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Yiddish-language edition of Misplaced Pages

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The Yiddish Misplaced Pages (Yiddish: יידיש-וויקיפעדיע) is the Yiddish-language version of Misplaced Pages. It was founded on 3 March 2004, and the first article was written on 28 November of that year.

Current status

The Yiddish Misplaced Pages has 15,499 articles as of January 2025. There are 54,849 registered users (including bots); 51 are active, including 3 administrators.

In accordance with the norms for the Yiddish language, it is written exclusively in Hebrew script with different Yiddish orthography including YIVO, Hasidic Yiddish and Daytshmerish.

In 2007, conflict among editors on the site, especially between editors who were mostly active on the Hebrew Misplaced Pages site, led to the proposed closure of the Yiddish Misplaced Pages. While the closure did not take place, continuing conflict between editors continue due to opposing interests of group members regarding shared and interrelated doctrines about Jewishness.

Milestones

The Yiddish Misplaced Pages reached 6,000 articles on 8 March 2009. The 6,000th article is יהושע העשיל תאומים-פרענקל, a rabbi. The 7,000th article is חנינא סגן הכהנים, an article about the Hanina Segan ha-Kohanim created on 24 December 2009.

Point of view

Combined, the different Hasidic groups form the largest Yiddish-speaking community in the world today. Therefore, many new articles are about Hasidic rabbis.

Other examples of the Yiddish Misplaced Pages's extensive coverage on Orthodox Judaism in general, and Hasidic Judaism in particular, are:

  • the Yiddish Misplaced Pages's Main Page's covers Jewish topics extensively. Generally, at the top of the Main Page of any language Misplaced Pages is a list of links to portals or categories of general topics, for examples the arts, history, mathematics, and science. However, on the Yiddish Misplaced Pages Main Page, in addition to the usual links, there are links to the all-Jewish categories of Judaism, Hasidism, Sifrei Kodesh (sacred books of Jewish religious literature), the Holocaust, and rabbis.
  • the Yiddish Misplaced Pages's page about user pages lists the rules a user must follow when making his user page. As a suggestion, the article says a user should not write untrue things about themselves on their user page, for example "if you live in Williamsburg, it's not proper to write that you live in Lakewood." The two places mentioned in the example, Williamsburg and Lakewood, are home to very large and influential Orthodox Jewish communities.
  • on the Yiddish page for What Misplaced Pages is not, one of the sections is named "Misplaced Pages is not a mikveh". The name is based on the idea that Jews who find themselves together in the mikveh (Jewish ritual bath) share with each other the latest news and rumors. This section tries to convey that short news tidbits and rumors should not be written on Misplaced Pages, especially when unsourced.
  • on the Yiddish language Misplaced Pages article about the Yiddish Misplaced Pages, five reasons are listed as to the purpose of the Yiddish Misplaced Pages in addition to simply being a 💕, with four of them being Judaism-related, and more specifically, related to the Haredi Jewish community (a subgroup of Orthodox Judaism which includes Hasidic Judaism). For example, about one of the reasons − to create Torah study, the following is written: "One writes a sevara (Torah thought), reason, law, custom, or understanding , another jumps up and questions it on the talk page, and changes it according to his conclusion, and the third makes a compromise. And so on until...a complete Torah is learned up."
Additional Judaism-related goals of the Yiddish Misplaced Pages are to spread Judaism and to create a virtual Jewish community online.

Statistics

Yiddish Misplaced Pages statistics
Number of user accounts Number of articles Number of files Number of active users Number of administrators
54849 15499 985 51 3

References

  1. ^ Soldat-Jaffe, Tatjana (16 November 2017). "6. Yiddish Misplaced Pages: History Revisited". In Rosowsky, Andrey (ed.). Faith and Language Practices in Digital Spaces. Multilingual Matters. pp. 113–132. doi:10.21832/9781783099283-010. ISBN 978-1-78309-928-3. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
  2. "Yiddish Misplaced Pages now active". wikipedia.international mailinglist. 16 March 2004. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
  3. yi:װיקיפּעדיע:יידיש, יודיש, אדער אידיש
  4. yi:באַזונדער:נייע בלעטער
  5. yi:הויפט זייט
  6. yi:װיקיפּעדיע:באניצער בלאט
  7. Yang, Stephen (7 September 2019). "Orthodox Jews 'photographed like animals' by tour groups". Crowds of tourists flock to Orthodox Jewish areas of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to take photos of locals. New York Post. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  8. yi:װיקיפּעדיע:וואס וויקיפעדיע איז נישט
  9. yi:יידיש-וויקיפעדיע

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