Wikipedia American Sign Language

[Bill Reese]

Or perhaps the article on SignWriting?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SignWriting

Bill

Pharos wrote:
> Val, it's great to see your progress on this.  I wish I could help but
> unfortunately I'm ignorant of both ASL and Signwriting.  But I might
> be able to point you to some good ideas for translation.
>
> Wikipedia's best articles are called "featured articles":
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles
>
> You might pick one of these to translate, or at least to translate a
> portion of an article.  A good start would be to translate just the
> introductory section, which is supposed to be a neat summary of the
> whole article.  It might be a good idea to pick an article that
> doesn't use too many specialized terms, and that isn't likely to be
> controversial.
>
> On 4/20/07, Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org> wrote:
>> SignWriting List
>> April 20, 2007
>>
>> Hello SW List Members!
>>
>> As you all know, recently there has been interest in creating a
>> possible ASL Wikipedia, or at least, the beginning of writing an
>> Encyclopedia in ASL...
>>
>> Since we are new to writing and posting documents on the web, in our
>> SignPuddle 1.5 Literature Puddle online, I realize that this is a
>> very big leap forward, to start writing encyclopedia articles in ASL!
>>
>> To write such an article, we would need to either choose an article
>> already written in another encyclopedia, and then translate it from
>> English to ASL and then write it in SignWriting in SignText...
>>
>> or...
>>
>> write it directly from our own knowledge of physics, or geography or
>> whatever the article is about!
>>
>> This seems like a big new project, doesn't it?
>>
>> Sooo...here is my thought...
>>
>> Do we have volunteers to help us write one test-article for a new
>> encyclopedia written in ASL?
>>
>> It will be our FIRST article for an encyclopedia in ASL...like a test
>> drive. Then we can show the document to those at Wikimedia and to
>> others too...It will be an historic and interesting adventure...
>>
>> I know many of you are already overloaded with projects, so only
>> volunteer if you feel you have the time. We could create an
>> Encylopedia team of writers, and each person could take a small
>> section of the translation and writing...
>>
>> And there is no rush and no deadline.
>>
>> Plus we need to choose the one article we want to write...
>>
>> But before we choose the article, is there anyone interested in
>> volunteering to write an article for an Encyclopedia?
>>
>> Once we have a few volunteers, I will write to the Wikimedia language
>> committee to suggest that maybe they can choose one article for us to
>> translate from the Wikipedia in English online...
>>
>> Those are my thoughts...
>>
>> What are yours?
>>
>> Val ;-)
>>
>>
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