Wikipedia:WikiProject Deaf

Welcome to WikiProject Deaf!

WikiProject Deaf is a collaborative community for people who are interested to improve articles related to sign languages, Deaf culture and deaf-related. You are welcome to post a notice on the Project talk page if you have any questions, suggestions, concerns, or anything related to Deaf- or hard-of-hearing-related articles. Click here to start a new discussion on the Talk page. If you, as Wikipedians who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing, or Hearing person involving with Deaf Culture, would like to assist with this Project, please feel free to add your name to the list below and start participating on this Project page. For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices. Feel free to tag Deaf- and Hard-of-Hearing-related articles, on their talk pages, by placing the following text at the top of the article's Talk page: {{WikiProjectDeaf}}.

Please do not write articles that advocate one particular viewpoint on deaf, politics, religion, or anything else. Understand what we mean by a neutral point of view WP:NPV before tackling/editing this sort of topic.

Be neutral. Citation is your gateway to allowing a sentence/paragraph in. Do not copy original text as-is; you must reword them as neutral and non-offensive as possible.

Neutral point-of-view is the primary goal of Wikipedia.

Roster

WikiProject Deaf Members

If you participate at Deaf/HOH-related articles, and would like to join this Project, please feel free to add yourself to this list. Anyone can become a member of this project; all you have to do is add your name to the list and start participating on these pages. You can add a WikiProject Deaf userbox to your userpage, by adding the following text to it: {{User WikiProject Deaf}}. If you prefer not to use a userbox, you can add [[Category:WikiProject Deaf participants|Username]] to your userpage. Either action will add you to Category:WikiProject Deaf participants. Welcome to the Project!

Gukauno ntennis Gaep13(talk) The Bearded One lux Micahbrwn Lady Mink samh004 Cathryn(talk) Ardenn Mija jrw7 JoeSmack(talk) Jadriaen Deafgeek(talk) Felixboy Eclarep I can write articles. Just tell me what needs to be and I will do my best to write a rough draft. Esamiarum "BSL Lives" Project to add at least 50 new articles related to British Deaf people/BSL users in 2021 Puella Nivis Marialadouce Available to translate to and from English, French and Spanish. Comrade4 2 Chickyfuzz123(talk) NeilEvans Taric25 Available to translate to and from English, Spanish, Arabic, and ASL. Ara Pelodi Won't write articles, but willing to do non writing support, such as take pictures, con knowledgable people into helping, copy edit, or discuss and advise on talk pages, or other types of non article writing help requested. Yupik Available for translations to and from Finnish and from Swedish, Spanish and Catalan KittiSoni Firat Yadeshinov cwterp jomanila - May also help in anything related with Philippines or Filipino Sign Language (FSL) translated to ASL Dave Gedny - Going to contribute and work on the British Sign Language article DmaestosoHandTalk L'Aquatiquetalk Purplewowies Cindy Greatrex User:KissFist Sculleywr Snapdragonfly Joan Beal miki_tanaka AlbertBickford GeoffericT•C✡ 05:01, 20 January 2011 (UTC) AnotherPoint Qaz Egberts(talk) Russell Dent (talk) 11:23, 23 March 2011 (UTC) Docmcconl nooslogos ChinnZ KeganChannel Cuelab Cynthisa Mrs smartygirl Nkansah Rexford Bubbles Alison - hearing, student of ASL Kylie SurdusVII I'm Deaf Italian and Deaf Sicilian Jodon Anuvarshanw User:Halyna Haiko Je suis français et le créateur de le projet de culture sourde en version français. Je suis ici pour échanger ou entraider sur les articles. Akifumii Fluent speaker of over 5 languages. Can contribute with a intermediate level of American Sign Language. Rue-chan Rovine - Fluent speaker of Malayalam and English, capable of understanding Hindi, Tamil, Spanish and French has Level 2 in British Sign Language Clr324 - Interested in deafness and Deaf culture from a political and sociological point of view. Rafapetunia -Student of DGS (german sign Language) interested getting rid of ableist comments in Spanish wiki User:Danachos – field is (Indigenous) sign languages and linguistics / ma domaine vise les langues des signes (Indigènes) et la linguistique Palmtee5 Brucewh – beginning ASL student. Experienced in English language technical writing, proofreading, and making material clearer for the less familiar. PlanespotterA320 (talk) 14:47, 20 October 2017 (UTC) (English and ASL) Thisisnotcam Hearing and an ASL student. Copy-editing and link-adding. AwesomeWikipedian1 Hard of Hearing, fluent in ASL (American Sign Language) and English. Toujoursfrais3 Ulloes User:JoCLee budding MSL/ASL student User:sbbarker19 User:DaintyDysphemism Hearing, intermediate-advanced knowledge of Swedish Sign Language User:BoldLuis, interested in video captions requests in Wikimedia Commons, where Wikipedia videos are uploaded. See Category:Commons requested video captions BatArieh User:Huladavid Veditz DrMel (talk) 05:26, 5 February 2021 (UTC) MDW333 ...add your name here

