[Foundation-l] Signal languages Wikimedia projects

[Chad]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> When people claim that deaf people are able to read and write in the
> "dominant" language, they forget that this has never been a reason to deny
> people their Wikipedia in their language. We do allow people who speak a
> native American language their projects. Sign languages are as different
> from the "dominant" language as native American languages are from Spanish,
> Portuguese or English.


However, we do have a policy (for better or worse) that currently states
that:
"The proposal has a sufficient number of living native speakers to form a
viable
community and audience." [1]

I've yet to see any information indicating that SignWriting is a primary
mode
of communication for large groups of people, much less their native method
of communication.

-Chad

[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Language_proposal_policy#Requisites