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Montana History Edit-A-Thon #2

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  • 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

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Articles created:

Articles improved:

Montana History Edit-A-Thon #1

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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

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Four new articles were created:

Additional articles that were part of the editathon included:

and more!

Articles to work on

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For specific guidelines on article writing basics and biography help, see:

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

Articles for creation

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Biographies of living people
Places/Organizations

Articles for expansion/improvement

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Biographies of living people
Places

Articles for expansion

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Participants may have an interest in these articles

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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

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  • 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

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Other

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Wikipedia editing

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Printable cheat sheets:

Philosophy & Policies

Account creation

Markup help

General tutorials & guides

Editing and creating pages

Templates and Styles

Montana wikipedia resources

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