[Wikipedia-l] new request for ASL/English wikipedia (Neil Harris)

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski]

On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 09:49:01AM +0200, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> > ASL is most certainly a first-class language, but it _must be written_
> > to be usable in a text-based system like Wikipedia.
> >
> Where does it say in the goals of the WMF that everything is to be text 
> based? It says that we are "dedicated to encouraging the growth, 
> development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to 
> providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public 
> free of charge." Not even the Wiki principles make it compulsary to be 
> text based.

Do you know of any wiki-like system that is not text-based ?
It's a very serious technical, not ideological, problem.