Soviet Jewry Edit-a-thon

When and Where
Time	Sunday, November 22, 2015 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Address	Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues)
City, State	New York City, New York 10011

The Center for Jewish History and the American Jewish Historical Society hosted an edit-a-thon centered on the American Soviet Jewry movement. The event was open to everyone, no previous Wikipedia editing experience necessary!

Resources included materials from the Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement at the American Jewish Historical Society that were recently digitized 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.

• Date: Sunday, November 22, 2015
• Time: 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
• Location: Center for Jewish History, 15 W. 16th Street, New York, NY 10011 40°44′16.9″N 73°59′37.7″W / 40.738028°N 73.993806°W / 40.738028; -73.993806
• Subway:
  • ​ ​ to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 7th Avenue)
  • ​ to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 6th Avenue)
  • to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 6th Avenue)
  • ​ ​ to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street - Union Square)
  • ​ ​ ​ to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street - Union Square)
  • ​ ​ to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 8th Avenue)
• Bus: M1, M2, M3, M14A, M14D, X1, X7, X9, X10, X12, X17, X27, X28 buses
• Hashtag: #TBD
• Training: Training sessions on editing Wikipedia will be held at 11:15 am and 1:00 pm. Experienced Wikipedians will be on-hand to assist throughout the day.

Before the event

1. Please create a Wikipedia account
2. RSVP via the Center for Jewish History here
3. If you already have a Wikipedia account, please add your username below as well.

During the event

• Please bring a laptop with you!
• Light refreshments will be provided.
• Make edits! Ask questions! Be bold!

Please add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below. Please RSVP directly to the Center for Jewish History at the link above if you plan on attending in person. The Meetup link is here.

Likely attendees

1. Lange.lea ( talk) 21:23, 22 October 2015 (UTC) reply
2. RachelCMiller ( talk) 22 October 2015
3. Pharos ( talk) 01:59, 23 October 2015 (
4. Lutzv ( talk) 13:35, 23 October 2015 (UTC) reply
5. kosboot ( talk) 15:16, 1 November 2015 (UTC) reply
6. AndreyPFilimonov ( talk) 11:37, 5 November 2015 (UTC) reply
7. Rh236 ( talk)
8. Nwhysel ( talk) 17:23, 19 November 2015 (UTC) reply
9. Jwhysel ( talk) 17:23, 19 November 2015 (UTC) reply
10. Sarah.r.glover ( talk) 08:30, 20 November 2015 (UTC) reply
11. Mozucat ( talk) 22:00, 20 November 2015 (UTC) reply
12. Lilerner3215 ( talk) 16:30, 22 November 2015 (UTC) reply
13. Jim.henderson ( talk) 16:50, 22 November 2015 (UTC) will leave early reply
14. Greenhousenicole ( talk)
15. Glennrik ( talk)

Tentative

1. Kschlot1 ( talk) 12:18, 23 October 2015 (UTC) reply
2. Rrrowmyboat ( talk) 23 October 2015

Regrets

1. czar 06:18, 19 November 2015 (UTC) reply
2. I would very much have liked to participate. Unfortunately, I have an unbreakable prior commitment. Enjoy! -- Y  not? 20:37, 19 November 2015 (UTC) reply
3. DGG unfortunately not practical. ( talk ) 23:38, 7 November 2015 (UTC) reply

Remote participants

1. Glowinska ( talk) 18:54, 13 November 2015 (UTC) reply
2. BrillLyle ( talk)

Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon.

People

alphabetical by last name

Subjects

• Pamela Cohen -- see entry in Jewish Women’s Archive and Stuart Altschuler, From Exodus to Freedom (2005), esp. p. 49-54 (term in office, p. 50)
• Sovetish Heymland -- to translate from Russian Wikipedia
• Carol Kekst -- see finding aid working on this now Kschlot1 ( talk) 17:46, 22 November 2015 (UTC) -- UPDATE I tried, but I don't have enough sources. reply
• Murray Levine -- see finding aid
• Morey Schapira working on this Kschlot1 ( talk) 18:17, 22 November 2015 (UTC) reply
• Avital Sharansky 19:08, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
• South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry citing Adele and Joel Sandberg. See finding aid for their papers held at AJHS
• Boris Tsitlionok

New articles created

Alphabetical

1. ru:Джейкоб (Яков) Бирнбаум ( Jacob Birnbaum page in Russian) -- AndreyPFilimonov ( talk)
2. Pamela Cohen -- Greenhousenicole ( talk)
3. Morey Schapira -- Kschlot1 ( talk)
4. Avital Sharansky -- Lange.lea ( talk)
5. Sovetish Heymland -- Rh236 ( talk)

