I have sent in a reply to the Wikipedia. ;)<br><br>Adam<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Valerie Sutton</b> <<a href="mailto:signwriting@mac.com">signwriting@mac.com</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Mar 9, 2007, at 2:00 PM, Pharos wrote:<br>> I just wanted to clear this up. Wikipedia already has an article on
<br>> SignWriting, at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SignWriting">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SignWriting</a><br>><br>> What is being proposed is an entirely new Wikipedia, covering all the<br>> topics any encyclopedia would, in American Sign Language, just as
<br>> there are Wikipedias in French ( <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/">http://fr.wikipedia.org/</a> ) and<br>> Spanish ( <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/">http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/</a> ).<br>><br>> Please comment on the proposal page and sign up there if you are
<br>> interested in participating. It will only be created if a certain<br>> number of people written sign language-users express interest.<br>> Thanks.<br><br><br>---------------<br><br>Hello Pharos -<br><br>Are you asking us to write the Wikipedia in written American Sign
<br>Language in SignWriting? We can do that, and I would vote for that...<br><br>Signing up for it would mean that someone who knows American Sign<br>Language can write the articles in written SignWriting...and there<br>are skilled people who can do that ...
<br><br>We have new software too, SignPuddle 1.5, that can produce written<br>Sign Language Literature documents, and perhaps we can assist in<br>creating the web pages needed...Is that what you are talking about?<br>It is a huge job to translate a whole Wikipedia into any language,
<br>but it can be done ... we could start with a small portion of it and<br>go from there...<br><br>We have a little funding for producing written Sign Language<br>literature right now, and we could apply that towards writing some
<br>articles for an encyclopedia and use that as a springboard for doing<br>more work in the future...Does Wikipedia have funding to help us with<br>the translation process? Or perhaps we could write a grant together?<br>
<br>It would certainly be a very important historic event, to have an<br>entire encyclopedia written in the movements of American Sign Language!<br><br>I assume that Wikipedia can be written in Chinese and other<br>languages? So you are handling other written scripts other than the
<br>Roman alphabet? You mention Spanish and French below, but those<br>languages use the same Roman alphabet used to write English, but our<br>written ASL uses SignWriting symbols, as you know.<br><br>SignPuddle software can write email in SignWriting and literature in
<br>SignWriting...so we could work with your programmers to make sure<br>that our ASL encyclopedia would be something you can post with no<br>trouble...We are working towards the day when people can add their<br>own Sign Language literature on the web, so we could apply that to
<br>Wikipedia someday...so that others can post their own SignWriting<br>corrections and comments just as they do right now with the Roman<br>alphabet in other languages...<br><br>So I say YES to the proposal if Wikipedia is interested...
<br><br>I just went up on your web site on this link:<br><br>>> <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/</a><br>>> Wikipedia_American_Sign_Language_2
<br><br>I can see that SignWriting was discussed there...<br><br>I clicked on EDIT, but it looks like a huge job to do the editing and<br>I am on a deadline right now to finish our software by next week...so<br>I would be grateful if someone else could propose to use SignWriting
<br>to write an American Sign Language Wikipedia?...it could bring<br>SignWriting users funding for doing the translation and writing work...<br><br>Perhaps in April I can add to the Wikipedia voting page above...<br><br>
no matter what, please know we are interested...<br><br>And i hope someone on the SignWriting List can help too...go to the<br>above web page and click on the word EDIT in the corner to make your<br>statement that we could write Wikipedia in American Sign Language
<br>using SignWriting...<br><br>Many thanks!<br><br>Val ;-)<br><br><br>---------<br><br><br><br>><br>> On 3/9/07, Valerie Sutton <<a href="mailto:signwriting@mac.com">signwriting@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> SignWriting List
<br>>> March 9, 2007<br>>><br>>> Can anyone write an article about SignWriting for Wikipedia's new<br>>> section on American Sign Language?...Here is a message I just<br>>> received:<br>>>
<br>>> --------<br>>><br>>> From: <a href="mailto:pharosofalexandria@gmail.com">pharosofalexandria@gmail.com</a><br>>> Subject: Encyclopedia in American Sign Language<br>>> Date: March 9, 2007 1:28:29 PM PST
<br>>> To: <a href="mailto:Sutton@SignWriting.org">Sutton@SignWriting.org</a><br>>><br>>> You may be familiar with Wikipedia, the free volunteer-written<br>>> encyclopedia, which exists in many languages. The English Wikipedia
<br>>> is at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/">http://en.wikipedia.org/</a><br>>><br>>> There is currently a proposal for a Wikipedia in American Sign<br>>> Language, and I thought that the members of the SignWriting community
<br>>> should be aware of this.<br>>><br>>> The proposal is here:<br>>> <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/
</a><br>>> Wikipedia_American_Sign_Language_2<br>>><br>>> It would be great if you could share this information on SignWriting<br>>> forums and mailing lists, and please comment at the proposal page
<br>>> (just click "edit").<br>>><br>>> I am not a sign language user myself, but I thought I could help in<br>>> informing you of this proposal. Feel free to ask me if you have any<br>>> general questions relating to what Wikipedia is or how it works.
<br>>><br>>> Thank you<br>>><br>>><br>>><br><br></blockquote></div><br>