Category talk:User sgn

message: User:MarSch pointed out on my user talk page that it's easier to use the subst keyword, then add the variable. Genius. I've updated the category pages with new instructions.  ntennis 02:56, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Better Babel solution 

message: When starting writing this I hoped that it would be possible to use a sort key in the template to group the languages perhaps, but after reading a bit more (It is described on this page on meta.), I realized it wasn't possible, now at least. If the wiki software of WP is changed in the future it might be interesting, though.
Or the template could be changed, to link to an subcategory of sgn-X (don't really have ideas how to decide how to name it though). That way you would have more overview, at least when there are more users here (and it would be more applicable for a possible future mis template, where there supposedly is more variation). Not a really nice solution though. TERdON 00:12, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal for making a better template so all languages aren't just lumped together in the category 

message: I had mistakenly changed around the templates, believing there to be an error in the template, as even sgn-4 was missing. ntennis was kind enough to revert my edits, and drop me a line on my talk page, which I appreciate. I thought that the fact that  was in mine and other babel pages was an indication that the template was left unfinished, instead of just as an add point for the particular branch of sign language. What I wonder is why ASL doesn't have a different babel template than French sl, per se. Why isn't this template in the language in which it was created? If the spoken languages can have their own individual language babel templates, why can't sign language? Conversely, the need to reduce the number of templates is also great, but I feel it would be much more beneficial to the whole community to give sign language its own templates. On the other hand, it might be nice to spell out the words using the respective sign language hand motions (like other babel templates). This may be more difficult than imagined, but I think it would be a clever solution/idea.
I had created  by copy-and-pasting  and making changes from there. I had made the correct changes the first time, but when I clicked "save page", my connection timed out, and I was forced to re-do the whole page, this time filled with errors. Addressing ntennis's concern about sgn-4, I believe that that is a fair assesment as well. Why are the wordings different for different templates? I believe this should be corrected, and we should come to a solution.
Adding the fact that I had pulled an all-nighter editing was no help either—those edits were made at 5 AM EST—and I can all but assure that it will not happen again. Please accept my appology, and again, sorry.
Sunglasses at night
04:20, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sorry 

message: I don't know how many sign languages people actually speak, but how about for each one make a separate family of templates that uses the Template:User_sgn* templates?  For example, Template:User asl-1 would contain:

That would get it, wouldn't it? Jdavidb (talk) 20:59, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes it would! Thankyou for this excellent idea. I will make some templates for ASL. There are probably hundreds of sign languages in use but there's no need to make all the templates at once. The good thing about this solution is it doesn't preclude users from continuing with the old system, and users of 'minority' sign languages can continue doing things in this way. Cheers! ntennis 23:54, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

text: I propose creating and have created a page for sgn-0 for all the deaf people that don't know sign language. I believe it is important for late-deafened people that may not learn sign language for communication, for people who was cochlear implantized from a young age, and others. If there is something wrong, let me know. --lux 22:17, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yet another solution 

message: So far, the "user ASL" infoboxes have been incompletely implemented. It's partly my fault for not creating the user ASL categories earlier. The idea, starting with Jdavidb's post above, was to make the "user ASL" templates call on the "user sgn" templates and automatically add the |ASL parameter.  This allows the user to easily add their ASL language box to the Babel template, and avoid the extra steps that are otherwise required. So far so good; this part is working well.
However, to get the full functionality from the new "user ASL" templates, they should put the user page in four categories: User sgn, User sgn-x, User ASL and User ASL-x. This stage hadn't been implemented yet, but we might as well start this now and Lux has already created the categories. If we want to know which wikipedians are ASL users, we should be able to look at the "Category:User ASL" page and see all the user names together. I just added the extra "user ASL" categories to the template for native ASL signers yesterday to see how it would work. What I realised is that the wikimedia software only puts the user name in the category page when the page containing the template is saved — it won't automatically update the category page to add the names of users who are already using the ASL. It does, however, add these categories to the bottom of their user page. Odd.
So after adding the user ASL categories to the templates, we need to go to the page of each user already using them and hit "edit" then "save" (changing nothing), so their name be added to the category page. ASL-1, ASL-2 and ASL-3 are yet to be done. Anyone who adds the template to their page from now on will of course be added automatically without having to re-save the page.
The other thing that needs to be done to complete the implementation of these templates is go to the user pages using the more general "user sgn" template with an ASL parameter like this:  and replace them with the   template. Any takers? ntennis 02:24, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "User ASL" infoboxes 

message: what about other types of sign language such as british sign language? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lucy-marie (talk • contribs) 
:You can indicate British Sign Language in the template. Instructions are on the category page, or put a note here or on my talk page if you need help. The other option is to make separate templates, like with :Template:User ASL. ntennis 08:21, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  types of sign language 

message: Hi there. I started the Spanish version of WikiProject Deaf, you can see it by clicking at :es:Wikiproyecto:Sordera. Anybody willing to help? Thank you in advance. Regards, --Fadesga (talk) 18:37, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anybody willing to help in Spanish, please?