[Wikipedia-l] Re: new request for ASL/English wikipedia

Paweł Dembowski fallout at lexx.eu.org
Wed Sep 7 20:13:03 UTC 2005


> There are two main ASL writing systems: Stokoe, and SignWriting. If you
> can work out how to make either of these (or any other system I don't
> know about, but is common amongst deaf users of ASL) work with 
> Wikipedia, you've got a good chance of getting a consensus to start a
> new Wikipedia for ASL as a first-class written language. Otherwise, all
> you have is the visual equivalent of spoken-word readings of articles in
> other languages: they may be interesting and even useful, but since 
> they're not interactive and Wiki-linked, they're not a Wikipedia.

Would an automatic converter like simplified Chinese/traditional
Chinese be possible to convert it to other sign languages?

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