Hi All,
The Center for Jewish History is hosting their first Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon on Sunday May 4th from 12pm-5pm (5 hours) at their location on 16th Street in Manhattan near Union Square. The theme of the Edit-a-Thon is "Women in Jewish History." Some of the articles to edit include: Celia Adlerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia_Adler, Jennie Loitman Barron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennie_Loitman_Barron, and Lotte Jacobi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotte_Jacobi.
If you plan on attending, please bring a laptop as they will not have any on hand. Light refreshments will be provided as well as access to their library and other great resources and staff knowledge! Upon entrance of the building, you will be directed to the room where the Edit-a-Thon is held at the front desk.
Please see the event page for more details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/WomeninJewishHistory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/WomeninJewishHistory
Hope to see you there!
Dorothy Howard Metropolitan New York Library Councilhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Metropolitan_New_York_Library_Council
[image: Inline image 1] Celia Adler Image. CC0 license.
Nice!
Mind if I cross post this to some of the Jewish specific lists and groups?
Sent from my Droid 4 Elias Friedman A.S., CCEMT-P אליהו מתתיהו בן צבי elipongo@gmail.com "יְהִי אוֹר" On Apr 23, 2014 4:35 PM, "Dorothy Howard" dhoward@metro.org wrote:
Hi All,
The Center for Jewish History is hosting their first Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon on Sunday May 4th from 12pm-5pm (5 hours) at their location on 16th Street in Manhattan near Union Square. The theme of the Edit-a-Thon is “Women in Jewish History.” Some of the articles to edit include: Celia Adler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia_Adler, Jennie Loitman Barron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennie_Loitman_Barron, and Lotte Jacobi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotte_Jacobi.
If you plan on attending, please bring a laptop as they will not have any on hand. Light refreshments will be provided as well as access to their library and other great resources and staff knowledge! Upon entrance of the building, you will be directed to the room where the Edit-a-Thon is held at the front desk.
Please see the event page for more details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/WomeninJewishHistory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/WomeninJewishHistory
Hope to see you there!
Dorothy Howard Metropolitan New York Library Councilhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Metropolitan_New_York_Library_Council
[image: Inline image 1] Celia Adler Image. CC0 license.
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