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(a)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(a)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
1.
https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ase/M510x546S20320495x455S1fb20495x…
<https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ase/M510x546S20320495x455S1fb20495x474S1f720490x497S11a20495x516_M511x551S18620493x450S1f720489x483S11a20494x502S20320494x536>
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On May 15, 2016, at 12:04 AM, gfb hjjhjh
<c933103(a)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(a)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
1.
https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ase/M510x546S20320495x455S1fb20495x…
<https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ase/M510x546S20320495x455S1fb20495x474S1f720490x497S11a20495x516_M511x551S18620493x450S1f720489x483S11a20494x502S20320494x536>
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