[Wikipedia-l] new request for ASL/English wikipedia

Andrew Gray shimgray at gmail.com
Thu Sep 8 19:41:45 UTC 2005


On 08/09/05, Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
> HHamilto at doe.k12.ga.us wrote:
> > I am writing to request the establishment of an American Sign
> > Language-English bilingual Wikipedia. This will contain the written word
> > versions of articles (Englsih) and American Sign Language versions via
> > video. We have a dozen users ready to start building this powerful resource
> > for deaf users and will be recruiting more.
> 
> There is no software to support such a thing at present.

Surely it would operate much as the various "spoken wikipedia"
projects do currently? Though, on reading [[m:Video policy]] I note
there are some technical limitations; the 2mb filesize cap would
probably come into play for a video of any length.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk



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