Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2019 November 12

= November 12 =

Uyghur detection camera
links to an archive.org snapshot of a page written in Chinese. The page looks like a routine spec sheet for a conventional TV camera (lists the dimensions, sensor size, etc.) but based on the HN comments it sounds like the camera might contain some machine vision stuff to identify the ethnicity of people it surveils. Can someone who reads Chinese look at the specs and report if it says anything interesting along those lines? Thanks. 67.164.113.165 (talk) 07:10, 12 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Aha, the story is here. 67.164.113.165 (talk) 10:49, 12 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Here is the archived page in Chinese, as linked at ycombinator.com site:
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20191107042500/http://www1.hikvision.com/cn/prgs.aspx?c_kind=2&c_kind2=2&c_kind3=445&c_kind4=446&id=42808
 * I do not know a single word or a single character of Chinese, so can not tell what is and what isn't in the text. But I've put the URL into Google Translate and here is the result:
 * https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=pl&tab=rT1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20191107042500%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww1.hikvision.com%2Fcn%2Fprgs.aspx%3Fc_kind%3D2%26c_kind2%3D2%26c_kind3%3D445%26c_kind4%3D446%26id%3D42808
 * Alas, the link to the hikvision site is not allowed at Wikipedia. so you'll have to copy and paste the URLs into your browser.
 * The translation appears a description of DS-2CD7A2XYZ-JM/RX camera. It contains, among others specifications:
 * System functions
 * Support the gender attributes of the analyst's goals (male, female), support the racial attributes of the analyst's goals (such as Uighurs, Hans), and ethnic color attributes (such as whites, yellows, blacks); support analysts whether to wear glasses, whether to wear Mask, whether to wear a hat, whether to have a beard, the recognition accuracy is not less than 90%
 * Hope that answers your questions. --CiaPan (talk) 08:27, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Hope that answers your questions. --CiaPan (talk) 08:27, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

American Sign Language
This seems to be the right place to ask this (Talk:Sign language does not seem to be frequently visited). What's the meaning of the message this person signs?



Thank you in advance. --Blutgretchen (talk) 07:30, 12 November 2019 (UTC)


 * I made it so the video doesn't automatically play, which can be annoying. SinisterLefty (talk) 14:03, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Just as well, as it looks like a gorilla. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 20:28, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

So no one here can speak American Sign Language, seriously?! No one? Not a single person can even stumble through in pigeon sign?...and no one knows anyone who can decipher this for us? This is a dark reflection on the reference desk as a collective. We should be ashamed. Anton 81.131.40.58 (talk) 16:31, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
 * There's about 20-30 people who answer basically all of the questions around here. It would not be unusual if none of them spoke American Sign Language.  Indeed, many are British or Australian or from other English speaking countries; where even if they knew their local sign language, would not be able to translate (British Sign Language is not mutually intelligible with American Sign Language).  Something like 2% of the US population has a functional knowledge of ASL.  2% of 30 people is less than one person.  So no, I would not have the expectation that this question would have been answered by now, and if you don't have the answer, you would do very well to shut your mouth and not berate other people who don't also know the answer.  You've added nothing to the discussion except insults.  Good day sir.  -- Jayron 32 16:59, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
 * More likely is that, of the many Wikipedians who understand American Sign Language, not a single one of them has looked at this page in the past two days.  Dbfirs  16:53, 14 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Might have better luck posting to the talk page for ASL. Presumably some of the people who edit that article actually know it. SinisterLefty (talk) 17:43, 14 November 2019 (UTC)