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 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 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!

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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.
  1. (in progress) Deaf Around the World. Create articles describing what life is like for deaf and hard-of-hearing people around the world. Supported in part by a WikiEdu partnership wherein university students create new articles as part of a course. As of 1/11/25, the following articles have been created:

Matthall.research (talk) 18:28, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

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.
  9. Add more photos of technology marketed to/used by Deaf and deaf people (such as loop systems, hand-held caption displays, hearing aids, cochlears, etc) to Wikimedia Commons.

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WikiProject iconThis article is part of WikiProject Deaf, the WikiProject which seeks to improve articles relating to all aspects of deaf-related and Deaf culture. For the Project guidelines, see the project page or talk page.DeafWikipedia:WikiProject DeafTemplate:WikiProject Deafdeaf
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{{WikiProjectDeaf}}WikiProject Deaf Talk Page TemplateFor use at the header of all pages within the scope of the project.
This user participates in WikiProject Deaf.
{{User WikiProject Deaf}}UserboxFor use on contributors' userpages
Wikipedia ad for Wikipedia:WikiProject Deaf
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{{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.
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