User:Penny Richards

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Penny L. Richards, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Center for Disability Studies at the University at Buffalo (beginning 2015); 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[edit]


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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Table of contributions here.

California Library Hall of Fame, etc.[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Taking women's history to the streets, literally[edit]

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.

Useful link: Wikipedia:List of online newspaper archives

Articles I started, 2024 (2401–)[edit]

  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

Articles I started, 2011-2023[edit]

My DYKs[edit]

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.

My GAs and FAs[edit]

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)