Goals

1. To improve the overall quality of articles relating to sign languages, Deaf culture and deafness.
2. To encourage collaboration and the formation of a community of Deaf, hard of hearing and interested Hearing wikipedians.
3. To achieve a consensus from a wider group on what are sometimes controversial topics, emphasising a representation from Deaf/deaf and hard of hearing people.
4. To improve the relevant content from all regions of the world.
5. To integrate all the articles into a consistent classification schema (e.g. category hierarchies).

Projects

1. (proposed) Sign languages and linguistics. Establish conventions for sign language pages and implement them (a draft page is now online at Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages/Template (sign language)). Give examples of different sign languages with images and video samples. Also, create a network of pages on sign language linguistics.
2. (proposed) NPOV. Manage pages to insure that all aspects of deafness are addressed in a NPOV, i.e.- both medical and cultural.
3. BSL Lives: add at least 50 new articles related to British Deaf people/BSL ([[[British Sign Language]]]) users in 2021

• Formulate conventions on terminology ("hearing loss", "hearing impairment", hard of hearing, deaf/Deaf, hearing/Hearing, etc.) and apply throughout Wikipedia.
• Discuss possible redirects and disambiguation.

Tasks

1. Create articles from red links on list of sign languages.
2. Develop examples/descriptions of Deaf culture in Deaf culture.
   1. list of films and literature
3. Add {{WikiProjectDeaf}} at the top of the talk page of deaf related articles.
4. Find pictures and videos of sign languages.
5. Education:
   1. Deaf education: Simultaneous Communication, Total Communication, Manualism and oralism, Milan Conference, Bilingual-bicultural education;
   2. Deaf schools: Rochester School for the Deaf, Maryland School for the Deaf, E.C. Drury School for the Deaf
6. Deaf history: Frederick J. Rose, History of sign language, Harlan Lane, Albert Victor Ballin
7. Expand and maintain the article on recognition of sign languages.
8. Expand Telecommunications Relay Service and replace its copyrighted images with free ones.

Templates

Syntax	Name	Usage
{{WikiProjectDeaf}}	WikiProject Deaf Talk Page Template	For use at the header of all pages within the scope of the project.
This user is a participant in WikiProject Deaf.
{{User WikiProject Deaf}}	Userbox	For use on contributors' userpages
Wikipedia ads file info – #143
{{Captions requested}}	Video Captions Requested (VCR)	In Wikimedia Commons, the place where Wikipedia videos are uploaded, to request captions in videos within the scope of the project.

Articles

Please add {{WikiProjectDeaf}} to the talk page of any article within the scope of WikiProject Deaf. Once you do, you can see it in the list of the articles in Category:WikiProject Deaf articles.

