[Wikipedia-l] sign.wikepedia.org?

Wed Jan 26 13:38:34 UTC 2005

Kaixo!

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 05:59:22AM -0000, Shane Gilchrist Ó hEorpa wrote:

> Sign.wikipedia.org
> 
> to imply that it is for national sign languages - the real beauty about

There are two major problems with that:
- writting of sign languages is not yet standardized in computers (there
  is writtign system; but it isn't in unicode; and there is opposition
  to it, some people thinking that sign languages must be "oral" only
  (well, visual actually, but not written)), that is actually the
  most important problem, lack of standardization to encode it (often
  a lot of gif images are used instead) and the problem of the input;
  however, the wikipedia has come with a way to encode and display
  egyptian hyerogliphs; so a similar solution could maybe be developped.
- there is not a single sign language, but a variety of them, so a
  unique sign.wikipedia.org would not be possible, there should be
  a different one for each different languages (and I have no idea of
  how much different sign languages exist) 

Or, if your proposal was not for a wikipedia written in sign language,
but for content about sign languages written in other languages
(eg: in English), then a specific wikipedia is not needed, you can
just create/enrich the articles on the wikipedia of the language
you want to write in. 

PS: for people maybe not aware of it: a writting of sign languages is
a system that describes the body movements used in sign languages,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SignWriting
http://www.signwriting.org/

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