[Foundation-l] Signal languages Wikimedia projects

[Casey Brown]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Crazy Lover
> <always_yours.forever at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I realise that proposal for a Wikipedia in American Sign Language has remained without a decision since 2007 february 15th, more than a year and half.
>>
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_American_Sign_Language_2
>> Current policy don't say anything about those:
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Language_proposal_policy
>> But, community draft expressly accept them:
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Language_proposal_policy/Community_draft
>> What about you, do you think wikimedia, should be deprived of these potential resources?
>> C.m.l.
>>
>
> It's great that we have people to do this, but it's currently not
> *technically* possible to do it.  Until a technical solution becomes
> available and is enabled on Wikimedia sites, we can't do this.
>

See this section for discussion about this:
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_American_Sign_Language_2#Format>.
 It seems that it's not anyone's fault, they just need to figure out
what form first.  Then, we need a bug to get that capability enabled
on Wikimedia wikis.

-- 
Casey Brown
Cbrown1023

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