"Andrew Gray" <shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote in
message news:f3fedb0d050909110328f83dbb@mail.gmail.com...
On 09/09/05, Ros' Haruo <rosharuo(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
... the project would likely cope much better as
part of the
larger en.wiki community. Andrew Gray
(these are just a couple of random selections, nothing against either
poster
personally) could, I think, easily be taken as opposing the basic
Wikipedian
principle of people's right to access to information in their own
languages.
My point was mainly directed at the "bilingual" idea. If it
is to
involve a large amount of text in English, which is the impression I
got from the query, alongside the ASL... then it makes sense to try
and arrange it in such a way as to take advantage of the fact that we
have a well-developed, organised community writing that English text
at an astonishing rate.
I concur, at the present time.
I can see very little difference between providing [[en:Wikipedia:Spoken
Wikipedia]] for those who have a problem with their sight and providing
[[en:Wikipedia:Signed Wikipedia]] for those who have a problem with their
hearing.
If the idea takes off and a great many articles are converted into Sign
Language, and someone comes up with a brilliant way of editing Sign Language
in a wiki-like manner, then this material could be used to jump-start a new
Wikipedia.
It seems to me that we could get a great deal done using the material we
already have, rather than waiting for the requisite wheel to be invented.
I sit ready to be corrected, of course, and I await developments eagerly.
--
Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]]