Penny Richards

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This user received the Editor of the Week award.

1st place winner: Women in Asia: WiR Women in Asia contest, 2020

October winner: Women in Asia: WiR Women in Asia contest, 2020

November third place: Women in Asia: WiR Women in Asia contest, 2020

Participant: Women in Red August 2018 achievements

Participant: Women in Red September 2018 achievements

20 new biographies: Women in Red August 2018 achievements

10 new biographies: Women in Red September 2018 achievements

This user participated in the #100wikidays challenge. (contribution)

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WikiProject Women's History.

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WikiProject Disability.

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WikiProject Women artists.

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Los Angeles area task force.

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WikiProject Women scientists.

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This user has a Doctor of Philosophy degree.

This user contributes to Wikipedia Asian Month.

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Penny L. Richards, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Center for Disability Studies at the University at Buffalo (2015–2024); review board, Disability Studies Quarterly (beginning 2015); research scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women (1999–2015); president, Disability History Association (2009–2014); one of the founding editors of H-Education (1999–2017) and H-Disability (2001–2017) on H-Net. My degrees are in Geography (BS, 1988, Penn State, and MS, 1990, Wisconsin) and Social Foundations of Education (PhD, 1996, UNC-Chapel Hill). I also earned a North Carolina teaching certificate, now long expired.

At Wikipedia I was an account coordinator for The Wikipedia Library (WP:TWL), 2015 to 2018, and I take care of the Pinterest boards for WikiProject Women in Red. I've worked on two traditional encyclopedias, most recently on the editorial board of the Encyclopedia of American Disability History (Facts-on-File 2009).

If you invite me to be part of an editathon, I'll probably participate virtually, if the subject is even slightly interesting to me. I can't attend too many in-person events, but (when we're not in the middle of a global pandemic) I do try to show up at editathons and other Wikipedia events in Los Angeles, especially if they're on weekend afternoons, and especially if I can take the Metro.

Thanks to Shane Landrum for the push to get a real account.

Note: I am not the romance writer.

100WikiDays

I completed the #100wikidays challenge between 10 August and 17 November 2016. Click through for the details. It was fun, I'd recommend it, and I'll probably do it again someday.

Alphabet Runs 2017–2023

In May-June 2017, I wrote 26 consecutive articles, one for each letter of the alphabet, all of them biographies of women. Click through here for the list. It was fun!

In November 2017, I did it again. Because it was so much fun the first time.

In January 2018, I did it again, this time as part of an art activity for Fun-a-Day LA.

In March 2018, I did it again. I know I'll run out of notables with Q and X names eventually, but it's fun when I do find them!

In June 2018, I completed my fifth alphabet run. From Anna to Zelma.

In September 2018, I completed my sixth alphabet run. From Alice to Zorka. I might need to be stopped.

In March 2019, I completed my seventh alphabet run. From Alice to Zona Maie. Some emphasis on Francophone women this round.

In December 2019, I completed my eighth alphabet run. From Alma to Zhay, mostly classical musicians.

In September 2020, I completed my ninth alphabet run. From Adele to Zabetta, this time.

In September 2021, I completed my tenth alphabet run. Mostly US writers this time, from Ada to Zula.

In March 2022, I completed my eleventh alphabet run. Mostly US educators this time, Anna to Zephine.

In January 2023, I completed a twelfth alphabet run, this time doing destubs, many but not all of them related to California, from Annette to Zanzye.

Black History Months

In February 2017, I started 28 articles on African American women for Black History Month. Click through here for details. Some of them were translated for Armenian Wikipedia, and most of them had new images, too.

In February 2018, 20 more: Here's that list.

In February 2019, 24 more: Here's that list.

In February 2020, 19 more: Here's that list.

In February 2021, 30 more: Here's that list.

In February 2022, 25 more: Here's that list.

In February 2023, 22 more: Here's that list.

In February 2024, 25 more: Here's that list.

Awaken the Dragon

In Spring 2016, I joined "Awaken the Dragon", an editathon focused on Welsh topics. Click through here for a list of the 36 articles I started during that event (I also destubbed a bunch of others).

Britain and Ireland Destubathon

Table of contributions here.

California Library Hall of Fame, etc.

