<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>I read that fingerspelling as W I K I P S D I A...<br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Valerie Sutton <signwriting@MAC.COM><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, October 9, 2012 12:35 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: ASL Wikipedia has a Twitter account ;-)<br> </font> </div> <br><div
id="yiv153258425"><base><div>SignWriting List<div>October 9, 2012</div><div><br></div><div>Hello Stefan and everyone -</div><div>Thank you for this message. Great to hear from you.</div><div><br></div><div>I do not understand the marketing aspects of Twitter either, but I know that my friend worked hard at setting this Twitter account up for us, to help us find funding for the ASL Wikipedia Project, so I am grateful for the help.</div><div><br></div><div>Everyone is most welcome to post messages about spelling issues any time - Your feedback and questions are always welcome, and are good for all of us, so please feel free, Stefan and everyone, to post your questions or responses to anything that is written…</div><div><br></div><div>That a is a good question about this logo and the SignWriting written there, Stefan. Adam Frost designed the logo in SignWriting, based on the English version of the same logo. As you know, the logo is owned by the
Wikimedia Foundation, that founded Wikipedia. So their original logo say this…</div><div><br></div><div>Go to:</div><div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.wikipedia.org/">http://www.wikipedia.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div>You can see the wording under each language. In English it is "The Free Encyclopedia" and the German is "Die free Enzykloädie". We were asked to provide an ASL translation of that line and create the ASL version of the logo. </div><div><br></div><div>Here is a screen capture:</div><div><br></div><div><img id="yiv15325842500a9c840-39bb-4efb-a646-e601f87f83dc" src="cid:1.977948454@web31813.mail.mud.yahoo.com" height="357" width="554"></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>So, Adam Frost did the artwork and the writing in ASL.</div><div><br></div><img id="yiv15325842500736863-1585-4133-83a2-50fd12595e37" src="cid:2.977948454@web31813.mail.mud.yahoo.com" height="135"
width="155"><span class="yiv153258425Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium;"><span class="yiv153258425Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span class="yiv153258425Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><div><span class="yiv153258425Apple-style-span"
style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span class="yiv153258425Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span class="yiv153258425Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span class="yiv153258425Apple-style-span"
style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span class="yiv153258425Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span class="yiv153258425Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span class="yiv153258425Apple-style-span"
style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><div><div><div><span class="yiv153258425Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span class="yiv153258425Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium;"><div><span class="yiv153258425Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0,
0);font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium;"><span class="yiv153258425Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium;"><span class="yiv153258425Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium;"><span class="yiv153258425Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0,
0);font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium;"><span class="yiv153258425Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium;"><span class="yiv153258425Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium;"><span class="yiv153258425Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0,
0);font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium;"><div><div><div><span class="yiv153258425Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium;"><span class="yiv153258425Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium;"><span class="yiv153258425Apple-style-span"
style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium;"><span class="yiv153258425Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium;"><span class="yiv153258425Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium;"><span class="yiv153258425Apple-style-span"
style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium;"><div><div><div><div><span class="yiv153258425Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium;"><span class="yiv153258425Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium;"><div><div><span
class="yiv153258425Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium;"><div><span class="yiv153258425Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0,
0);font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium;"></span></div></span></div></div></span></span></div></div></div></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></span></span></div></div></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></span></span></span><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Adam chose to write the W with a square base rather than the circle base…Is that what you are thinking of? Of course feel free to discuss this with everyone - The ASL writers who contribute articles to the ASL Wikipedia will, overtime, need to meet and come to a consensus on some ASL SignSpellings and standards for writing ASL, but at the moment we are just getting
started…smile….</div><div><br></div><div>I think the ASL Wikipedia Project is an outstanding way for ASL signers to come together to write and communicate how they feel ASL should be written - Thank you to everyone who has contributed articles…</div><div><br></div><div>I am so happy to know about your deaf students in Germany, Stefan - What an amazing story for the world - Your students are so successful with both spoken and sign language because of your work and I hope someday you too will have your own German Sign Language Wikipedia ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>Val ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>---------</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 9, 2012, at 8:06 AM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:</div><br class="yiv153258425Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;" lang="DE"><div class="yiv153258425Section1" style=""><div
style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;" lang="EN-GB">Hi Valerie and list –</span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;" lang="EN-GB">Would be an intersting idea to send messages with a little typo or different spelling from time to time to get feedback from people who are supposed to to be able to read SignWriting ...</span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"
lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;" lang="EN-GB">I try to understand the message – written next to the Wiki-logo does it say “free know Wikipedia” - in other words “Do you know the Wikipedia SignWriting project is for free” ...</span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;" lang="EN-GB">I followed the link and in both cases there is a typo in the fingerspelling of “Wikipedia” – perhaps the author wants to fix that – smile?</span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;" lang="EN-GB">I am not familiar with Twitter but I understand that this is also a way to promote the idea of the benefits of SignWriting.</span></font></div><div
style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;" lang="EN-GB">All I can say – again and again and again my deaf students take so tremendously advantage from the bilingual documents we create and read day by day. One of my students has got a hard time to read spoken language documents but the same boy iss able to read the “GebaerdenSchrift” documents so fluently that all of us cannot help but smile and laugh. And he is so motivated to catch up with reading spoken language...</span></font></div><div
style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;" lang="EN-GB">All best</span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="navy" face="Arial"
size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;" lang="EN-GB">Stefan</span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></div><div><div class="yiv153258425MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';text-align:center;" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><hr tabindex="-1" align="center" size="2"
