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
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.

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. Useful link: 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

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}

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)