[Wikipedia-l] Sample ASL/English entry

[Kelly Martin]

On 9/16/05, HHamilto at doe.k12.ga.us <HHamilto at doe.k12.ga.us> wrote:
> Videos could be stored on the Commons and linked to from the English text
> page but the video file size limit would need to be increased dramatically
> from 2MB. The sample video in the link above is about 1.5 minutes and is
> 16MB.

You are kidding, right?  You want a 16MB video attached to each
article in enwiki?  That would take up, what, about 10TB?  Are you
going to pay for that storage array?  How about the added bandwidth?

ASL (like all sign languages) should be a text encyclopedia written in
a generally accepted orthography for ASL; users who cannot read the
orthography (illiterate users) may utilize tools to generate
computer-generated signed videos from the text, the same way that an
illiterate English-speaking person may use a speech synthesis tool to
have an article in English read to him.

Kelly