Hello Gerard and Oliver and the Language Committee -
Thank you for this attention. There are two Sign Language Wikipedias now, on Wikimedia Incubator, with articles:
American Sign Language Wikipedia https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ase
and
Tunisian Sign Language Wikipedia https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/tse
The Tunisian Sign Language Wikipedia has three articles - They are beautiful articles and I am so proud and happy for the Tunisians, who are remarkable people.
The American Sign Language Wikipedia has more articles - I am not sure - it is around 54 I believe.
Lately there has been more activity, and that is great to see that - I love the recent articles on Star Wars, Elon Musk and 3-D Printers in the ASL Wikipedia - very timely articles ;-)
All of this has been made possible by Wikimedia's generosity to give us the Incubator space to encourage writers to contribute - thank you for that - and to the two software developers who have put in so much time to make it possible for us to write directly in the SignWriting Script - Steve Slevinski and Yair Rand.
Steve and Yair are the two technicians to talk to, about the software development behind the Sign Language Wikipedias on Incubator. I have included them in this email, since I am not a software developer myself and I cannot answer your software-related questions -
Yair Rand developed the Javascript Keyboard we are using, in combination with SignPuddle software, to write the articles -
I hope Steve and Yair can answer your question, Oliver, which is at the bottom of this email -
Anyway - I agree, Gerard, it is cool to see such beautiful articles in written ASL.
Best to all of you -
Val ;-)
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On May 15, 2016, at 2:07 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, I included Valerie. She stands for the organisation that makes and made both SignWriting and this Wikipedia a realisty. Thanks, GerardM
On 15 May 2016 at 10:45, Oliver Stegen <oliver_stegen@sil.org mailto:oliver_stegen@sil.org> wrote: Thanks, Gerard,
I support this in principle. It could set a standard for other sign languages as well. I expect that there is a dedicated community which would make the ASL wikipedia a viable reality?
Looking forward to hearing more about this, Oliver
On 15-May-16 9:47 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi, Have a look at this [1]. It clearly shows that a lot of work needs to be done to get MediaWiki right for sign languages with SignWriting.
I propose that we let ASL be a Wikipedia It enables all the work that needs doing to make it work properly. It deserves it imho as well. Thanks, GerardM
- https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ase/M510x546S20320495x455S1fb20495x4... https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ase/M510x546S20320495x455S1fb20495x474S1f720490x497S11a20495x516_M511x551S18620493x450S1f720489x483S11a20494x502S20320494x536
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On May 15, 2016, at 12:04 AM, gfb hjjhjh c933103@gmail.com wrote:
When I try to see what's wrong on the page, I get this...
2016/05/15 14:48 "Gerard Meijssen" <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com mailto:gerard.meijssen@gmail.com>: Hoi, Have a look at this [1]. It clearly shows that a lot of work needs to be done to get MediaWiki right for sign languages with SignWriting.
I propose that we let ASL be a Wikipedia It enables all the work that needs doing to make it work properly. It deserves it imho as well. Thanks, GerardM
- https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ase/M510x546S20320495x455S1fb20495x4... https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ase/M510x546S20320495x455S1fb20495x474S1f720490x497S11a20495x516_M511x551S18620493x450S1f720489x483S11a20494x502S20320494x536
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