, 2015 from 11:00 am - 4:00 pm. The event was open to everyone, no previous Wikipedia editing experience necessary.

We encouraged participants to take advantage of resources from the Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement at the American Jewish Historical Society that were digitized in 2014-2015 with the generous support of the National Historical Publications & Records Commission (NHPRC). For more information on the NHPRC-funded digitization project see a recent blog entry on the Center for Jewish History's 16th Street Tumblr.

Event page: Meetup page for Soviet Jewry edit-a-thon

Outcomes
Nineteen editors--including two new editors and two remote editors--participated in the Soviet Jewry Edit-a-thon on Sunday, November 22, 2015. Participants included archivists, Wikipedians, and Soviet Jewry activists. We discovered connections among us, such as one Wikipedian's mother having been an active member of Soviet Jewry movement whom the activists at the edit-a-thon remembered. Several other curious visitors also stopped by to check out the event and chat about Wikipedia and archives. Over the course of the day, five new pages were created, twenty articles were improved, and several images were added to Wikimedia Commons. The new articles included Morey Schapira, Avital Sharansky, Pamela Cohen, and a Russian-language page for Jacob Birnbaum: ru:Джейкоб (Яков) Бирнбаум. See the Outcomes on the event page for a full list.

Many thanks to all attendees for the great work, and to all at the Center and AJHS that helped make this event happen!

Staff edit-a-thon
A Wikipedia edit-a-thon was held on July 22, 2015, open to staff members from the Center and its partners as well as students from the YIVO summer program. Twenty people attended a training session on Wikipedia and basic editing, and several stayed for an open editing session that followed. Although the session was initially focused on expanding coverage related to YIVO's Vilna Collections, the attendees edited pages related to a wide range of topics including the history of European synagogues and notable civic figures and artists. New pages were created for Arno Nadel and Fayez Sayegh, and the page for Maud Nathan was expanded. Links to relevant online content were added to pages such as the Israelitisches Familienblatt, and topics for discussion with the wider Wikipedia community regarding more dramatic edits (such as creating a separate page for the Jüdisches Nachrichtenblatt or changing the title of the Old New Synagogue page) were added on talk pages.
 * After seeing the event via Twitter, a volunteer from Barcelona translated ca:Arno Nadel into Catalan.

Event page
The Center for Jewish History hosted an edit-a-thon on Women in Jewish History on May 4, 2014. Please visit the Meetup page of the edit-a-thon for details:
 * Meetup page for Women in Jewish History Edit-a-thon

Outcomes
The Women in Jewish History Edit-a-thon, held on May 4, 2014, was a great success! The first public edit-a-thon held at the Center, this event was a big step in the efforts of Wikipedians working at the Center for Jewish History and its partners as well as other Wikipedians and GLAM professionals to expand coverage of Jewish women on Wikipedia.

The event was organized as a collaborative effort of several staff members of the Center and its partners, headed by User:Lange.lea. Among the twenty-two attendees were five seasoned Wikipedians, six fairly experienced Wikipedians, and at least seven new editors. One Wikipedian could not come in person and participated virtually. Participants included staff members of the Center and the Leo Baeck Institute as well as members of Wikimedia New York City. Others attendees came out of interest in Wikipedia or the topic of Jewish women. One Wikipedian brought his grandmother, and they worked on articles together.

Before the event, a meetup page was created on Wikpedia (Meetup/NYC/Women_in_Jewish_History), where participants were encouraged to sign up as attendees. An official announcement was also placed on the website of the Center for Jewish History. News about the event was shared via email blasts, listservs, and social media, reaching out to the GLAM community, Wikipedians, and the Center community.

During the event, participants were encouraged to edit pages relating to women in Jewish history. A list of possible articles to edit and articles to create was provided to participants on the event meetup page (Women in Jewish History Edit-a-thon), although participants were also welcome to edit other pages as well. A reference assistant from the Center was also among the attendees and helped others find relevant resources for their work. Participants were asked to bring their own laptops, and wifi was provided. A projector was set up in the room for editing demonstrations. Photographs taken during the event by one participant have been released on Wikimedia Commons: Photographs from the Women in Jewish History edit-a-thon.

By the end of the event, thirteen new pages were created and four further pages were expanded with references, biographical information, and infoboxes, and at least seven new editors joined Wikipedia.