User:Slevinski

Stephen E Slevinski Jr

Hello world
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 * "Hello world." in American Sign Language.

SignWriting MediaWiki Incubator
It's 2010 and time for the next step. 2 main hurdles remain before we can have a Wikipedia for American Sign Language. First, we need a working localized wiki in sign language. Second, we need a vibrant community of writers/translators that can complete 300 articles that can stand up to academic review. I'm working on the first step. So far, I can add basic SignWriting content to MediaWiki. There are 2 parts to the plugin. A viewer and an editor. The viewer works with with the Binary SignWriting open standard. The data is entered as hex wrapped with simple markup or as UTF-8 wrapped text. With the UTF-8 wrapper, sign language can be used as standard text within MediaWiki or anywhere UTF-8 is used. Take a look at Hello world. or the analysis page to get an idea of how the UTF-8 wrapper works. All of the content of SignPuddle Online is available as BSW (hex) or UTF-8 data.

In March, 2 flavors of the SignWriting MediaWiki Plugin will be available: a viewer and an editor. I am trying to get the SignWriting MediaWiki Plugin viewer up and running on the official WikiMedia Incubator. An official incubator project will make final approval that much quicker. An official incubator will allow the sign language proponents a chance to work on the localization and the content without concerns for backup and maintenance.

After final approval, I have tentative approval for SignWriting to be included on the developer roadmap (an outlay of significant time and money). The earlier the code is reviewed, the better.

I have my own private SVN for my code. I am unsure if the SignWriting MeidaWiki Plugin should nor needs to be in the official SVN repository.

The current beta of the SignWriting MediaWiki Plugin is not ready to deploy yet. I should be ready in March 2010 with a deploy-able beta 2. We can deploy the viewer by itself or include the editor as well. There is still the question of using the BSW (hex) or UTF-8. - Steve 15:53, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

* SignWriting * SignPuddle Online * SignPuddle Information Network * SignWriting Image Server * BSW and ISWA 2008 HTML Reference * Extension:SignWriting MediaWiki Plugin

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