width="100%"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold;" lang="EN-GB">Von:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma;" lang="EN-GB"><span class="yiv153258425Apple-converted-space"> </span>SignWriting List: Read and Write Sign Languages [mailto:SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU]<span class="yiv153258425Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Im Auftrag von<span class="yiv153258425Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b>Valerie Sutt</span></font><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma;">on<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Gesendet:</span></b><span class="yiv153258425Apple-converted-space"> </span>Dienstag, 9. Oktober
2012 16:04<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">An:</span></b><span class="yiv153258425Apple-converted-space"> </span><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU" target="_blank" href="mailto:SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline;">SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a><br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Betreff:</span></b><span class="yiv153258425Apple-converted-space"> </span>ASL Wikipedia has a Twitter account ;-)</span></font></div></div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">SignWriting
List</span></font></div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">October 9, 2012</span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Hello SignWriting List!</span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">
</span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">A friend of mine just gave our new ASL Wikipedia Project a Twitter account…. (big smile ;-)</span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">I am not sure how Twitter can help us, but it looks great!</span></font></div></div><div><div
style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></div></div><div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">ASLWikipedia on Twitter</span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="yiv153258425usercontent"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/ASLWikipedia/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline;">https://twitter.com/ASLWikipedia/</a></span></font></span></div></div><div><div
style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">We are trying to raise funds to help pay for software development and hopefully, someday, we might be able to hire ASL writers to be editors and to write lots of articles… This is a US national project. In time we hope to encourage Wikipedias in other sign languages and countries too, of course.</span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">
</span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Thank you to all the sign language writers in the world!</span></font></div></div><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;"> </span></font></div></div></div></div></div></span></span></div><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><div><div><div><div><div
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style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;">Valerie Sutton</span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;"><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:signwriting@mac.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:signwriting@mac.com" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline;">signwriting@mac.com</a></span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;"><a rel="nofollow"
target="_blank" href="http://www.signwriting.org/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline;">www.signwriting.org</a></span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;"> </span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;"><br><img id="yiv153258425eb27eb45-4082-480b-bf10-dadd7931e1c4" src="cid:3.977948455@web31813.mail.mud.yahoo.com" border="0" height="135" width="155"></span></font><span class="yiv153258425apple-style-span"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"></span></span></div><span
style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><div><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><div><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><div><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><div><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><div><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><div><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><div><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span
style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;"><br><br><br><br>ASL Wikipedia Project on Wikimedia Labs</span></font></div></div><div><div
style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline;">http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org</a></span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;"> </span></font></div></div></div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="yiv153258425apple-style-span"></span><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">
</span></font></div><div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;">ASL articles are translations of articles in the English Wikipedia:</span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;"> </span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;">1. Charles-Michel de l'Epee</span></font></div></div><div><div
style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org/wiki/Charles-Michel_de_l%27Epee" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline;">http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org/wiki/Charles-Michel_de_l%27Epee</a></span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;"> </span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;">2. Laurent Clerc</span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org/wiki/Laurent_Clerc" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline;">http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org/wiki/Laurent_Clerc</a></span></font></div></div></div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;"> </span></font></div></div><div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New
Roman';"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;">3. Alice Cogswell</span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org/wiki/Laurent_Clerc" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline;">http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org/wiki/Alice_Cogswell</a></span></font></div></div></div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;"> </span></font></div></div><div><div
style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;">4. City of Helen, Georgia</span></font></div></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div></div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org/wiki/Helen,_Georgia" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline;"></a></span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org/wiki/Helen,_Georgia"
style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline;">http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org/wiki/Helen,_Georgia</a></font></div></div></div></div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;"> </span></font></div></div></div></span></span></div></span></span></div></span></span></div></span></span></div></span></span></div></span></span></div></span></span></div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;"></span> </font></div></div></span></span><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New
Roman';"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;">ASLWikipedia on Twitter</span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="yiv153258425usercontent"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/ASLWikipedia/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline;">https://twitter.com/ASLWikipedia/</a></span></font></span><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;"></span></font></div></div></div></span></span></span></span></div></div></span></span></div></div><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><div
style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"> </span></span></font></div><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span
style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="orphans:2;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><img id="yiv1532584255aabf540-9537-401b-9a6f-7d9856b6a9c4" src="cid:4.977948455@web31813.mail.mud.yahoo.com" height="502" width="528"><img id="yiv153258425bb60f3e8-9be9-42dd-9871-635ce09a2e0d" src="cid:5.977948455@web31813.mail.mud.yahoo.com" height="393" width="389"></div></blockquote></div><br></div><br></div></div><br><br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>