Wikipedia - any recent updates?

[maria galea]

Thank you Steve! I have just made all the necessary changes to the section
I was writing about ASL wikipedia...thank you especially for the updated
document that expires in nov 2013..it helps to have this one rather the one
that has just expired...
thank you ever so much, very detailed and clear update!

one last silly question probably  - do we talk of wikipedia or wikimedia??
best regards and thanks again,
maria


On 30 August 2013 03:56, Stephen E Slevinski Jr <slevin at signpuddle.net>wrote:

>  Hi Maria,
>
> Thanks for the questions.
>
>
> On 8/29/13 6:48 PM, maria galea wrote:
>
> 1) Is Adam Frost still  the ASL editor of the SignWriting Wiki?
>
>
> Yes, Adam is the main force behind the writing and editing for the
> Wikipedia with SignWriting.
>
>
>   2) Is this wiki http://www.signbank.org/wiki/  the only known wiki
> available for a sign language written in Signwriting?
>
>
> Originally, that address was a custom server that we administered that ran
> on Valerie's servers.  Currently, that address forwards to
> http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org .  This server is running on Wikimedia's
> servers, rather than Valerie's
>
> The part of the URL "wmflabs.org" stands for Wikimedia Foundation Labs,
> aka Wikimedia Labs, aka Wikitech.
> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org
>
> Wikimedia Labs is a great environment that allows users to create their
> own server.  I created a custom installation for the ASL Wikipedia which I
> am the administrator.
>
> Before a new language can have an official Wikipedia, it must demonstrate
> an active list of editors and a collection of well written articles.  New
> test Wikipedia projects usually start on the Wikimedia Incubator.  However,
> when we started the above Wikipedia project, Incubator was unable to
> support the SignWriting script.
> http://incubator.wikimedia.org
>
> Several months ago, I was fortunate to attend a Wikimedia Hackathon in
> Amsterdam. I posted a report on the discussion page.  Mine it the second
> entry.
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013#What_I_did_in_the_hackathon_27993
>
> I was able to talk with several people at the Hackathon and figure out a
> way for Incubator to support the SignWriting script.  It is a work in
> progress, but very promising.
>
> If you go to the main ASL page on Wikipedia you will see note about the
> incubator project.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Sign_Language
>
>
> The link will open the ASL Wikipedia on Incubator.
> http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ase
>
> Or you can go directly to the main page.
>
> http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ase/M529x544S2ff00482x483S20500519x504S18517503x517
>
> The discussion page is very interesting.
>
> http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wp/ase/M529x544S2ff00482x483S20500519x504S18517503x517
>
> Later this year, I hope to address some of the formatting issues and start
> to move the articles from http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org over to
> Incubator.
>
>
>
>  3) Can I still stay that its early stages of being a test/proof concept
> site (Frost, personal communication, June 2012) - or have things developed
> since then?
>
>
> Being available on Incubator is a major step forward, but I think it is
> valid to say that it is early stages.
>
>
>
>  4) Is the information I'm reading about here (and written by Steve
> Slevinski)
> http://signpuddle.net/download/draft-slevinski-signwriting-text-00.html#signwriting_script
> up-to-date?
>
>
> I did release a version draft-slevinski-signwriting-text-01, but it is
> consistent with version 00.  I added some of the details from "Modern
> SignWriting".
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-slevinski-signwriting-text-01
>
> The symbol set has been stable since 2010 and the character encoding has
> been stable since January 2012.
>
>
>  Thank you very much for helping me out!!
>
>
> Sure, I hope that helps.
>
> Regards,
> -Steve
>
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