<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">SignWriting List<div class="">September 28, 2016</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">WikiConference 2016 in San Diego, California</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><b class=""></b><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(47, 85, 160);" class=""><b class="">Come to a Presentation in ASL & English</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(47, 85, 160);" class=""><b class="">by the Deaf Action Committee for SignWriting (the DAC)</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><b class=""></b><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">“Writing the American Sign Language Wikipedia on Incubator”</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><b class=""></b><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(220, 56, 53);" class=""><b class="">Sunday, OCTOBER 9, 2016 at 3:30pm</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(220, 56, 53);" class=""><b class="">San Diego Central Public Library</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(220, 56, 53);" class=""><b class="">Clark Room, Floor 1</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(220, 56, 53);" class=""><b class="">330 Park Blvd., San Diego, CA 92101</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Minion Pro'; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Minion Pro'; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Presented in American Sign Language by 3 native-ASL Deaf Wiki-contributors: Adam Frost, Jason Nesmith and Holly Sharer.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">This is an historic presentation, since it is the first time in history that American Sign Language, or any sign language, can be written in a Wikipedia, written in the handshapes, movements, and facial expressions of sign languages, using the SignWriting Script.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><b class="">ADAM FROST</b>, Deaf ASL Teacher and Linguist, will tell the story of how he founded the American Sign Language Wikipedia, using the specialized software developed by Stephen E Slevinski Jr, and will explain that the first attempt at an ASL Wikipedia was made possible by a donation of server space on Wikimedia Labs and later on Wikimedia Incubator. As the first Deaf ASL Editor, Adam translated the Wikipedia menus from English to ASL using “Translate Wiki”. Adam contributed the first ASL article in the ASL Wikipedia: “Charles-Michel de l’Épée” and he continues to edit articles and gives tech support to new ASL writers.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><b class="">JASON NESMITH</b>, Deaf 3D Artist, Animator and Graphics Designer, is contributing 4 articles to the ASL Wikipedia: “Elon Musk”, “Star Wars”, “3-D Printers” and “Walt Disney”. Jason will explain how he learned SignWriting and why he is excited to write Wikipedia articles for the Deaf Community and to animate them as well.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><b class="">HOLLY SHARER</b>, Deaf Psychologist and Artist, is contributing three ASL articles in the ASL Wikipedia: “Salvador Dali”, “Picasso”, and “Thailand”. Holly lived and worked with Deaf people in Thailand and Cambodia, which makes her contributions to the ASL Wikipedia even more meaningful.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">This is a lively presentation in ASL with English/ASL interpreters. The audience can ask questions of the presenters. The inventor of the SignWriting Script, <b class="">Valerie Sutton</b>, and the developer of the software used to write Wikipedia articles in SignWriting, <b class="">Stephen E Slevinski Jr</b>, will be present to take questions as well. Nancy Fray Romero's 48 articles will also be shown.</span></div></div></body></html>________________________________________________
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