[Wikimediaau-l] adopting a language project

[Gnangarra]

Maybe a request to the Greenspun project for some animated gifs.

The question would what would be appropriate to be signed and how to get the
visuals to the person doing the work, any thoughts Brianna?



2008/11/4 Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com>

> I think Auslan is the most obvious WM-AU language to support - even before
> "languages in our neighbourhood" like Indonesian etc.
>
> However - how do we practically represent a sign language on a Wiki? I've
> no idea how about you going about doing that... I know it has been discussed
> in relation to Amercian Sign Language - but I still don't know how it's
> visualised, edited...
>
> -Liam
>
>
> On 11/4/08, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 2008/11/4 Peter Halasz <qubero at gmail.com>:
>> > Tetum does sound like a good idea. For the sake of brainstorming I've
>> listed
>> > some other languages here...
>> >
>> > Just as a point of reference, the most common languages spoken at home
>> in
>> > Australia are English (80%), Chinese (2.1%), Italian (1.9%), and Greek
>> > (1.4%), Arabic, Serbian, French, Spanish, German, Macedonian, Croatian,
>> > Polish, Turkish, Indigenous languages, Hindi, Maltese, Netherlandic,
>> > Tagalog.
>> >
>> > Focusing on refugees to Australia (offshore humanitarian visa grants
>> > 2007-08):
>> > Top Ten Countries of Birth [1]: Burma/Myanmar (Burmese), Iraq,
>> Afghanistan,
>> > Sudan, Liberia, Congo (DRC), Burundi, Iran, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka.
>> >
>> > And there's also another Australian language, which only has loose ties
>> with
>> > English, and happens to be only language other than English I can hold a
>> > conversation in. Auslan could make an interesting Wiktionary project.
>> It's
>> > in the same family as British Sign Language, but not related to American
>> > sign language (ASL).
>>
>> Nice idea!  Do we have a userboxen for Auslan?  I am Auslan-1 and have
>> certificate to prove it!! hehe
>>
>> It has a language code, and 6,500 native speakers (atw) and a
>> population of 14,000 according to Ethnologue.
>>
>> http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=asf
>>
>>
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>>
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