• 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.

Articles created:

• Sarah Bickford
• Alberta Bair Theater

Articles improved:

• Charles M. Bair
• B. M. Bower
• Holter monitor
• Fur trade in Montana

• 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)

Four new articles were created:

• Dolly Akers
• Helen P. Clarke
• Rose Hum Lee
• Beth Baker

Additional articles that were part of the editathon included:

• Ella J. Knowles Haskell
• Mary Fields

and more!

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)
  • Politicians and Judges
  • Academics
  • Wikipedia:Notability (sports)
• New online biography prep tool: http://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/prepbio.php

Example of a Montana woman's biography

Dorothy Baker (madam)

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

These lists contain many people who have no article written about them, or only a stub-class article of low quality

• List of Justices of the Montana Supreme Court
• List of Governors of Montana

And yet more lists here:

• Category:Lists of Montana politicians
• Category:Lists of people from Montana

• Women's History Matters
  • Women's History Matters Research home page
  • Women’s History Articles from Montana The Magazine of Western History
• Great Falls Tribune "125 newsmakers" series:
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
  • Part 4
  • Part 5
  • Part 6
• 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.

• 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.

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

• Guide to Editing Wikipedia

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

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

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Montana