Montana Historical Society

Details of Event 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

 
Introducing the MHS Editathon!
 
And away we go!
  • 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:

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:

Example of a Montana woman's biography
Dorothy Baker (madam)

Articles for creation edit

Articles for expansion/improvement edit

Articles for expansion edit

Participants may have an interest in these articles

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


  • 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

Library of Congress edit

Other edit

Wikipedia editing edit

Printable cheat sheets:

Montana wikipedia resources edit