Again, there are many different mutually incomprehensible signed languages. Countries where English is the primary language don't all have the same signed language (British sign language is not even related to American sign language), and American Sign Language is also used in countries where English is NOT the primary language (most notably in parts of Mexico).
Mark
On 12/09/05, Phil Boswell phil.boswell@gmail.com wrote:
"Andrew Gray" shimgray@gmail.com wrote in message news:f3fedb0d050909110328f83dbb@mail.gmail.com...
On 09/09/05, Ros' Haruo rosharuo@gmail.com wrote:
... 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.
My point was mainly directed at the "bilingual" idea. If it is to involve a large amount of text in English, which is the impression I got from the query, alongside the ASL... then it makes sense to try and arrange it in such a way as to take advantage of the fact that we have a well-developed, organised community writing that English text at an astonishing rate.
I concur, at the present time.
I can see very little difference between providing [[en:Wikipedia:Spoken Wikipedia]] for those who have a problem with their sight and providing [[en:Wikipedia:Signed Wikipedia]] for those who have a problem with their hearing.
If the idea takes off and a great many articles are converted into Sign Language, and someone comes up with a brilliant way of editing Sign Language in a wiki-like manner, then this material could be used to jump-start a new Wikipedia.
It seems to me that we could get a great deal done using the material we already have, rather than waiting for the requisite wheel to be invented.
I sit ready to be corrected, of course, and I await developments eagerly.
Phil [[en:User:Phil Boswell]]
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