User:Egberts/WikiProject Deaf

WikiProject Deaf is a WikiProject intended primarily to produce articles and a consistent format for articles relating to the Deaf community and deaf people of the world.

Best of WikiProject Deaf
Articles, lists and images relating to Deaf (the creators of whom are encouraged to join this WikiProject; if grandfathered into this project, marked with *) will be showcased as being some of the finest works on Wikipedia. The following categories will be honored with inclusion among Wikipedia's Featured Articles, Featured Lists, Featured Pictures and Good Articles:

Version 1.0 Editorial Team release selections
The following articles have been selected for inclusion in one or more release versions of wikipedia. Please help ensure that these articles remain of the highest possible quality.

Tasks

 * Add all new articles by category to the list at WikiProject Deaf/Articles.
 * Use the recent changes function to monitor these articles for improvement, vandalism, and other changes.
 * 1) Work on all these stubs!
 * 2) Identify articles related to Deaf and add them to Category:Deaf (or one of its subcategories).
 * 3) Assess articles using the project template
 * 4) Work on articles below (and add your own)

Cleanup listing

 * User:WolterBot/Cleanup listing subscription

Articles

 * Deaf uses the template Template:Infobox Deaf. The information there needs to remain up-to-date.
 * see Category:WikiProject Deaf

When you find an article that either needs cleanup/rebuilding, needs to be built altogether, or otherwise could be improved upon, please add it here, so we can all help!

Lists

 * List of Deaf Studies journals
 * Expand this list

Article assessments
The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the WikiProject Deaf project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Deaf articles by quality, Category:Deaf articles by importance, Category:Deaf articles needing attention. The quality and importance ratings serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist. There is also Category:Non-article Deaf pages) for things like redirect pages, templates, categories, images, etc.

Templates
The main templates page is located (temporarily) at /templates. This section lists the most commonly used and most general templates. For commenting, reference, and more in-depth template information, see the main template page.

Common templates
Deaf WikiProject Deaf
 * Deaf (to go at the bottom of Deaf–related pages- only with strong geographical content)
 * DEGeneral (to go at the bottom of Deaf–related pages)
 * WikiProject Deaf (to go on the tops of the talk pages of Deaf–related articles)

Categories
Category hierarchy starts at Category:Deaf. See WikiProject Deaf/Categories for full list and proposed changes.

There is also a category of Wikipedians called: Category:Wikipedians of the Deaf.

Images
Here are some images that were either created by/for this Project, or would just be handy for this Project. Please add more!


 * Lots of images found at commons:Category:Deaf. Please consider uploading free licensed works here so that they can be easily used by projects besides the English language wikipedia.

Requested photos
You can use the template to add talk pages to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of Deaf people. Please add free content photos for these articles where possible.

Stubs

 * A general-purpose Deaf stub was created on March 18, 2011. It is Deaf-stub.  The corresponding category is Category:Deafness stubs.  Example:

Wikiportal
This project now has a portal: Portal:Deaf.

Project notice template
Deaf-related articles should have the following link WikiProject Deaf inserted at the top of the talk pages It will come out looking like this:

Other related wikiprojects: None yet, please feel free to come up with ideas here!

Participants
Current participants include: (an * indicates a administrator. If there is a need for administrative assistance — article and category deletion and undeletion, page protection and unprotection, remedy vandalism, movement of articles and redirects, user or ip address block and unblock, enforcement of arbitration rulings — please contact that person through his or her user discussion page.)


 * EaglesFanInTampa, project founder

Credit where it's due
This Project is clearly a blatant rip-off of WikiProject Delaware, which in itself is a blatant rip-off of WikiProject Massachusetts, which, in turn, is a blatant rip-off of WikiProject Vermont, for which the creator of WP:WPDE (as I'm sure the other usurpers, as well) is eternally grateful, yet remoseful all at once.

Tools

 * Main tool page: toolserver.org


 * Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
 * Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
 * Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
 * Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

External watchlist

 * Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Deaf