Planning to work on the list of women inducted into the California Library Hall of Fame by the California Library Association. And here's a list of Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lectureship recipients. And here's the list of inductees into the Adaptive Sports USA Hall of Fame. And here's a list of Olga Jonasson Distinguished Member Award recipients, from the Association of Women Surgeons.

Century Challenge

In 2023, I completed a self-imposed "Century Challenge", by writing a new article for a woman born in each of 100 consecutive years (1849-1948). I filled the last blank in the chart on December 7. I might do this again next year, because it was fun.

Photos

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  Penny Richards & Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight at Wikipedia Day LA 2017
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  Unforgetting LA at MOCA, 2014--that's me in the hat
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  Me in 2018, with my WikiWomeninRed postcards
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  Me with my Wikipedia Asian Month 2017 certificate.
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  Me with Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight and our barnstars, 2019 editathon in Irvine CA.

Taking women's history to the streets, literally

Detail from a chalk art piece I created at Belmont Shore Chalk Art Contest in Long Beach, California, 14 October 2017. I asked passersby, "What's Your Grandmother's Name?" and those names were added to the Alphonse Mucha-inspired piece.

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Useful link: Wikipedia:List of online newspaper archives

Articles I started, 2024 (2401–)

1. Ada Kent
2. Adele Laeis Baldwin
3. Alice Mendham Powell
4. Jessie Gray (educator)
5. Anna Rice Powell
6. Arlein Ford Straw
7. Gabrielle Asset Brieger
8. Shulamith Nardi
9. Harriet Morgan Tyng
10. Clara Lyle Boone
11. Harriet Bolz
12. Constance Friess Holman
13. Edith E. Nicholls
14. May Montoya Jones
15. Berenice Mallory
16. Elga Meta Shearer
17. Elga (given name)
18. Ethel A. Grosscup
19. Frances Fenton Bernard Park
20. Frederica Mead Hiltner
21. Helen Gerrells Stoddard
22. Irma Hannah Gross
23. Isa Maud Ilsen
24. Jennelle V. Moorhead
25. Louise Knappen Woollett
26. Ethna Beulah Winston
27. Eva C. Mitchell
28. Gladys L. Catchings
29. Jane Dabney Shackelford
30. Juanita Ellsworth Miller
31. Lola N. Vassall
32. Marguerite Frierson
33. Alyce Fraser Denny
34. Anita Turpeau Anderson
35. Annie Walker Blackwell
36. Audrey Boswell Jones
37. Bertha LaBranche Johnson
38. Louise Parrott Cochran
39. Wezlynn Tildon
40. Katherine J. Boskins Barr
41. Brenda Swann Holmes
42. Carrie Burton Overton
43. Carrie Still Shepperson
44. Christine Benton Cash
45. Vivienne Newton Gray
46. Harriette Estelle Harris Presley
47. Imagene Stewart
48. Juanita Ollie Diffay Tate
49. Kate Bradley Stovall
50. Lula Warlick
51. Violet Ryley
52. Evelyn K. Wells
53. Stephanie Petryk Potoski
54. Margaret Bradford Boni
55. Margaret M. Bryant
56. Margaretta Salinger
57. Felicia Gressitt Bock
58. Marjorie Edgar
59. Betty Wylder
60. Wylder (name)
61. Georgia Willis Read
62. Elizabeth Pilant
63. Gwladys F. Hughes
64. Lolita Huning Pooler
65. Mela Sedillo
66. Lucile Czarnowski
67. Edith Stratton Kitt
68. Lucile Hoerr Charles
69. May Kennedy McCord
70. Lucy Nulton
71. Lelah Allison
72. Chantal Lemercier-Quelquejay
73. Claudie Marcel-Dubois
74. Lois Blake
75. Elizabeth Burchenal
76. Sirvart Poladian
77. Vige Langevin
78. Emily Prudden
79. Georgia Kober
80. Stella Marek Cushing
81. Izydora Kosach-Borysova
82. Monique Cossard
83. Cossard
84. Esme Lewis
85. Lillian Milgram Schapiro
86. Marian E. Rottman
87. Anna Elizabeth Rude
88. Elizabeth C. Addoms
89. Helen S. Willard
90. Clare S. Spackman
91. Agnes S. Ward
92. Anna Mann Richardson
93. Cecilia H. Hauge
94. Hannah L. Wessling
95. Helen Monsch
96. Mary DeWitt Pettit
97. Minerva Goodman
98. Octavia Hall Smillie
99. Ruth Ellen Grout
100. Breta Luther Griem
101. Griem
102. Ana Dolores Pérez Marchand
