[Foundation-l] Signal languages Wikimedia projects

[Crazy Lover]

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From: Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 7:26:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Signal languages Wikimedia projects

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

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
>>>
The community draft of Language proposal policy replace the current requisite for this:
"The proposal has a sufficient worldwide number of people able to express themselves at a fluent level, in the written, spoken or signed form, to form a viable community and audience".[1]
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Language_proposal_policy/Community_draft#Requisites


It eliminates the controversy if a sign language is or not a native method of communication.
C.m.l.