Wikipedia:WikiProject Deaf

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WikiProject Deaf is a collaborative community for people who are interested to improve articles related to sign languages, Deaf culture and deafness. 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 would like to assist with this Project, 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.

Wikipedians who are Deaf or hard of hearing, or who consider themselves culturally Deaf are encouraged to join Category:Deaf Wikipedians. The user category for Deaf Wikipedians was deleted in this decision. See the deletion log to see what has happened to this category since the deletion. The deletion can be discussed (or challenged) on our Talk page. In the meantime, please feel free to add yourself to Category:WikiProject Deaf participants.

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}}.

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[edit] 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!

...add your name here

[edit] 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 (eg. category hierarchies).

[edit] 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.
  • 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.

[edit] 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
  7. Expand and maintain the article on recognition of sign languages.
  8. Expand Telecommunications Relay Service and replace its copyrighted images with free ones.

[edit] Templates

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{{WikiProjectDeaf}} WikiProject Deaf Talk Page Template For use at the header of all pages within the scope of the project.
This user is a member of WikiProject Deaf.
{{User WikiProject Deaf}} Userbox For use on contributers' userpages
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{{wikipedia ads|ad=143}} WikiProject Deaf Ad For use on userpages ONLY to recruit potential members and raise awareness of the project.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Articles in need of improvement

  1. Sign language
  2. International Sign (link to vocabulary or at least some example signs)
  3. Hearing impairment
  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

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

[edit] Articles in need of creation

  1. History of the education of deaf people 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))

[edit] Recognized content

Deaf
articles		 Importance
High Mid None Total
Quality
Good article GA 1 1
B 12 12
Start 1 62 63
Stub 60 60
Assessed 1 135 136
Unassessed 1 150 151
Total 1 1 285 287

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

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