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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).

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. 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.

Syntax	Name	Usage
Deaf NA‑class This 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 articles NA This article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
((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.

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)
15. American Annals of the Deaf

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))Reply[reply]

   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)Reply[reply]

   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)Reply[reply]

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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
4. American Indian Sign Language (AISL), which is considered an endangered language variety but is still used and learned natively by some members of various Indian nations across Canada and the United States (including the Assiniboine, Blackfeet/Blackfoot, Cherokee, Crow, Northern Cheyenne, Nakoda/Lakȟóta, and Mandan-Hidatsa). Adding this here after not finding this article to use as a link for John Louis Clarke.^[1][2] PigeonChickenFish (talk) 01:46, 16 February 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]
5. American Indian Sign Language Conference, which was an August 4–6, 1930 conference at Museum of the Plains Indian, Browning, Montana to document the AISL language. This could be made into a single article with American Indian Sign Language, depending on the amount of history and sourcing. Currently this article exists only on Wikipedia in Czech, Sněm indiánských mluvčích znakového jazyka.^[3] PigeonChickenFish (talk) 02:03, 16 February 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

1. Deafness in LGBTQ+ or similar title, to explain the intersection of Deaf and queer communities, Deaf drag, list of influential Deaf queer individuals, organizations nationally supporting the Deaf queer community. (Kmak 32 8:55, 11 November 2022 (UTC))

   The articles could be broke up into the following

   • History about the Deaf community and LGBTQ community in generalDeaf culture#history
   • Deaf Queer Social Movements
   • Deaf Queer Resources and Institutions Deaf Culture#Deaf LGBT institutions
   • Deafies in Drag, with a section added on the Drag page as well
   • Deaf Queer Publications that include academic papers, memoirs, poetry
   • Deaf Queer Media, including films and art
   • Deaf Queer People: Nyle DiMarco, Chella Man, Drago Renteria, Josh Feldman, Socorro Garcia, etc

   --(Kmak 32 8:55, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

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.

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	8	9	13		15	50
C	5	15	22	130		68	240
Start	7	15	44	306	2	186	560
Stub	2	6	12	308		180	508
List		1	2	7	1	7	18
Category				3	599		602
Disambig					6		6
File					10		10
Project					5		5
Template					43		43
NA		2		6	65		73
Other					8		8
Assessed	20	49	92	784	739	458	2,142
Unassessed						4	4
Total	20	49	92	784	739	462	2,146
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 6,982			Ω = 5.07

Featured articles

• Bedřich Smetana

Good articles

• American Sign Language
• Black American Sign Language
• Gallaudet_University
• Georg Forchhammer
• 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.

Former featured articles

Former good articles

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

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

• 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)Reply[reply]