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From:
Valerie Sutton <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 28 May 2010 21:04
Subject: SignWriting Encyclopedia Projects...new SignWriting Wiki
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[log in to unmask]Hello SLLING List members -
We are working towards the goal of providing written literature in sign languages.
We have started a new project. It was just posted on the web yesterday. Here is the information:
New Special Feature
Posted May 27, 2010
Go to:
SignWriting Site
http://www.SignWriting.org
1. SignWriting Encyclopedia Projects
Writing Encyclopedias in the Sign Languages of the World
http://www.signwriting.org/encyclopedia
2. SignWriting Wiki
Wiki-style Articles written in Any Sign Language
http://www.signbank.org/wiki
3. Blogs on the ASL Wikipedia
Incubating ASL for new Wikipedia
http://www.signwriting.org/blogs/#Meijssen
4. SignWriting Image Server (SWIS)
Display and edit SignWriting images with fast installation
http://www.signbank.org/swis
The new SignWriting Wiki is open to anyone who wishes to add a category for their sign language, and start writing articles in SignWriting using SignPuddle Online, and then transferring the articles from SignPuddle Online into the SignWriting Wiki for viewing and reading by the general public.
The SignWriting Wiki is the incubator, or the development site, hopefully for a future ASL Wikipedia (or Wikipedias in any sign language we hope someday).
The SignWriting Wiki is the test area for our new software, the SignWriting MediaWiki Plugin, by Steve Slevinski.
In the future, it will be possible to write the SignWriting articles directly in the SignWriting Wiki, without having to transfer them from SignPuddle Online...so there is ongoing software development behind the scenes to make this happen...
But for right now, this is a big "first step" and I want to thank Steve Slevinski, Adam Frost (Deaf ASL editor who posted the first two articles in the SignWriting Wiki in ASL) and Gerard Meijssen from the Language Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation, for their hard work and encouragement...
The first two articles added to the ASL SignWriting Wiki are based on the ASL videos by Lucinda O'Grady Batch, of the history of Charles-Michel de l'Épée and the history of Laurent Clerc. Both videos were first transcribed into SignWriting by Charles Butler, and placed in SignPuddle Online, and then Adam Frost transferred them into the SignWriting Wiki for people to read. You can read them at these links:
ASL SignWriting Wiki
http://www.signbank.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:ASL
History of Charles-Michel de l'Épée
http://www.signbank.org/wiki/index.php?title=Charles-Michel_de_l%27%C3%89p%C3%A9e
History of Laurent Clerc
http://www.signbank.org/wiki/index.php?title=Laurent_Clerc
Any feedback is much appreciated, so write anytime -
Val ;-)
Valerie Sutton
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SignWriting
Read & Write Sign Languages
http://www.SignWriting.org
SignPuddle
Create SignWriting Documents Online
http://www.SignBank.org/signpuddle
SignWriting Wiki
Wiki-style Articles in Sign Languages
http://www.signbank.org/wiki
SignWriting List
Technical Support: Ask questions...
http://www.SignWriting.org/forums/swlist
SignWriting Literature Project
Writing Literature in Sign Languages
http://www.SignWriting.org/literature
SignWriting Encyclopedia Projects
Writing Encyclopedias in Sign Languages
http://www.SignWriting.org/encyclopedia
Deaf Action Committee For SignWriting
Center For Sutton Movement Writing
a US educational nonprofit organization
PO Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038, USA
Tel: 858-456-0098 Skype: valeriesutton