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

[Gerard Meijssen]

Brion Vibber 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.
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

Hoi,
I like to remind you that Kennisnet offered to host streaming content 
for the WMF. We have not taken them up on that one yet because so far 
*we* felt no need. When we want to investigate the possibilities of 
hosting videos containing sign languages, it is something we should at 
least investigate a but. I have cc-d Jan-Bart of Kennisnet and I also 
copied Wolfgang Georgsdorf who spoke about Wikisign on Wikimania and 
with whom I worked towards including signlanguages in the Ultimate 
Wiktionary.

Thanks,
    GerardM