Wikipedia:WikiProject Disability

For the project about the accessibility of Wikipedia itself, see WP:WikiProject Accessibility.

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The aim of Wikiproject Disability is to co-ordinate the improvement and creation of articles related to Disability. If you would like to participate, you can start by joining the project below and/or contribute to the discussion on the talk page.

To indicate that an article falls within the scope of this WikiProject, please add the {{WikiProject Disability}} talk page template. This will automatically place it into Category:WikiProject Disability articles.

Participants

This user is a participant in WikiProject Disability.

{{User WikiProject Disability}}

Below is a list of those Wikipedia users who have taken it upon themselves to be regular contributors to this project's goals. Feel free to add yourself at any time. You can also add this userbox to your user page when joining the project if you wish.

• Hron du fleuve (talk)
• 47thPennVols (talk)
• Abishe (talk)
• Amousey (talk)
• Antiblastic (talk)
• Ashertheaxolotl I'd like to specifically work with articles on disabilities that I have. I have ADHD, autism, hyperacusis and anxiety
• CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 17:03, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
• Catchant Primarily interested in articles about the self advocacy movement
• Chongkian (talk) - Anything that I can help about disability :)
• Roger (Dodger67) (talk)
• Donna's Cyborg (talk)
• Eewilson – talk (tag or ping me!)
• Evertype -- Evertype·✆
• Feralcateater000
• GarethFW I've been involved in digital accessibility for about 20 years however I'm really interested in disability stories and portrayal on stage, in TV drama and film. I am neurodivergent
• Geeklizzard (talk)
• LilyKitty
• Brian Kelly --BrianKelly (talk)
• Jessica L (talk)
• Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:27, 21 August 2017 (UTC)
• Mike Gifford
• Mirokado (talk)
• Nikscholarly20 (talk)
• Penny Richards
• Poeticfeelings (talk) 16:32, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
• PoetVeches
• Purplewowies (talk)
• Schew412
• Significa liberdade (talk), currently (July 2023) starting dissertation in Neurodiversity studies
• Smasongarrison (talk) 06:14, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
• SomeoneDreaming
• sjly
• Taylordw (talk)
• Titodutta (talk)
• VastV0idInSpace0 {have a great day!} (talk)
• XFLQR (talk)
• Xurizuri My knowledge and interests tend to fall more on the psych side. Currently (Jan 2021) slowly improving ADHD coverage.
• YellowAries2010 (talk)
• MokshaFarm (talk)Knowledge/interest in cognitive, visual, motor disability and disability studies.
• Fernmyne Sociology of disability, neurodiversity, disability rights movement

Inactive members

Members who have not made any edits anywhere on the English Wikipedia in more than six months. Last updated 31 May 2024.

• Adamtrain (talk)
• Amvrana (talk)
• Anarendil (talk)
• Appleangel11 (talk)
• Attaboy (talk)
• AugurNZ (talk)
• BoboMeowCat (talk)
• Boonparit Thunthai (บุญพฤทธิ์ ทวนทัย) (talk)
• User:Charlie9637 (User talk: Charlie9637)
• Clr324 (talk)
• Colinetto (talk)
• DarkArcherPrince(talk)
• Darwinerasmus (talk)
• Dinostarus (talk)
• Dr. red pill
• Escapepea (talk)
• Franz53sda (talk) I'm a contributor to the french project Handicap.
• Freyaonthewaka (talk)
• Lsh313724 (talk)
• Mattokamagic(talk)
• Muffinator (talk)
• OttawaAC (talk)
• Pandovski
• ThomasEdistar (talk)
• SherryOcean (talk)
• Xttina.Garnet I am a neuroscience masters student. My research focuses on stereotypes and prejudice. I was involved in disability Justice, in college.
• Yetundee (talk)
• Cmetoyer (talk)
• Kaylahackman (talk) 19:26, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
• Anetode (talk)
• Asmaley (talk)
• BeeTheFae (talk)
• Beginning (talk)
• Cattos12
• User: CircleGirl (talk)
• DisabledEditor (DisabledEditor)
• Diptanshu^Talk 05:45, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
• Doddsam09 (talk): I am a Special Collections archivist and I oversee the Texas Disability History Collection
• FelixtheNomad (talk) 13:31, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
• Insolectual
• Jackiekoerner (talk)
• Janaremy (talk)
• JTdisabilityartsonline (talk)
• Pattkait (talk)
• Persicifolia
• Rainbowofpeace
• Sakura Cartelet
• ShortyMcShortFace (talk)
• Sarah Lewthwaite (talk)
• Snicks2 (talk)
• Son of Setanta
• Splinemath
• Sportygeek (talk)
• Standenman (talk)
• Stufroguk (talk)
• Sumita Roy Dutta (talk) 10:28, 23 November 2018 (UTC) (talk)
• Wendy Chisholm
• Wesley Mouse (talk)
• Wheeled Ciara (talk)
• Zp 2298 (talk)

Statistics

WikiProject Disability assessment statistics

Disability pages by quality
Quality
	Total
FA	30
FL	13
GA	170
B	515
C	1,818
Start	4,964
Stub	4,354
List	273
Category	6,659
Disambig	12
File	122
Project	23
Redirect	483
Template	440
NA	3
Draft	39
Assessed	19,918
Unassessed	387
Total	20,305
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 60,101			Ω = 5.07

log • category The statistics table is updated daily by the WP 1.0 bot:

Article alerts

The article alerts page provides a daily summary of article work flows. By watching this page you will know which articles are involved in ongoing actions including, for example, deletion requests or good article nominations.

Deletion discussions about disability-related articles, please feel free to participate.

