<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>May 16, 2012</div><div><br></div><div>Hi Steve!</div><div>When do you want people to start adding new articles in written sign languages, to the SignWriting Wiki encyclopedia projects?</div><div><br></div><div>And how do we do it?</div><div><br></div><div>If you can give us an idea of your timeline…When do we start?</div><div><br></div><div>And some simple instructions as to "how" to start writing and posting articles, then Adam and I can create some instruction videos teaching people what to do…</div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks for this exciting new opportunity - I can envision a large encyclopedia written in the world's sign languages someday -</div><div><br></div><div>Val ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>--------</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On May 16, 2012, at 11:42 AM, Steve Slevinski wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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Hi List,<br>
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I've updated the SignWriting MediaWiki Plugin (SWMP). You can view
the test wiki online:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.signbank.org/wiki">http://www.signbank.org/wiki</a><br>
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MediaWiki is the software behind Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and more.
The SWMP is an extension for MediaWiki.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SignWriting_MediaWiki_Plugin">http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SignWriting_MediaWiki_Plugin</a><br>
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There are several sign language projects for Wikipedia and
Wiktionary that have been "Verified as eligible".<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages#Open_requests">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages#Open_requests</a><br>
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The next step for these projects is to "
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<span style="">develop an active test project</span>".<br>
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Currently, the SWMP allows the viewing of SignWriting within a
MediaWiki install. Sign data can be copied from SignPuddle and
pasted into the MediaWiki software.<br>
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The purpose of the extension will be to run on the various WikiMedia
Foundation servers.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.wikimedia.org/">http://www.wikimedia.org/</a><br>
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I am actively pursuing this goal and hoping for the best.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Writing_an_extension_for_deployment">http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Writing_an_extension_for_deployment</a><br>
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Regards,<br>
-Steve<br>
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