SignIt

**Lingua Libre SignIt**
Lingua Libre SignIt add-on enhances your webpages to learn sign languages.
Information
Website	SignIt Firefox Add-on
Started in	2019
Repository	lingua-libre/SignIt (github.com)
Supported by	Wikimédia France (2019); URFIST Occitanie (2023-2024). ; Currently looking for affiliation.
Statistics
Recordings	+700
Languages	+1
Signers	+5
Contact
WM support	None.; Currently looking for affiliation.
Main	Yug, GonFreeaks

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Wikimedia SignIt add-on for Firefox is a demonstrator project which allows you to translate a (French) word into (French) sign language videos on any web page. When you read a text and come across a word you don't know, select that word, click on the SignIt icon: the sign in LSF and the definition of the word in French will appear on a window.

If a word is not available in LSF, we invite you to record it with our easy-to-use webapp on LinguaLibre. When you select a signed language, the recording studio switch to video mode. Textual definitions are fetched from the [French] Wiktionary to which you can also contribute.

SignIt is community driven since 2020. As of 2025, SignIt is actively looking for an official WM sponsor in order to endorse us while we apply to various grants. Such grant is required for us to (1) wrap up coding, (2) publish the extension Chrome and Firefox stores (90 and 5% of market share), (3) launch a formal awareness campaign and (4) contact identified partners for further content acquisition or creation.

Mission

Wikimedia SignIt aims to increase awareness and mastery of signed languages among the general public.

We believe signed languages have general benefits for everyone. The general public can easily gain the ability to communicate on longer distances, through glass windows, in overwhelmingly noisy environments. It would be more inclusive for signers, non-verbal toddlers (see baby sign language), and provide an important safety-net against hearing loss which affects nearly all our elders, some adults and children. We believe universal and transgenerational designs helps individuals and society to be more resilient, inclusive, peaceful and efficient.

Developments

In 2022

SignIt browser extension working well on Firefox, portable to other browsers.
Translating the user interface of the extension into 30+ major contact languages and Wikimedia languages, including:^[1]

Germanic languages:
German (de: Deutsch)
English (en: English)
Norwegian Bokmål (nb: norsk bokmål)
Swedish (sv: svenska)
Celtic languages:
Breton (br: brezhoneg)
Italic languages:
Spanish (es: español)
French (fr: français)
Italian (it: italiano)
Lombard (lmo: lombard)
Portuguese (pt: português)
Brazilian Portuguese (pt-br: português do Brasil)
Sicilian (scn: sicilianu)
Finno-Ugrian languages:
Finnish (fi: suomi)
Balto-Slavic languages:
Macedonian (mk: македонски)
Russian (ru: русский)
Slovenian (sl: slovenščina)
Ukrainian (uk: українська)
Turkic languages:
Kazakh (kk-cyrl: қазақша)
Karachay-Balkar (krc: къарачай-малкъар)
Turkish (tr: Türkçe)
Indo-Iranian languages:
Angika (anp: अंगिका)
Bangla (bn: বাংলা)
Persian (fa: فارسی)
Hindi (hi: हिन्दी)
Western Punjabi (pnb: پنجابی)
Semitic languages:
Arabic (ar: العربية)
Hebrew (he: עברית)
Bantoid languages:
Swahili (sw: Kiswahili)
Austronesian languages:
Indonesian (id: Bahasa Indonesia)
Tagalog (tl: Tagalog)
Eastern Asian languages:
Japanese (ja: 日本語)
Korean (ko: 한국어)
Simplified Chinese (zh-hans: 中文（简体）)
Traditional Chinese (zh-hant: 中文（繁體）)
Auxiliary languages:
Interlingua (ia: interlingua)

In 2023

Restore video recording studio.
French Sign Language demonstrate the viability and speed of video recording via Lingua Libre video recording studio.
Doing... Call for volunteer contributors, see below.

In 2024

In 2025

Most needed skills

Fluent signer(s), willing share is point of view on this nascent project, video record hours. Our tool will allow native signers to record around 200+ words per hour, adding them to the Wikimedia Commons' database and SignIt. A decent dictionary >3000 words can be built in just 10 hours. Those activists are the most valuable resource.
Web and JS developers, willing to code, discuss, improve the extension.
Language or country-specific project manager, willing to set up and organize with sign language activists some low cost video recording sessions.

Please share this call in your country and let get in touch when some volunteers are available, emailing Yug or on wiki talk page.

Project phases and stakeholders

Phase 0 (pre-launch, by the initial team):
- We create a rapid video recording system.
- We create a demonstrator with LSF.
- We insure recording chain's integrity.
- (ongoing) We raise project awareness.
- (ongoing) We demonstrate community's interest.
- (starting) We plan outreach to the general public.
Phase 1 (production): The deaf community leads content creation via Lingua Libre's video recorder.
Phase 2 (consumption): The general public consumes contents, increase awareness, learn sign languages basics via extension, wiktionaries and others.
Phase 3 (benefits): The whole community harvest fruits, with a more bilingual and deaf-inclusive societies.

Show of support

Hello all, in preparation of future grant requests, users interested in the valorisation of Wikimedia Sign Languages contents via SignIt are encouraged to voice their support below.

Support SignIt valorizes both Sign Language videos on Commons and Wiktionaries contents beyond Wikimedia. If Wikimedia helps sign languages, it could invite more Sign Languages contributors to contribute content to Wikimedia Commons. Yug (talk) 22:48, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Support A valuable project that fills a gap in the roadmap towards making knowledge available to everyone. --Waldyrious (talk) 08:49, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Support As a way of reaching out to all humans regardless of ability or disability, project SignIt seems to be a gap-filler as regards those with hearing impairment. This could be successful in reaching out to such people with special needs and in teaching those who wish to learn to communicate with them. -- Kambai Akau (talk) 02:36, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Support Definitely a very useful project to make Wikimedia projects and Sign Languages more accessible. This is an area that is sorely overlooked nowadays in education and knowledge sharing. J. N. Squire (talk) 18:08, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Visuals

Lingua Libre SignIt for Firefox — Works on Chrome/Chomium/Edge if installed manually. Works on 660 French words as of 2022.
The word “poisson” (fish) in French Sign language.
« bibliothèque »
« merci »
« crabe »

SignIt

Mission

Developments

In 2022

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In 2024

In 2025

Most needed skills

Project phases and stakeholders

Show of support

Visuals

See also

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Development and internationalization

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