User:Penny Richards

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.

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.

In Summer 2025 I completed a thirteenth alphabet run, again doing destubs, from Astrid to Zhenya, for the World Destubathon.

In January 2026, I completed WP:26 for '26, with all new articles about women. Here's the list.

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.

In February 2025, 22 more: Here's that list.

In February 2026, 24 more: Here's that list.

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).

Table of contributions here.

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.

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 sometime, because it was fun.

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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
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  Me, wearing my "Celebrated Wikimedian" t-shirt

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

1. Judy Jean Chapman
2. Anne Rankin Mahoney
3. Susan Brynteson
4. Coral Gunning
5. Dorothy Bosch Keller
6. Ethel Salisbury Hanley
7. Fanny Davidson
8. Gwendolyn Rees
9. Helen Manley
10. Irene Wallace
11. Jean Frantz Blackall
12. Katherine A. Niemeyer
13. Lindsey Barbee
14. Minnie Mason Beebe
15. Nellie Lee Holt Bok
16. Olive S. Niles
17. Priscilla Frisch
18. Quindara Oliver Dodge
19. Rachel Frease-Green
20. Suzanne Loker
21. Toma Hanlon
22. Una Roberts Lawrence
23. Vinie Daly
24. Norma Wagner
25. Lucretia Xavier Floyd (3000)
26. Ada Watterson Yerkes
27. Zolya Talma
28. Margaret E. Haughawout
29. Hélène Harvitt
30. Mary Katharine Reely
31. Bessie Mayle
32. Lulu Ballard
33. Charlotte Wallace Murray
34. Luvena Wallace Dethridge
35. Carriebel Cole Plummer
36. Nellie Weaver Greene
37. Julia West Hamilton
38. Velma Bell Hamilton
39. Edna S. Landers
40. Odessa Cox
41. Lydia T. Wright
42. Nadine Roberts Waters
43. Fidelia Adams Johnson
44. Thelma Chiles Taylor
45. Pearl G. Pachaco
46. Hortense Love
47. Issie Ringgold
48. Alvira Hazzard
49. Jeanette Triplett Jones
50. Ida Mae Myller (3025)
51. Lola Mercedes Parker
52. Helena Justa
53. Billie Geter Thomas
54. Naomah Maise
55. Marilyn Robinson Waldman
56. Achsah M. Skinner
57. Ruth Hornblower Churchill
58. Veronica Ruzicka
59. Helen Kawagoe
60. Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson
61. Delphine Fitz Darby
62. Ethel Codd Luening
63. Elizabeth Gutman Kaye
64. Adele Gutman Nathan
65. Blanche Hays Fagen
66. Edith Somborn Isaacs
67. Elisabeth Israels Perry
68. Pearl Bernstein Max
69. Belle Zeller
70. Elna Lillback
71. Virginia Mishnun
72. Anita Zahn
73. Brenda Lansdown
74. Barbara Shalucha
75. Jane Fox
76. Gonda Durand
77. Helen Rankin Jeter
78. Grace Dangberg
79. Isabel Gordon Carter
80. Anna Medora Brockway Gray
81. Isabel Fiske Conant
82. Marguerite Janvrin Adams
83. Anna Kalfus Spero
84. Nora McCaffrey
85. Effa E. Preston
86. Margaret T. Cussler

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.

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)