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[edit]Montana History Edit-A-Thon #2
[edit]- Date: Monday, February 1, 2016. 8:30am - 12:30pm.
- Venue: Montana Historical Society Research Center, 225 North Roberts, Helena, MT
- Theme: Montana biography, with a focus on Montana's historical women
- Participants: The event is open to Montana Historical Society staff, volunteers, and staff of the Montana State Law Library.
- If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia please become acquainted with this tutorial module which will help explain many things.
- See Articles to work on, below for more tips and article ideas. (Titles in red have not yet been created, those in blue have been, but need improvement
- We'll also have experienced Wikipedians on site to help as well.
- We've also got a bunch of links below in our resource section, so please explore.
- What to Bring: The room is equipped with six PC desktops and we may have a few laptops available for use but we encourage participants to bring their own laptop if possible. Wifi is available for participants.
Facilitators: User:KingJeff1970, User:MontOther
Participants:
- Add your username below. If you haven't yet created an account, you can create one at the Edit-A-Thon, though it's a good idea to try setting one up a few days prior to the event; ask one of the facilitators for help if you need it.
Outcomes
[edit]Articles created:
Articles improved:
Montana History Edit-A-Thon #1
[edit]- Date: Monday, August 31, 2015. 8:30am - 12:30pm.
- Venue: Montana Historical Society Research Center, 225 North Roberts, Helena, MT
- Theme: Montana Women's History
- Participants: The event is open to Montana Historical Society staff and invited staff of the Montana State Law Library.
- If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia don't be shy! You can play around with this tutorial module which will help explain a lot of things and we'll have experienced Wikipedians on site to help as well.
- We've also got a bunch of links below in our resource section
- What to Bring: The room is equipped with six PC desktops and we may have a few laptops available for use but we encourage participants to bring their own laptop if possible. Wifi will be available for participants.
Facilitators: User:KingJeff1970, User:MontOther
Participants:
- User:RealMontanaMaven (talk)
- User:Researchlady17 (talk)
- User:VanillaBean28 (talk)
- User:Tn2mt (talk)
- ResearchGent17 (talk)
Outcomes
[edit]Four new articles were created:
Additional articles that were part of the editathon included:
and more!
Articles to work on
[edit]For specific guidelines on article writing basics and biography help, see:
- Help:Editing: The basics
- MontOther's practice page: User:MontOther/Practice (MontOther's version of the basics)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biographies
- Is my topic notable enough for an article? For general guidelines, see:
- Wikipedia:Notability (people)
- New online biography prep tool: http://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/prepbio.php
- Example of a Montana woman's biography
- Dorothy Baker (madam)
Articles for creation
[edit]- Alberta Bair
- Ellenore Bridenstine
- Maggie Smith Hathaway/Margaret S. Hathaway
- Helen Addison Howard
- Emma Ingalls/Emma J. Ingalls
- Catherine C. McCarty
- Vivian Paladin
- Doris Swords Poppler/Doris Poppler
- Nancy Russell/Charles Marion Russell
- May Trumper
- Belle Fligelman Winestine
- Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail
- Biographies of living people
- Places/Organizations
- Holter Museum of Art
- Young Women's Christian Association (Independent) -Helena building
- Mountain View School (Montana) - institution
Articles for expansion/improvement
[edit]- Josephine Airey, "Chicago Joe"
- Dolly Akers
- Diane Barz
- Evelyn Cameron
- Helen P. Clarke
- Elouise P. Cobell
- Fanny Cory
- Dorothy Eck
- Mary Fields
- Ella J. Knowles Haskell
- Rose Hum Lee
- Harriet Miller (politician)
- Clara Nomee
- Alice Greenough Orr
- Pretty Nose
- Pretty Shield
- Emily E. Sloan
- Fannie Sperry Steele
- Buffalo Calf Road Woman
- The Other Magpie
- One Who Walks with the Stars
- Moving Robe Woman
- Minnie Hollow Wood
- Biographies of living people
- Places
- Anna Scherlie Homestead Shack
- Source material: [1]
Articles for expansion
[edit]Participants may have an interest in these articles
- Joseph Alfred Slade/Virginia Slade
- Judith Blegen (born in Montana)
- Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth
- Add section on women to Fur trade in Montana
Lists with more redlinks
[edit]These lists contain many people who have no article written about them, or only a stub-class article of low quality
And yet more lists here:
Sources
[edit]- Women's History Matters
- Great Falls Tribune "125 newsmakers" series:
- Montana Biographies
- Many links in this article to information on women in Montana History
- Shirley, Gayle C. (2011) More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Montana Women, 2nd Ed. Globe Pequot Press: Guilford, Conn. p.5 ISBN 978-0-7627-6692-5
- Followup to event: Beyond schoolmarms and madams: Montana women's stories / edited by Martha Kohl. Scheduled to be published towards the end of 2015, by Montana Historical Society Press.
Library of Congress
[edit]- More than petticoats. Remarkable Montana women / Gayle C. Shirley.
- Montana women educators : a collection of biographical articles / by Montana members of Delta Kappa Gamma Society International.
- Montana women homesteaders : a field of one's own / edited by Sarah Carter.
- Wanton West : madams, money, murder, and the wild women of Montana's frontier / Lael Morgan.
- Montana memories : the life of Emma Magee in the Rocky Mountain west, 1866-1950 / by Ida S. Patterson.
Other
[edit]Wikipedia editing
[edit]Printable cheat sheets:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Welcome2WP_English_Flap_081810.pdf
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WikipediaReferencing.pdf
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Citing_your_sources.pdf
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Avoiding_plagiarism.pdf
- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Classroom_handout_-_moving_out_of_your_sandbox.pdf
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- Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger applicable to any biography
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