<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Do you want us to all work on the same document, or each take one? <br><br>You mention working in short clips... Do you mean like I am doing with Cat in the Hat? I do about 4 lines at a time for that, but for this it would probably be one sentence at a time?<br><br>cherie<br><br><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Valerie Sutton <signwriting@MAC.COM><br>To: sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu<br>Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 8:37:59 PM<br>Subject: Re: [sw-l] Wikipedia American Sign Language<br><br><div>SignWriting List<br>April 21, 2007<br><br>Hello Pharos!<br>Thanks for this message...see mine below...<br><br>Pharos
wrote:<br>> Val, it's great to see your progress on this. I wish I could help but<br>> unfortunately I'm ignorant of both ASL and Signwriting. But I might<br>> be able to point you to some good ideas for translation.<br>><br>> Wikipedia's best articles are called "featured articles":<br>><br>> <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles</a><br>><br>> You might pick one of these to translate, or at least to translate a<br>> portion of an article. A good start would be to translate just the<br>> introductory section, which is supposed to be a neat summary of the<br>> whole article. It might be a good idea to pick an article that<br>> doesn't use too many specialized terms, and that isn't likely to be<br>> controversial.<br><br>Ha! Yes. Not too controversial would be good! And this is a
good <br>lead. Thanks for this. A summary is a great idea.<br><br>At first I thought maybe we should write an article about a Deaf hero <br>or heroine...A famous successful Deaf person who might be mentioned <br>in Wikipedia...<br><br>So Adam and Cherie and anyone else who has volunteered, can you <br>choose the article to translate? Go to:<br><br><a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/">http://en.wikipedia.org/</a><br><br>and search for a topic, like:<br><br>American Sign Language<br>or<br>Gallaudet University<br>or<br>something with no connection to deafness!<br>or<br>whatever you wish...<br><br>and decide yourselves on the article you wish to be the first example <br>of an encyclopedic article written in ASL...something we can show to <br>the world as the first article in an ASL Encyclopedia...<br><br>Then you need to decide together who will take which paragraph to <br>translate and
write in SignText...<br><br>Then start adding it, in short clips, one document after the other, <br>in the ASL Literature Puddle online. We can also make a separate <br>Puddle just for the encyclopedia work...I will do that later today <br>for you...<br><br>Write again when you have chosen the article you will start with!<br><br>Val ;-)<br><br><br><br><br></div></div><br></div></div><br>
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