ASL is a completely different language from English. Comments like
Uhm, why does that need it's own wiki? Couldn't the videos just be added to en wiki? And also, can't most deaf people (in english speaking countries) read/write english? — Phroziac ... the project would likely cope much better as part of the larger en.wiki community. — Andrew Gray
(these are just a couple of random selections, nothing against either poster personally) could, I think, easily be taken as opposing the basic Wikipedian principle of people's right to access to information in their own languages. Yes, most people whose first and most fluent language is ASL have been educated largely in English (depending on where and when they were schooled this may have included deprecating ASL in favor of "Signed English" and finger-spelling, and may or may not have included acquiring a high degree of proficiency in lip-reading). Regardless of the technical means and organization of a signed Wikipedia, I would encourage people discussing the matter not to use wordings that may suggest that ASL is not a language in its own right, or that deaf people have a less fundamental right to acquire knowledge through their own languages than have hearing people. Haruo