103. Claribel Wheeler
104. Evangeline Papageorge
105. Frances Van Gasken
106. Iva Mabelle Miller
107. Jane Bruce Guignard
108. Kate C. Woodhull
109. Dorothea de Schweinitz
110. Louise de Schweinitz Darrow
111. Emma Bullet
112. Ula Sharon
113. Vera Gushee
114. Gushee (name)
115. Edna A. Boorady
116. Elsa Alsen
117. Willa Holt Wakefield
118. Mary J. Hornaday
119. Alvadee Hutton Adams
120. Frances Ullmann DeArmand
121. Harriet Bliss Ford
122. Lillian Barlow
123. Regis Louise Boyle
124. Phyllis Battelle
125. Martha Coman
126. Theodora Bean
127. Lannie Haynes Martin
128. Lyravine Votaw
129. Aurelia Kitzu Arimondi
130. Ruzena Herlinger
131. Gisella Neu
132. Alice Crane Williams
133. Bernice Goodman
134. Mary Frances Platt
135. Wendy Hunt
136. Janice E. Rench
137. Shevy Healey
138. Achebe Betty Powell
139. Josette Mondanaro
140. Casse Culver
141. Ada Turner Kurtz
142. Dana Finnegan
143. Donna Allegra
144. Amy Ashworth
145. Betty Santoro
146. Yetta Dorothea Geffen
147. Anita G. Harris
148. Lavinia Hartwell Egan
149. Ester F. Bentley
150. Alice Keith
151. Cornelia Rider-Possart
152. Vivian Holt
153. Jeanne Barnett
154. Bonnie Tinker
155. Winnifred Wygal
156. Annie Laws
157. Elizabeth Birkmaier
158. Mary Kenny Badami
159. Patricia S. Warrick
160. Carolyn H. Rhodes
161. Dorothy M. Broderick
162. Gail Kimberly
163. Florence McLandburgh
164. Eveleen Laura Mason
165. Margaret M. Barbour Stone
166. Clara H. Holmes
167. Eva L. Ogden
168. Lena Jane Fry
169. Nena Blake
170. Leigh Richmond
171. Kathleen Moore Knight
172. Bertha Crouch Chase
173. Polly Palfrey Woodrow
174. Fanny Curtis
175. Edith Chesebrough Van Antwerp
176. Anna Scholl Espenschade
177. Simone Chapoteau
178. Eleanor Baldwin Cass
179. Anne Harwick
180. Kathryn Agar
181. Maybelle Gilliland
182. Almeda Jones St. Clair
183. Beulah Booker
184. Elizabeth Stine
185. Ora Eddleman Reed
186. Mabel Washbourne Anderson
187. Leta Myers Smart
188. Leta (given name)
189. Z. Susanne Aikman
190. Juanita Helphrey
191. Juanita (given name)
192. Tillie Fay Walker
193. Pearl Warren
194. Katherine Witchie
195. Nina Bertini-Humphreys
196. Nina Campana
197. Etta Pillard
198. Natalie Dagwell
199. Dagwell
200. Darwell
201. Nina Payne
202. Margaret King Robinson
203. Louise Morgan Sill
204. Amy Suehiro
205. Ethel M. Kelley
206. Grace Donworth
207. Marion Wadsworth Cannon
208. Emma Marie Birkmaier
209. Evelyn Alpern
210. Evalyn Thomas
211. Lily Bess Campbell
212. Roberta E. Sebenthall
213. Mary G. Keyes
214. Florence Buck
215. Frances Drewry McMullen
216. Louise Stanley
217. Lee Anna Starr
218. Florence E. Ward
219. Helen D. Pigeon
220. Hortensia Lamar
221. Virginia Pope
222. Kubushiro Ochimi
223. Wanda Wiley
224. Lessie Stringfellow Read
225. Vernon Thomas (artist)
226. Katharine Shepard
227. Adelaide Spohn
228. Doris E. Fales
229. Frances Burr
230. Julia K. Jaffray
231. Emma Dietz Stecher
232. Hubertina D. Hogan
233. Margaret C. Waites
234. Evangeline Rachel Hall
235. Cleo S. Cason
236. Cornelia Gaskins Harcum
237. Kate Elderkin
238. Adèle Coulin Weibel
239. Irene Ringwood Arnold
240. Suzannah Beck Vaillant
241. Dessamae Lorrain
242. Ella Mae Gallavan
243. Helen D. Zepp
244. Jessica M. Young
245. Phyllis Hayford Hutchings
246. Virginia Bever Platt
247. Elsie Wattie Lackey
248. Katharine Clarke-Hafstad
249. Myrtle Fahsbender
250. Electrical Women's Round Table
251. Ettalene M. Grice
252. Lucia C. G. Grieve
253. Fusako Fujima
254. Elsie F. Weil
255. Barnette Miller
256. Masako Miwada
257. Alice Shepard Cary
258. Marian Ury
259. Chieko Utsumi
260. Haru Onuki
261. Kiyo Makino
262. Fanny Hagin Mayer
263. Tazu Sasaki
264. Wilma Cannon Fairbank
265. Kathryn Rucker de Quelin
266. Setsuko Hani
267. Dorothy Robins-Mowry
268. Nannie B. Gaines
269. Sumie Mishima
270. Miriam S. Farley
271. Catherine Porter (writer)
272. Ito Imada
273. Helen C. Gunsaulus
274. Tane Matsukata
275. Alice Boney
276. Yoneko Sakai
277. Toshiko Sekiya
278. Helen Burwell Chapin
279. Naoe Fushimi
280. Seiko Takata
281. Yukiko Tsukuba
282. Elise Grilli
283. Mary Sallom
284. Emma Sarepta Yule
285. Agnes Fenenga
286. Donna Berwick
287. Patt Shea

