While this is all very interesting (I am not being sarcastic, this is what my research is about!) this is almost totally off-topic. Please take this on-wiki or to private email.

I didn't notice any mention of the proof-of-concept wiki for SignWriting at http://www.signpuddle.net/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page

It's clearly insufficient for writing encyclopedia articles, but I think even this early stuff would be suitable for starting a Wiktionary. I think that would be a much better project to start at this point, for reasons mentioned previously, but one critical one: We have community members (such as myself) who could contribute to ase.wiktionary but not ase.wikipedia. I'm not fluent in ASL to begin with, and I'm unfamiliar with SignWriting. As mentioned, many Deaf people might be in a similar position, since there has historically been essentially no written form of ASL.

I've also started a project at Wikiversity to serve that group of people: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Learn_SignWriting_for_American_Sign_Language. I'll hopefully be adding to it as I learn more about SignWriting myself - other interested parties are of course encouraged to help me!

-Mike

2008/11/23 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com:

Hoi, Good idea Mark... " "a croaking dalek with laryngitis" Thanks, GerardM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlear_implant#Efficacy

---- Mike.lifeguard mikelifeguard@fastmail.fm