Articles improved

alphabetical by first letter

1. 1970s Soviet Union aliyah references improved -- Lange.lea ( talk)
2. American Jewish Historical Society -- Rh236 ( talk), BrillLyle ( talk)
3. Center for Jewish History -- BrillLyle ( talk)
4. Donna Arzt -- Lilerner3215 ( talk)
5. Dymshits–Kuznetsov hijacking affair -- Lutzv ( talk)
6. Jackson–Vanik amendment -- Kschlot1 ( talk)
7. Jacob Birnbaum -- Kosboot ( talk)
8. Jewish Defense League -- Kschlot1 ( talk)
9. List of protest marches on Washington, D.C. -- added link and other content -- Greenhousenicole ( talk) and RachelCMiller ( talk)
10. Martin Gilbert -- added content and citations -- RachelCMiller ( talk)
11. Micah Naftalin -- added external link -- Greenhousenicole ( talk)
12. Morey Schapira -- cleaned up cites, added info -- BrillLyle ( talk)
13. National Coalition Supporting Soviet Jewry -- updated content -- Glennrik ( talk)
14. Night of the Murdered Poets -- Kschlot1 ( talk)
15. Si Frumkin -- Sarah.r.glover ( talk)
16. Soviet Jewry Movement -- moved page to better title, added content -- Glennrik ( talk), added content Lilerner3215 ( talk)
17. John Steinbruck -- added death date -- Greenhousenicole ( talk)
18. Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry -- Glennrik ( talk)
19. Union of Councils for Soviet Jews -- added content -- Lilerner3215 ( talk), Mozucat ( talk)
20. Freedom Sunday for Soviet Jews -- added content and links -- RachelCMiller ( talk)

Images added to Wikimedia Commons

1. File:AJHS logo horizontal.png -- BrillLyle ( talk)
2. File:AJHS seal.jpg -- BrillLyle ( talk)
3. File:AJHS logo stacked.jpg -- BrillLyle ( talk)

For ideas for further articles to edit as well as possible categories to add to articles above, see:

WikiProjects

• WikiProject Jewish history
• WikiProject Judaism
• WikiProject Soviet Union

Categories

• Category:Antisemitism in the Soviet Union
• Category:Jewish Russian and Soviet history
• Category:Jews and Judaism in the Soviet Union
• Category:Refuseniks
• Category:Soviet Jews

• Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement at the American Jewish Historical Society. See in particular:
  • Archival Collections
  • Digital Collections - these are artificial collections that pull from many parts of the larger Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement. See the above archival collections link for guides to the papers of particular individuals or organizations.
  • Digital Collections at the Center for Jewish History - this searches across all digitized items held by all of the Center's partner organizations. Searching here will pull from all items digitized under the recent NHPRC grant for Soviet Jewry materials.
• YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
• Encyclopedia Judaica The electronic version of the 2nd edition (2007) is available onsite at the Center for Jewish History here: Encyclopedia Judaica online
• American Jewish Archives Journal, published by the AJA, is freely available and keyword searchable.
• Ancestry.com (onsite access only)
• Newspapers:
  • American Jewish Newspapers (onsite access only)
  • New York Times 1851-2012 (onsite access only)
  • Washington Post 1877 - 1999 (onsite access only)
  • Brooklyn Daily Eagle (open access via Brooklyn Public Library)
• America History and Life (EBSCO database, onsite access only)
• JSTOR (onsite access only)
• Project Muse (onsite access only)
• Proquest Obituaries (onsite access only)

• Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
• Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
• Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
• Tutorial
• How to Edit a Page
• Wiki Markup Quick Reference (PDF version of printed handout)
• Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
• Article Development
• Your First Article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
• Manual of Style
• Citation templates
• Infobox templates
• Bookshelf (additional "getting started" resources)
• Art+Feminism – Video training
• Art+Feminism – Training Lesson Plan
• WikiD Guides to Wikipedia Editing

Tools and templates

• Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
• Infobox template - person
• Biographies of living persons
• Writing an article
• About the Sandbox
• Determining Notability of Creative Professionals
• Conflict of Interest in Wikipedia Editing
• Verifying Reliable Sources

• N.B. There is an IRC channel if online participants need help:

Wikipedia:IRC/wikipedia-en-help

• #wikipedia-en-help ^connect

Templates

• Template:American Jewish Historical Society - Finding Aid

{{Template:American Jewish Historical Society - Finding Aid|pID|link label}}

An example:

{{Template:American Jewish Historical Society - Finding Aid|798129|Houston Action for Soviet Jewry Records}}

displays

Houston Action for Soviet Jewry Records at the American Jewish Historical Society

• Template:CJHr

{{CJHr|id|link label|partner}}

An example:

{{CJHr|1995111|National Eternal Light Vigil for Soviet Jewry|American Jewish Historical Society}}

displays

National Eternal Light Vigil for Soviet Jewry held by the American Jewish Historical Society at the Center for Jewish History

• Center for Jewish History
• Wikipedia Meetup - NYC (main events page)
• Wikimedia New York City