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Event details
- Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2013
- Time: 9 am - 12 pm CST
- Location: Faculty Technology Commons Lab on the 3rd floor of the Howard Tilton Library, Tulane University
- Event: A wikithon event to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the history of women in higher education.
- Facebook Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/507985489240728/
Celebrate Women's History Month by contributing to Wikipedia articles relating women. This event will take place in conjunction with Fatima Jinnah Women University as part of the WikiWomen's History Month. You will learn how to contribute to Wikipedia and edit articles relating to the topic of women and higher education.
What to bring
- Yourself
- (Optional) Topic ideas or articles you might want to work on
- (Optional) Any relevant reference materials or digital photos to incorporate into Wikipedia
Topic Suggestions
- Bettie Runnels, first woman to be admitted to Tulane[1]
- Caroline E. Merrick, Louisiana suffragist[2]
- Justine Fervin Couvent, ex-slave benefactress of education and of orphans[3]
- Sarah Morgan Dawson, 19th century writer[4]
- Elizabeth D. A. Magnus Cohen, Louisiana's first woman physician[5]
- Frances Joseph-Gaudet, prison reform worker and educator[6]
- Alice Almira Boley, African-American academic and instructor at Southern College[7]
- Eileen R. Armstrong
- Wilma Subra, environmental scientist and activist [8]
- Women Judges
- Deidre Dumas Labat, first African American female enrolled at Newcomb College
- Add topics here!
- Stubs
- Fazila_Aliani
- Ghulam Bibi Bharwana
- This stub isn't necessarily higher education related, it's just really bad... : Shehla_Raza
- Marvi_Mazhar
- This one is also in dire need of help: Maki_Kureishi
- Shaila_Abdullah
- Talat_Farooq
- Sadia_Qureshi
- Reba_Shahid
- Find more ideas
- Lots of women on this list: Louisiana Center for Women and Government Hall of Fame
- Some LA names in this article are also education/writing related: [9]
- More names of LA women here: [10]
- Website with LA history, not all is on Wikipedia already: [11]
- Minimal information, but some names of Pakistani women: [12]
- List of "100 Most Important Women in Pakistan": [13]
- More Pakistani women, including one who runs a school: [14]
Attendees Sign-in
Jscheuer (talk) 15:10, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
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Cgonzal7 (talk) 15:38, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
LeahJaques (talk) 12:47, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
Jmonterr13 (talk) 6:39, 20 March 2013 (UTC)