Sign language projects on Wikimedia Incubator

Yair Rand yyairrand at GMAIL.COM
Mon Nov 11 22:07:00 UTC 2013


Despite the name, Wikibooks doesn't actually include that kind of thing.
Wikibooks deals with open-content textbooks, exclusively nonfiction.

Wikisource is the project for out-of-copyright texts and translations of
such texts. Unfortunately, new languages for Wikisource aren't held on the
Incubator like most of the other projects. They are held on the Old
Wikisource ( https://wikisource.org/ ). As it is, the SignWriting gadget is
not yet available on the Old Wikisource, so displaying any SignWriting on
that wiki is not yet possible.


On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 4:55 AM, maria galea <signwriting.maria at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Steve,
> We may be interested in starting an LSM wikipedia in the near future.  Is
> it easy to paste from SignPuddle to Wikipedia?
> We have a few translated children's story books in SignPuddle - could we
> transport them to Wikibooks in the future?
> Thanks
> maria
>
>
> On 7 November 2013 20:25, Stephen E Slevinski Jr <slevin at signpuddle.net>wrote:
>
>>  Hi SignWriting List,
>>
>> In the last few months, there have been several improvements that make it
>> possible for Wikimedia Incubator to support SignWriting Text.
>>
>> All of the Wikimedia projects are now available to any sign language with
>> a valid ISO 639 code.  The projects include Wikipeida, Wiktionary,
>> Wikiquote, Wikinews, Wikivoyage, and Wikibooks.
>>
>> We still have lots of work to do, but the rudimentary support is enough
>> to get off the ground.
>>
>> This is an open invite to join the ASL Wikipedia as we move to the
>> Incubator.  We are accepting new articles.  We have been writing the
>> articles in SignPuddle and pasting the articles in the Incubator text areas.
>>
>> If you want to join us on Incubator, you'll need a Wikimedia login.
>>
>> After you log onto Incubator, select the link to the Preferences.
>>
>> Screenshot:
>>
>>
>> In the Internationalisation section, set the preferences for a "Test
>> wiki" of Wikipedia and a "Test wiki language" of "ase" for American Sign
>> Language.
>>
>> Screenshot:
>>
>>
>> New articles can be written in the ASL Encyclopedia section of SignPuddle.
>> http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/index.php?ui=1&sgn=21
>>
>> Every article needs a page title as a unique entry with no more than 13
>> symbols.  Additional symbols can be supported, up to a total of 19, but
>> result in a less accurate sort.  The Formal SignWriting string for page
>> titles must be less than 255 characters long.
>>
>> Once you have the title with a custom SignSpelling Sequence, you can use
>> the FSW to create a new page using the Incubator search.
>>
>> To create a new page, use the FSW of the page title to search on
>> Incubator.  The page will not be found, but if the title is short enough,
>> you can create the page.
>>
>> Screenshot:
>>
>>
>> Click the red link to create the page.  Paste in the body text and save.
>>
>> Regards,
>> ∼Steve
>> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Slevinski
>>  ________________________________________________
>>
>>  SIGNWRITING LIST INFORMATION
>>
>> Valerie Sutton SignWriting List moderator sutton at signwriting.org
>>
>> Post Messages to the SignWriting List: sw-l at listserv.valenciacollege.edu
>>
>> SignWriting List Archives & Home Page
>> http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist
>>
>> Join, Leave or Change How You Receive SW List Messages
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>>
>>
> ________________________________________________
>
>  SIGNWRITING LIST INFORMATION
>
> Valerie Sutton SignWriting List moderator sutton at signwriting.org
>
> Post Messages to the SignWriting List: sw-l at listserv.valenciacollege.edu
>
> SignWriting List Archives & Home Page
> http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist
>
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>

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