Some of you have mentioned SignWriting (at www.signwriting.org) as a textual way of displaying ASL. The problem is less than a handful of people know SignWriting. Video of ASL is needed to make a true ASL wikipedia
On 9/14/05, HHamilto@doe.k12.ga.us HHamilto@doe.k12.ga.us wrote:
Some of you have mentioned SignWriting (at www.signwriting.org) as a textual way of displaying ASL. The problem is less than a handful of people know SignWriting. Video of ASL is needed to make a true ASL wikipedia
How exactly do you edit a video like wikitext?
Phroziac wrote:
On 9/14/05, HHamilto@doe.k12.ga.us HHamilto@doe.k12.ga.us wrote:
Some of you have mentioned SignWriting (at www.signwriting.org) as a textual way of displaying ASL. The problem is less than a handful of people know SignWriting. Video of ASL is needed to make a true ASL wikipedia
How exactly do you edit a video like wikitext?
Maybe a sign language Wikipedia should wait until technology exists to automatically convert SignWriting, or any other form of writing sign languages, to video.
Timwi
Maybe a sign language Wikipedia should wait until technology exists to automatically convert SignWriting, or any other form of writing sign languages, to video. Timwi
Why not SignWriting -> GIF animations conversion, though?
Have you read my e-mails at all?
There's already technology which converts HamNoSys or Stokoe to video.
Mark
On 14/09/05, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
Phroziac wrote:
On 9/14/05, HHamilto@doe.k12.ga.us HHamilto@doe.k12.ga.us wrote:
Some of you have mentioned SignWriting (at www.signwriting.org) as a textual way of displaying ASL. The problem is less than a handful of people know SignWriting. Video of ASL is needed to make a true ASL wikipedia
How exactly do you edit a video like wikitext?
Maybe a sign language Wikipedia should wait until technology exists to automatically convert SignWriting, or any other form of writing sign languages, to video.
Timwi
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Timwi wrote:
Phroziac wrote:
On 9/14/05, HHamilto@doe.k12.ga.us HHamilto@doe.k12.ga.us wrote:
Some of you have mentioned SignWriting (at www.signwriting.org) as a textual way of displaying ASL. The problem is less than a handful of people know SignWriting. Video of ASL is needed to make a true ASL wikipedia
How exactly do you edit a video like wikitext?
Maybe a sign language Wikipedia should wait until technology exists to automatically convert SignWriting, or any other form of writing sign languages, to video.
Timwi
Hoi, In my experience if you want something to happen, something like Wikis in sign languages, you should not wait for everything to be perfect. It is the stimulus of the itch that make people scratch. Commons was created before it was possible to use its content in other projects and this really did stimulate coding and mindshare. As such it proved really wiki to start and find solutions because of the need that was felt, not the issues that were expressed.
Thanks, Gerard
Some of you have mentioned SignWriting (at www.signwriting.org) as a textual way of displaying ASL. The problem is less than a handful of people know SignWriting. Video of ASL is needed to make a true ASL wikipedia
True, but SignWriting + video is definitely better than a fork of English Wikipedia + video.
On 9/14/05, HHamilto@doe.k12.ga.us HHamilto@doe.k12.ga.us wrote:
Some of you have mentioned SignWriting (at www.signwriting.org) as a textual way of displaying ASL. The problem is less than a handful of people know SignWriting. Video of ASL is needed to make a true ASL wikipedia
As said before, I would not consider that a 'true wikipedia'. The editability of such a Wikipedia would be close to zero (either leave it as it is or completely do it over), and as such it would be non-wiki in my opinion.
Andre Engels
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