SignWriting on "not the wikipedia weekly"

Tue Nov 4 18:46:40 UTC 2008

Hi Valerie.  Would love to do an episode completely devoted to SignWriting.
Thinking about formats for that.

One would be to hold the chat in our usual voice format and find someone
who's willing to transcribe to text.
Another would be to conduct the session as a text chat.  Skype has both text
and voice capacity.

If you or someone from the SignWriting list has other ideas better tailored
to your needs, please share them and I'll do my best to set that up for you.

We held our first episode as WikiVoices yesterday: wrote an article for
Wikinews that quickly became the site's top story.

Here's the link to WikiVoices:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiVoices#Wikinews

Please share the word with your community and select a time and date.

Best,
Lise
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Valerie Sutton <signwriting at mac.com> wrote:

> SignWriting ListNovember 4, 2008
>
> Hello Gerard and all!
> I just listened to the entire podcast program meeting on the "Not the
> Wikipedia Weekly" program.
>
> The audio file is located on this site:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ntww35.ogg
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NotTheWikipediaWeekly
>
>
> This is my summary...I am sure I will not explain everything properly, but
> here is what I remember from what i heard...
>
> It was very pleasant and fun....a conversation in English with people from
> several countries, including the UK and Gerard from the Netherlands. They
> discussed the fact that the name  "Not the Wikipedia Weekly" will be
> re-named as "WikiVoices". They also discussed how to type and write in
> Wiki-based sites...for example, there are articles written in Wikipedia that
> are not the best quality, and so they discussed the editing process of
> Wikipedia articles...and they felt that it is a little bit "locked" now that
> it has become so big that the editing process has to be reviewed so it is
> not locked, but still not have bad articles...because some good articles are
> being edited out, and that is frustrating writers...deletionists and
> inclusionists were discussed...they feel that they need to be more welcoming
> for countries outside the western world...that there might be a
> bias...should be tighter with western topics and more open to topics from
> the eastern countries...there is cultural bias that needs to be
> corrected..."Did You Know?" (DYK) is an article on Wikipedia that lists new
> articles just entered...nice "thank you" to the writers of new
> articles...DYK is there for a few hours only on the front page of the
> Wikipedia site to inform new readers of new articles...the reward for
> writing a good article is to get a spot on the main page of Wikipedia in Did
> You Know?...
>
> Then they talked about SignWriting...Gerard explained what it was to the
> group....he explained that Val and Steve informed him that the SignWriting
> MediaWiki Plugin is now in alpha...Gerard did a great job discussing the
> idea that now Sign Languages can be written, in vertical columns...and
> Gerard discussed how do you place a photograph in the middle of a Wiki-based
> article written in SignWriting in vertical columns?...and then they
> discussed Unicode briefly and that now we can write SignWriting in the
> SignWriting MediaWiki Plugin...there are hundreds of Sign Languages that
> will someday have their own Wikipedia and that now we have a request for the
> American Sign Language version...then another speaker said it really "blew
> his mind" to realize that the Sign Languages can be written...that it helps
> with education and raises visibility for Sign Language in the world...and
> Gerard said that SignWriting is taught in some schools but not in
> others...it allows signers to read and write in their own daily
> language...when you learn to read and write in your mother tongue then we
> all do better in life ...and they talked about the California based
> non-profit organization...and Gerard suggested that they go to
> SignWriting.org....people said it was a fascinating topic and Gerard said
> that he felt that it will happen more and more now...
>
> Then they moved on to other topics
>
> So that is my summary of what I heard on the program...
>
> THANK YOU Gerard, for your presentation on the program....You did a great
> job explaining it....and thank you for inviting us to participate on another
> program...we look forward to it!
>
> Val ;-)
>
> Valerie Sutton
> Sutton at SignWriting.org
>
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>
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>
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>
>
> On Nov 4, 2008, at 7:41 AM, Valerie Sutton wrote:
>
> SignWriting ListNovember 4, 2008
>
> Hello Gerard!
> Thank you for informing us about the "Not the Wikipedia Weekly". That is a
> great name! I visited the site and as far as I understand it, it is like a
> radio program...and audio program...about news on Wikipedia-related topics.
> I look forward to listening to the whole program shortly...
>
> And I look forward to the SignWriting portion at the end of the
> program...so I will write again after I have listened to it...too bad our
> Deaf List members cannot listen to it, but I will write again with a summary
> of what is said, for the List...
>
> And yes, of course Steve and I will be delighted to be a part of a future
> episode! Thank you for inviting us to speak. Let's setup an appointment...
>
> "Wikivoices" is a good name! Maybe someday, you can have a visual American
> Sign Language version as well ;-))
>
> Steve tells me that the SignWriting MediaWiki Plugin has been downloaded 6
> times so far.  Steve is curious if we'll get any feedback. Feedback is very
> welcome...
>
> I will write again with a list of possible questions and maybe the List
> members can help me finalize the list of questions for you...
>
> More soon -
>
> Val ;-)
>
> Valerie Sutton
> Sutton at SignWriting.org
>
>
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>
>
> On Nov 4, 2008, at 12:22 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
>
> Hoi,
> With pleasure I may inform you that the latest episode of "Not the
> Wikipedia Weekly", a podcast with news about all things wiki does include a
> sizeable portion about SignWriting at the end. It starts round about the
> 15th minute of the cast. Now I am not really an expert on the subject on
> sign languages and SignWriting and we talked after the recording about it
> some more. We think that it would be great to have an episode just about
> SignWriting and the request for an American Sign Language Wikipedia.
>
> We have invited Valerie and Steve to be part of this future episode and it
> would be cool to have your questions about Wikipedia and Wikipedia for sign
> languages. So let us have your questions so that this episode may even more
> relevant and interesting..
>
> NB as we are giving "not the Wikipedia Weekly" more of a meta approach, the
> project will be renamed to "Wikivoices"
>
> Thanks,
>        Gerard
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ntww35.ogg
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NotTheWikipediaWeekly
>
>
>
>

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