Alphax wrote:
HHamilto@doe.k12.ga.us wrote:
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Videos could be stored on the Commons and linked to from the English text page but the video file size limit would need to be increased dramatically from 2MB. The sample video in the link above is about 1.5 minutes and is 16MB.
I'm on dialup, you insensitive clod. If videos *are* used in a signed Wikipedia, there will never be paper copies, and you will make in inaccessable to everyone except those fortunate enough to be on high incomes in Europe or North America, most of whom can read well enough that they won't go to the bother of learning how to use whatever technology is required to produce signed articles. If this is the road you end up going down, you can take your project, stick it in a pipe, and smoke it.
First of all ASL is only used in North America. When there will be no "paper copies" there is no real loss given the current amount of paper copies. So I do not know what you have been smoking and that is a *need to know* in order to get a similar experience
Making Wikipedia able to handle video will make it more up-to-date. Text and pictures were top-o -the-line in the '80's.
Text was the baseline. Today's baseline is text and pictures, not Flash and streaming media. Go over the baseline and everyone loses.
How would you feel if the Foundation said "We're not going to have any content in anything other than Esperanto because we think that everyone should be capable of learning this language"?
Even when supporting signed languages is a bit tricky at this moment in time, it is not an excuse to not want to support signed languages. When we start supporting signed languages and it is currently a bit problematic, it does not mean that it will remain problematic over time.
Thanks, GerardM