HHamilto@doe.k12.ga.us wrote in message news:OFF9C091A5.D2C71C17-ON85257076.006A0360-85257076.0069F851@doe.k12.ga.us...
I am writing to request the establishment of an American Sign Language-English bilingual Wikipedia. This will contain the written word versions of articles (Englsih) and American Sign Language versions via video. We have a dozen users ready to start building this powerful resource for deaf users and will be recruiting more.
I had an idea in connection with this, whilst reading all the "how do we do it" messages. Unfortunately the website I wanted to use is unavailable: the SWML (SignWirting Markup language) site at http://swml.ucpel.tche.br/ seems be broken at present.
I wondered whether it could be possible to create a SignWriting extension to Mediawiki, along the same lines as WikiHiero, which used SWML as the source. This would at the very least allow us to display the signs in articles about them, and might provide some sort of kick-start for more extensive usage.