Using Wiki based software to update SignWriting usage

Mon Jun 8 18:05:32 UTC 2009

SignWriting List
June 8, 2009

Hello Gerard!
Thank you for this message and suggestion. It sounds like a great idea  
to have a wiki where people can place their own information...I agree!

I am sure that will happen sooner or later...thanks for informing me  
and I will talk to Steve about it, who is working very hard behind the  
scenes to finish some major software development - so in a few months  
we will probably be in a different much-more-expansive place than  
where we are now...the future is very very bright indeed...

and thanks for offering to help...I am not sure what is best...I would  
not be able to do more than I am doing right now as I have prior  
committments...but maybe in a couple of weeks we could work together  
on it...

Many thanks Gerard -

And have a great day!

Val ;-)

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On Jun 8, 2009, at 9:45 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:

> Hoi,
> It is a great idea to have a list of having a list with  
> organisations that use SignWriting. It is cool to know for what sign  
> language they use SignWriting. The best way forward is for you to  
> start this list and for people to update this list themselves. The  
> software to do this; it could be a wiki...
>
> There are two reasons for you to have a wiki; one is that others can  
> do this and thereby free you to do your job. The other reason is  
> that it is your intention to have a Wiki anyway; it is why it is on  
> Steve's list to finish the MediaWiki extension. Having your own wiki  
> would make you more comfortable with doing things the wiki way.
>
> If you need some help setting up a wiki, let me know :)
> Thanks,
>      Gerard
>
> 2009/6/8 Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org>
> SignWriting List
> June 8, 2009
>
> Hello Lucy in Poland, and Maria in Malta!
>
> Lucy....THANK YOU for helping us get started with the listing "Who  
> Uses SignWriting in 2009"...
>
> Our SignWriting web sites need to be updated in all areas, and the  
> "Who Uses SignWriitng" area is the most important area...so I need  
> to focus on several countries and one of them is Poland...thank you  
> for your documents you sent me and I will post them...plus I would  
> like to post the information you mention below in some way...
>
> I am very impressed with your SignWriting usage in Poland...at a  
> Deaf Institute (school), at a University, and used by  
> individuals...and several theses that use or discuss  
> SignWriting...quite wonderful to see it spread like that...
>
> So Maria in Malta, Lucy just gave you information from Poland...that  
> is a great beginning...
>
> Val ;-)
>
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>
>
>
> On Jun 8, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Lucy wrote:
>
> Who uses SignWriting in Poland?
>
> University of Warsaw, Department of Polish -> students (from  
> different majors) of Polish Sign Language courses and students of  
> Postgraduate Polish Sign Langauge Studies
>
> Instytut Gluchoniemych (Institute of the Deaf and Dumb - a Deaf  
> education center with such a historical name) - > some junior high  
> school students and her tutor, Dr Iwona Grzesiak
>
> A few individuals, like me and some of my colleagues, for research  
> and educational purposes.
>
> There may be also people using SW I don't know about.
> I know there is one student at the Warsaw Uniwersytet Kardynala  
> Stefana Wyszynskiego who writes her MA thesis on SignWriting.
>
> Lucy
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Valerie Sutton" <sutton at signwriting.org 
> >
> To: "SignWriting List" <sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
> Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 5:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [sw-l] SignWriting in Universities/Institutions
>
>
> SignWriting List
> June 8, 2009
>
> On Jun 8, 2009, at 2:20 AM, MARIA AZZOPARDI wrote:
> Does anyone have a list of/ or know of any Universities/Institutions
> across the globe, where SignWriting has been adopted either in   
> research
> related to sign linguistics (where signwriting is used for  
> transcriptions
> of data; compiltations of dictinaries etc), or in research related to
> Education - where SignWriting has been adopted as a tool in the  
> Education
> for the Deaf? Many thanks, Maria
>
> Hello Maria and Everyone!
>
> Years ago, I made the kind of listing you mention...and placed the  
> listing on the web...but then overtime, the listing became out of   
> date, so I need to create a new current listing for you...
>
> I can create a listing that shows the dates that it was used, but  
> here  is the REAL problem...I don't know who is using SignWriting  
> around the world!
>
> There are literally hundreds of groups as far as I can guess,  
> judging  by my experiences...and most people do not join the  
> SignWriting List,  nor do they inform me personally, which is  
> perfectly fine! No one is  required to inform me or anyone else,  
> since SignWriting is free to use  all over the world...
>
> So how do I know about any group using SignWriting? Some, like you,  
> do participate with our List and with me...but other times, I bump  
> into a SignWriting project that I did not know about, on the  
> internet, or someone tells me later about their work with a  
> group...it is an  amazing feeling to realize that it is spreading  
> like that...thank  goodness.
>
> Once I met a teacher of the Deaf who said she used SignWriting a   
> little in her classroom, and the teacher sort of put down their  
> usage,  like it wasn't important...she then proceeds to show me   
> piles....literally hundreds of hand written pages of SignWriting   
> documents written by her students...it was amazing and  
> wonderful...But  she would not give me permission to let me use her  
> name or to make  copies of her students' writing...so I would not be  
> allowed to list  her classroom on the internet...so getting  
> permission to make such a  list is also a problem for me sometimes...
>
> So the problem is that I am not sure which current research groups  
> are using SignWriting, but over the week here I will try to create  
> a  little list for you...
>
> If there are groups here on the List that use SignWriting like Maria  
> describes above, please tell us!
>
> Val ;-)
>
>
>
> Valerie Sutton
> Sutton at SignWriting.org
>
> 1. SignWriting
> Read & Write Sign Languages
> http://www.SignWriting.org
>
> 2. SignPuddle
> Create SignWriting Documents Online
> http://www.SignBank.org/signpuddle
>
> 3. SignBank
> SignWriting Desktop Databases
> http://www.SignBank.org
>
> 4. SignWriting List
> Technical Support: Ask questions to the List
> http://www.SignWriting.org/forums/swlist
>
> 5. SignWriting Literature Project
> Writing Literature in Sign Languages
> http://www.SignWriting.org/literature
>
> Deaf Action Committee For SignWriting
> Center For Sutton Movement Writing
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