AW: [sw-l] SignPuddle - how to change a given sign

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
March 5, 2005

Dear SignWriting List, and Anny!!
Thank you for this question. Did you know, that in German-Switzerland,
Dr. Penny Boyes Braem and I have been working together to write a grant
for a new SignBank web site? It would work like this:

1. SignPuddle will remain the FREE online dictionary, that is also open
to anyone adding signs...just as it is now.

BUT...

2. We will also offer official SIGNBANKS...those are dictionaries
online that have been created by one group privately, with video and
all the signs written in SignWriting and the general public will be
able to benefit from these dictionaries, but will not be able to add
signs to them...they will be stable dictionaries that are created by a
private research group...

3. The private research groups will have their own private web areas to
do their dictionary editing, to create number 2 above...

...So when you visit the SignBank web site someday, you will be able to
enter into three different doors...

... SignPuddle Public Dictionaries
...The official SignBanks for Sign Languages all over the world, that
include video and cannot be changed
... A private Dictionary Editors section for those research groups who
are creating number 2...the official SignBanks...

So you can see that your friends, Anny, were thinking of the latter
two...but we need to keep the first one, SignPuddle, open to the
general public to add signs to it, because people need to become
inspired and how will they know if they want to do the more serious
dictionary building if they do not try it first?

Now...the one catch is that is costs us a lot of money to do this big
job of having three different sections to the SignBank web site, and so
Penny is helping me write a grant to help pay for all this...If your
group wants to have a private SignBank before we get the funding from a
grant, then they could pay a fee and we will create their private
editing area immediately for them...

Meanwhile, SignPuddle will always be free and you can continue forever
the way you have been doing it right now, if you wish -

Hope this helps...Talk to Penny about all this - she can tell you more!!

Val ;-)

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On Mar 5, 2005, at 12:27 PM, Anne-Claude Prélaz Girod wrote:

> Stephen
>
> I worked with the group of persons who all had a introduction course
> on SW today... we have meetings every six weeks... and try to practice
> Sw together... there were a few questions about SignPuddle...:
>
> is there a way we could see that an item into the dictionnary is not
> "acceptped" by the group... they don't like the idea of anyone being
> able to write anything in the dictionnary...
> I told them about my role (as an editor) to check the dictionnary...
> take away wrong signs... or correct.... but, as a hearing... my
> intention was to share with the group (deaf and hearing partifipants)
> before deciding of the best way to write down a sign... as we only
> meet once in a while... some "wrong signs" might stay inthe dictonnary
> for a long time... and it might get people confused!!!
>
> Is there any way one could see that an added sign has been accepted
> (and by extension... that a new sign still has to be approved??) maybe
> using colour... or a code, ...
>
> They ask if only the participants could have a access code to get into
> the SignMaker.... any one of you did have such problems ??
> I think it's important than anyone can access SignMaker... but also
> understand their point of view... they don'nt want wrong stuff to stay
> in the dictionnary for a long time!!
>
> Another question...: is there a way to send mail to more than one
> person at a time... into SignMail ??
>
> Thanks for letting me know!
>
> we still have problems about english... I tod them tha tw should think
> of symbols for every button... in LSF Swiss french... we'll do that
> next time we meet and I'll send it to Valerie (Valerie I did send you
> the french words already... I'll add the sign into signpuddle for
> every button... and let you know once I'M done!)
>
>
> Anny
> Le 3 mars 05, à 23:45, Stephen Slevinski a écrit :
>
>> Hi Anny,
>>
>> This is an image caching problem.  Pressing Refresh on the browser
>> will
>> force the browser to retrieve the new image for house.  I've know
>> about this
>> for a while.  Sorry I haven't fixed it yet.
>>
>> The details...
>> Your browser caches the image of house.  When you delete house, the
>> browser
>> still has the image cached.  When you rename house_2 to house, the
>> browser
>> is displaying the image that is has cached.  Pressing refresh will
>> force the
>> browser to get the new image for house from the server.
>>
>> -Stephen
>>
>>
>>
>
>