<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>August 25, 2012</div><div><br></div><div>Hello Maria and everyone -</div><div><br></div><div>Yes, that is correct. SignWriting is up and running on a Wikimedia Labs server without the need for Unicode, thanks to Steve's SignWriting MediaWiki Plugin (SWMP). The SWMP provides other features too…besides breaking the Unicode barrier… While ASL writers are adding articles to the new ASL Wikipedia, Steve, in the background, is working on new features that may possibly include searching the ASL Wikipedia the way we can search SignPuddle…for example, Search by Symbol Frequency, Search by Symbols and so forth…Other Wikipedias do not have such unusual features… And Adam is translating the User Interface into ASL right now...so there is development going on in the background, while new articles can be added any time….</div><div><br></div><div>I hope you all will visit and join the ASL Wikipedia Project - There is a Login area at the top right when you enter. Click on "create account"…Create your own User ID…You all will be very welcome…in time this will grow and will be as fun as SignPuddle!</div><div><br></div><div>And by the way, we are hoping to have Wikipedias in other sign languages too, so who knows? maybe there will be a Maltese Sign Language Wikipedia Project someday!</div><div><br></div><div>Val ;-)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><img height="135" width="155" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" id="1cae2f4a-4dc9-4a33-8405-6d254102a8ab" src="cid:24F53B76-23FB-4795-A546-93999DBDFFF9"></div><div><br></div><div>ASL Wikipedia Project on Wikimedia Labs</div><div><a href="http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org">http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org</a></div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br><div><div>On Aug 25, 2012, at 4:42 AM, MARIA GALEA wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Am very happy to hear about this development - seems like you are skipping<br>over the Unicode barrier! :) Nothing can stop a strong will :))<br>Maria<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">SignWriting List<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">August 23, 2012<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Dear SW List Members...<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">This is a very exciting and historic time. For years, Steve Slevinski has<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">worked on developing a way for Wikipedia articles to be written in the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">SignWriting script. The result is the SignWriting MediaWiki Plugin (SWMP).<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">And now we know it is working, because the Wikimedia Foundation, and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Wikimedia Labs has provided space on their server for us to test it. And<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">although there is more software development to be completed, nonetheless,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Adam Frost composed and posted the first article for the new ASL Wikipedia<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">located on Wikimedia Labs!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">So the new project is still in the "test stage", but we are adding<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">articles while Steve and other technicians work on the technical software<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">aspects in the background. Once we have a good number of articles for<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">readers to enjoy, our test ASL Wikipedia will be reviewed and then we<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">hope, someday, it will be approved to become an "official Wikipedia". That<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">has not happened yet, but we are working towards that goal.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">We are very happy to have this gift of server space and encouragement from<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the Wikimedia Foundation and Labs, and from Wikipedia users around the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">world�Thank you!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">So witness history in the making...<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ASL Wikipedia Project on Wikimedia Labs<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org">http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>