Articles in need of improvement

1. Sign language
2. International Sign (link to vocabulary or at least some example signs)
3. Hearing loss
4. Deaf culture
5. Prelingual deafness
6. Child of deaf adult
7. Telecommunications Relay Service
8. Subtitle (captioning)
9. Closed captioning
10. Sign singing
11. Cued Speech
12. American Sign Language literature
13. Si5s
14. South African Sign Language (the Linguistics section contains nothing about linguistics)

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Deaf#Open tasks for one example of how this section can be used.

Articles in need of assessments (grading)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deaf/Assessment

Articles in need of creation

1. History of Deaf Education or similar title, to explain residential schools, the fight over oralism, the politics of how it was decided what kids would be taught, etc. (My request, please move if in wrong place. BrainyBabe 13:11, 4 July 2007 (UTC))

   I went ahead and gave it a more concise title if that's okay with you. I may get to this if I have time in the future. Working for Him (talk) 00:52, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

   May I recommend that we break up Deaf history into one or more of the following focus

   • History about the deaf people and deaf society in generalDeaf culture#history
   • History of training teachers for the deaf Deaf education#History and creating the ==History== section yourself.
   • History of children receiving Deaf culture training, in Deaf culture#History
   • History of Deaf educational institutions and schools, in Schools for the deaf#History

   --Egberts (talk) 19:35, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

2. National Theatre for the Deaf just linked to on American Sign Language Literature. Definitely meets notability requirements. Docmcconl (talk) 03:50, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
3. Articles linked from Laurent Clerc Award probably need to be created, as they are probably prominent and notable figures. Disavian (talk) 00:08, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

1. Dimitra Arapoglou (IT), an Woman Deaf politician greek --SurdusVII (talk) 17:03, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Category

Please note that the Wikipedians only want to see new categories that are 'notable'. The explanation at WP:OCTrivial is worth noting: "Avoid intersections of two traits that are unrelated, even if some person can be found that has both traits. For example, celebrities are usually notable for reasons other than being gamers." So while Marlee Matlin really is notable for being a deaf actress, people in occupations like astronomy or book binding are not, to choose two of the more extreme cases above.

Recognized content

Deaf articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	1	1	1	4			7
GA		1	2	7		2	12
B	5	7	9	14		14	49
C	5	16	22	131		69	243
Start	7	15	45	309	2	191	569
Stub	2	6	12	308		182	510
List		1	2	7	1	7	18
Category				3	601		604
Disambig					6		6
File					10		10
Project					5		5
Template					45		45
NA		2		7	65		74
Other					11		11
Assessed	20	49	93	790	746	465	2,163
Unassessed						10	10
Total	20	49	93	790	746	475	2,173
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 7,048			Ω = 5.07

Featured articles

• Bedřich Smetana

Good articles

• American Sign Language
• Black American Sign Language
• John Collins Covell
• Henry Bell Gilkeson
• Howard Hille Johnson
• Teigan Van Roosmalen

New articles

• Sign language in popular culture

Did You Knows (DYKs)

• Miha Zupan - 2 November 2006.
• Nebraska School for the Deaf - 30 August 2007.

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections

• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Thomas Edison
• Francisco Goya

Parentage

This project's parents are WikiProject Culture, WikiProject Languages, and WikiProject Clinical medicine.

Related pages in Sister projects

• Meta:
  • Meta:WikiProject Deaf
  • {{User WikiProject Deaf}}, that can be utilized for global users.
• Commons:
  • Commons:WikiProject Deaf.
  • Commons:Category:Deafness and Timed Text in videos (subtitles/captions).
  • {{Captions requested}} template in Commons
• Wikibooks:Deaf
  • American Sign Language
  • Visual Language Interpreting
• Wikinews:Deaf
• Wikiquote:Deaf
• Wikisource:Deaf
• Wikispecies:Deaf
• Wiktionary:Deaf
• Wikidata:deafness

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Msleeanntang (talk) 18:25, 16 February 2020 (UTC)