On 9/16/05, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
There is *no* generally accepted orthography for any of the signed languages. Even the computer generated videos are not generally accepted.
Then it sounds to me like ASL is not yet mature enough, as a language, to merit a Wikipedia of its own. If ASL signers are not willing to accept synthetic signing, then I suggest that they need to adjust their attitudes (or else improve the quality of sign synthesis software). It's not practical to record hundreds of thousands of videos to facilitate access for a relatively small community. Also, having to rerecord the video every time an edit is required basically means that the ASL Wikipedia won't be a true Wikipedia, just a translation of parts of the English Wikipedia.
Basically what I'm saying is that it's not unreasonable for us to expect the deaf community to "meet us halfway" on this issue.
Kelly