My DYKs

These are the DYKs from articles I created; I have enjoyed working on several other articles that have become DYK mentions, including most recently Mary Ridge and Wesley Tann.

1. Gertrude Van Wagenen (3/19/13)
2. Nelle Richmond Eberhart (7/30/13)
3. Edith R. Wyle (3/4/14)
4. Pauline Gracia Beery Mack (3/22/14)
5. Chizuko Judy Sugita de Queiroz (5/13/14)
6. Henrietta Rodman (5/27/14)
7. Grace Nicholson (6/27/14)
8. Zarh Pritchard (7/1/14)
9. Theora Hamblett (1/11/15)
10. Sinah Estelle Kelley (3/7/15)
11. Karen Boccalero (3/15/15)
12. Anne O'Hagan Shinn (3/26/15)
13. Laurel van der Wal (4/20/15)
14. Mabel Potter Daggett (10/17/15)
15. Grace Medes (11/20/15)
16. Lucy Meredith Bryce (1/14/16)
17. Clotilde Bressler-Gianoli (5/24/17)
18. Anissa Rawda Najjar (6/30/17)
19. Mira Zore-Armanda (6/2/18)
20. Mary Sophia Hyde Rice (9/10/18)
21. Ursula Newell Emerson (10/7/18)
22. Clarissa Chapman Armstrong (10/12/18)
23. Jennie Jackson (2/20/19)
24. Dorothy Vena Johnson (2/22/19)
25. A. C. Bilbrew (2/24/19)
26. Joyce Sumbi (2/25/19)
27. Lulu Grace Graves (3/5/19)
28. Eleanor C. Pressly (7/17/19, 7/17/20)
29. Gwendolyne Cowart (11/11/19)
30. Marilyn Saviola (1/17/20)
31. Hetty Jane Dunaway (5/10/21)
32. Marie Empress (5/19/21)
33. Columbia Eneutseak (9/3/21)
34. Theodora Wilson Wilson (10/2/21)
35. Matilda Allison (3/8/22)
36. Elise Reiman (9/29/22)
37. Ethel Hampson Brewster (11/5/22)
38. Janet Sorg Stoltzfus (1/14/23}
39. Margaret C. Waites (10/31/24)

My GAs and FAs

I don't actively work towards GA or FA status, but occasionally an article I started becomes a GA or a featured article when other folks have polished it up, including these. I love that Wikipedia's collaborative ecosystem allows such blossoming.

1. Marilyn Saviola (GA, 2020)
2. Daisy Bacon (FA, 1/7/24)