The new articles listing (please watch this list to get notifications of updates) provides a list of recent-created articles. This is also transcluded on New articles which has some further comments. See also the bot activity log and The Rules for this report, which can be tuned or extended as necessary. You can find information about the rules at Compile the Rules.

Did you know

• 13 Oct 2024 – Anastasia Somoza (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Innisfree987 (t · c); see discussion
• 13 Oct 2024 – Nazi crimes against children (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

• 22 Oct 2024 – Athletico Physical Therapy (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Left guide (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 05 Nov 2024; see discussion (5 participants; relisted)

Featured list candidates

• 01 Oct 2024 – List of chronic pain syndromes (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by IntentionallyDense (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 11 Sep 2024 – Kawa model (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Significa liberdade (t · c); see discussion
• 01 Jul 2024 – Buzz Lightyear (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Fieryninja (t · c); start discussion

Good article reassessments

• 28 Oct 2024 – Tyrion Lannister (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 28 Oct 2024 – National Disability Insurance Scheme (talk · edit · hist) move request somewhere else by Alpha3031 (t · c) was not moved; see discussion

Articles to be split

• 19 Aug 2024 – Grim & Evil (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Anthony2106 (t · c); see discussion
• 13 Jun 2024 – Minority group (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by ChillyDude153198 (t · c); see discussion
• 19 Mar 2021 – Personal transporter (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 162.208.168.92 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 04 Nov 2024 – Draft:Mia Ives-Rublee (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Dawgstar84 (t · c)
• 02 Nov 2024 – Draft:National Adult Literacy Agency (Ireland) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 185.31.99.207 (t · c)
• 17 Oct 2024 – Draft:Pennine Mencap (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 2A00:23C8:7185:6001:94A:A621:DEE3:739F (t · c)
• 25 Oct 2024 – Draft:CDD (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Prosenjit Bangladesh (t · c) was declined by Gorden 2211 (t · c) on 04 Nov 2024

Popular pages

For the most viewed Disability related articles, see Popular pages. Updated by the Mr.Z-bot on the 1st of each month.

WikiProject banner

Please add {{WikiProject Disability}} to the talk page of Disability related articles, which will display:

Barnstar

		WikiProject Disability Barnstar
		Awarded for hard work and excellence in contributing to WikiProject Disability. Awarded by: "Username" "Time&Date"

Template:
{{subst:The Disability Barnstar|Awarded for hard work and excellence in contributing to<br />[[WP:WikiProject Disability|WikiProject Disability]].<br /> <small>Awarded by: ~~~~</small>}}

Usage:
Please award this Barnstar to deserving editors by placing the Template - everything between, and including, the double curly brackets {{ }} - on their Talk page. The recipient is welcome to place it on their User page if they wish.
The text between "Awarded for" and the line break "<br />" before the wikiproject link may be edited, but please don't deviate too much from the suggested criteria and keep it brief. Insert a line break "<br />" if necessary to keep the box a reasonable width.
The awarding editor's signature "~~~~" must be included as proof that a recipient didn't give it to themself.
Don't give it to just anybody, it must be earned.

Invitation template

Hello, WikiProject Disability, I have noticed your interest in articles related to Disability. I'd like to invite you to become a part of WikiProject Disability, a WikiProject aimed at improving the quality of articles dealing with disability on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page for more information. Thanks! ~~~~

This template must be substituted, use {{subst:WikiProject Disability Invite}}

Index of pages and templates

WikiProject pages

Watchlist on toolserver.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Disability (Project main page — this page)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Disability/Assessment (Project sub-page for article assessment)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Disability/Collaboration (Project sub-page for collaboration on articles)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Disability/Peer review (Project sub-page for peer review of articles)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Disability/Popular pages (Project sub-page for evaluating article popularity)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Disability/Article alerts (Project sub-page where a bot provides a daily summary of article work flows)

User:AlexNewArtBot/DisabilitySearchResult — bot-generated new articles list

Wikipedia:WikiProject Disability/New articles — transcludes the new articles list, additional comments

Wikipedia:WikiProject Disability/Style advice (Project sub-page containing advice for writing about disability on Wikipedia)

Templates

Template:WikiProject Disability (Talk page banner — placed at the top of the talk pages of all articles relevant to the project)

Template:WikiProject Disability/class (custom page classification definitions)

Template:Disability sidebar (Sidebar — placed in or near the lead section of relevant articles)

Please use this instead of Template:Disability Sidebar which is now a redirect

Template:Disability navbox (Navbox — placed at the bottom of relevant article pages)

Please use this instead of Template:WikiProject Disability Navbox which is now a redirect

Template:User WikiProject Disability (User box — place this on your user page when you join the project)

Template:The Disability Barnstar (Barnstar — awarded to deserving editors. Please see the Barnstar section for instructions on how to use it.)

Template:WikiProject Disability Invite (WikiProject invitation — place on user talk page to invite the user to join the project.)

Service subscriptions

New articles listing

User:AlexNewArtBot — human-readable list of subscriptions

User:AlexNewArtBot/Disability — the rules

User:AlexNewArtBot/Master — the list of subscriptions which the bot reads

Article alerts

Wikipedia:Article alerts/Subscription list — has the entry with definitions for our article alerts service

Paralympics Task Force

The Paralympic Games and related topics are covered by the Paralympics Task Force under the Olympics WikiProject.

Collaborations

• WP:WikiProject Women in Red/Disability

Disability related drafts

Please contribute to these drafts. If you start a new draft or discover an existing draft that is related to disability please add a {{WikiProject Disability|class=Draft}} tag to the draft's Talk page.

Signpost article

The July 2015 edition of The Signpost has a WikiProject report about this project.

Project leaflet or poster

Originally created for Wikimania 2014