Wikipedia:GLAM/Montana History

Montana History Edit-A-Thon #2

 * 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
Articles created:
 * Sarah Bickford
 * Alberta Bair Theater

Articles improved:
 * Charles M. Bair
 * B. M. Bower
 * Holter monitor
 * Fur trade in Montana

Montana History Edit-A-Thon #1

 * 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
Four new articles were created:
 * Dolly Akers
 * Helen P. Clarke
 * Rose Hum Lee
 * Beth Baker

Additional articles that were part of the editathon included: and more!
 * Ella J. Knowles Haskell
 * Mary Fields

Articles to work on
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)
 * Manual of Style/Biographies
 * Is my topic notable enough for an article? For general guidelines, see:
 * Notability (people)
 * Politicians and Judges
 * Academics
 * Notability (sports)
 * 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

 * Alberta Bair
 * Ellenore Bridenstine
 * Maggie Smith Hathaway/Margaret S. Hathaway
 * Mansfield Library collection
 * Helen Addison Howard
 * Emma Ingalls/Emma J. Ingalls
 * Catherine C. McCarty
 * Vivian Paladin
 * Doris Swords Poppler/Doris Poppler
 * source
 * Nancy Russell/Charles Marion Russell
 * May Trumper
 * Belle Fligelman Winestine
 * Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail


 * Biographies of living people:
 * Andrea Bennett


 * Places/Organizations
 * Holter Museum of Art
 * Young Women's Christian Association (Independent) -Helena building
 * Mountain View School (Montana) - institution

Articles for expansion/improvement

 * 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
 * Source
 * 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
 * Norma Ashby
 * Patricia O'Brien Cotter
 * Karla M. Gray
 * Laurie McKinnon
 * Susan P. Watters


 * Places
 * Anna Scherlie Homestead Shack
 * Source material:

Articles for expansion
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
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:
 * List of Justices of the Montana Supreme Court
 * List of Governors of Montana
 * Category:Lists of Montana politicians
 * Category:Lists of people from Montana

Library of Congress

 * 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

 * Female Photographers on the Frontier: Montana's Lady Photographic Artists, 1866-1900

Wikipedia editing
Printable cheat sheets:
 * Guide to Editing Wikipedia
 * 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

Philosophy & Policies Account creation 
 * Five Pillars of Wikipedia philosophical guidelines and best practices for editing
 * Core content policies
 * Check if a user name is taken
 * Username policy about real names

Markup help
 * Wikipedia markup cheatsheet
 * Wikipedia Cheat Sheet (Bookshelf)

General tutorials & guides
 * Training for Students
 * Beginners' Guide to Wikipedia

Editing and creating pages 
 * How to edit a page
 * Your First Article
 * Article Wizard
 * Article development
 * Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger applicable to any biography

Templates and Styles
 * Manual of Style
 * Citation templates
 * Infobox templates
 * Library Resource box


 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training/For_educators/Resources

Montana wikipedia resources

 * WikiProject Montana