Hoi,

At this time in between Christmas and the new year, it is also a time for fun things to do. So I prepared a challenge for you in the hope that you will like it.

The Gallaudet university awards yearly the Laurent Clerc award [1]. So far there have been 43 recipients. Only three of them have a Wikipedia article on the English Wikipedia.

The objective of this challenge is to show deaf people who are winners. To make a start for you I have added all 43 Laurent Clerc award winners in Wikidata [2]. You can take part in this challenge by:

write a Wikipedia article about these people
add information about these people in Wikidata
providing us with freely licensed images about these people
check if there are other awards for deaf people or awards won by deaf people

Wikipedia has a new feature called "draft". I know it exists but I do not know the finer details. There is a draft article about Valerie [3], this article can also do with some TLC.

I hope you like this challenge of mine. If there is an award, it is that deaf people and deaf culture will get more positive attention.

Thanks,

Gerard

[1] http://www.gallaudet.edu/development_and_alumni_relations/alumni_relations/alumni_association_(guaa)/awards/clerc_award.html

[2] http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=6501096

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Valerie_Sutton

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