[Wikipedia-l] Treat like Hieroglyphics (was Re: new request for ASL/English wikipedia)

[Phil Boswell]

<HHamilto at doe.k12.ga.us> wrote in message 
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> I am writing to request the establishment of an American Sign
> Language-English bilingual Wikipedia. This will contain the written word
> versions of articles (Englsih) and American Sign Language versions via
> video. We have a dozen users ready to start building this powerful 
> resource
> for deaf users and will be recruiting more.


I had an idea in connection with this, whilst reading all the "how do we do 
it" messages. Unfortunately the website I wanted to use is unavailable: the 
SWML (SignWirting Markup language) site at http://swml.ucpel.tche.br/ seems 
be broken at present.

I wondered whether it could be possible to create a SignWriting extension to 
Mediawiki, along the same lines as WikiHiero, which used SWML as the source. 
This would at the very least allow us to display the signs in articles about 
them, and might provide some sort of kick-start for more extensive usage.
-- 
Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]]