NEW! ASL Wikipedia Project on Wikimedia Labs

[Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway]

How exciting! Congratulations!

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Valerie Sutton <signwriting at mac.com>wrote:

> SignWriting List
> August 23, 2012
>
> Dear SW List Members...
>
> This is a very exciting and historic time. For years, Steve Slevinski has
> worked on developing a way for Wikipedia articles to be written in the
> SignWriting script. The result is the SignWriting MediaWiki Plugin (SWMP)<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SignWriting_MediaWiki_Plugin>.
> And now we know it is working, because the Wikimedia Foundation, and Wikimedia
> Labs <https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>  has provided
> space on their server for us to test it. And although there is more
> software development to be completed, nonetheless, Adam Frost composed and
> posted the first article for the new ASL Wikipedia located on Wikimedia
> Labs!
>
> So the new project is still in the "test stage", but we are adding
> articles while Steve and other technicians work on the technical software
> aspects in the background. Once we have a good number of articles for
> readers to enjoy, our test ASL Wikipedia will be reviewed and then we hope,
> someday, it will be approved to become an "official Wikipedia". That has
> not happened yet, but we are working towards that goal.
>
> We are very happy to have this gift of server space and encouragement from
> the Wikimedia Foundation and Labs, and from Wikipedia users around the
> world…Thank you!
>
> So witness history in the making...
>
> *ASL Wikipedia Project on Wikimedia Labs<http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org>
> *
> http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org
>
> <http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org>
>



-- 
Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Oberlin College
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