<div dir="ltr"><div><div>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...<br>
</div>thank you ever so much, very detailed and clear update!<br><br></div><div>one last silly question probably - do we talk of wikipedia or wikimedia?? <br></div>best regards and thanks again,<br>maria<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 August 2013 03:56, Stephen E Slevinski Jr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:slevin@signpuddle.net" target="_blank">slevin@signpuddle.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Hi Maria,<br>
<br>
Thanks for the questions.<div class="im"><br>
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On 8/29/13 6:48 PM, maria galea wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><span lang="MT">1) Is Adam Frost still
the ASL editor of the SignWriting Wiki?</span><span lang="MT"><br>
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Yes, Adam is the main force behind the writing and editing for the
Wikipedia with SignWriting.<div class="im"><br>
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<p><span lang="MT">2) Is this wiki </span><span lang="MT"><span lang="MT"><a href="http://www.signbank.org/wiki/" target="_blank"><span>http://www.signbank.org/wiki/</span></a></span><span lang="MT"> </span><span><span></span><span></span></span><span lang="MT"></span>the
only known wiki available for a sign language written in
Signwriting?</span></p>
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Originally, that address was a custom server that we administered
that ran on Valerie's servers. Currently, that address forwards to
<a href="http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org" target="_blank">http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org</a> . This server is running on
Wikimedia's servers, rather than Valerie's<br>
<br>
The part of the URL "<a href="http://wmflabs.org" target="_blank">wmflabs.org</a>" stands for Wikimedia Foundation
Labs, aka Wikimedia Labs, aka Wikitech.<br>
<a href="https://wikitech.wikimedia.org" target="_blank">https://wikitech.wikimedia.org</a><br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<a href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org" target="_blank">http://incubator.wikimedia.org</a><br>
<br>
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.<br>
<a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013#What_I_did_in_the_hackathon_27993" target="_blank">http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013#What_I_did_in_the_hackathon_27993</a><br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
If you go to the main ASL page on Wikipedia you will see note about
the incubator project.<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Sign_Language" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Sign_Language</a><br>
<img src="cid:part2.08030507.01040100@signpuddle.net" alt=""><br>
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The link will open the ASL Wikipedia on Incubator.<br>
<a href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ase" target="_blank">http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ase</a><br>
<br>
Or you can go directly to the main page.<br>
<a href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ase/M529x544S2ff00482x483S20500519x504S18517503x517" target="_blank">http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ase/M529x544S2ff00482x483S20500519x504S18517503x517</a><br>
<br>
The discussion page is very interesting.<br>
<a href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wp/ase/M529x544S2ff00482x483S20500519x504S18517503x517" target="_blank">http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wp/ase/M529x544S2ff00482x483S20500519x504S18517503x517</a><br>
<br>
Later this year, I hope to address some of the formatting issues and
start to move the articles from <a href="http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org" target="_blank">http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org</a>
over to Incubator.<div class="im"><br>
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<p><span lang="MT">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?</span></p>
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Being available on Incubator is a major step forward, but I think it
is valid to say that it is early stages.<div class="im"><br>
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<p>4) Is the information I'm reading about here (and
written by Steve Slevinski) <a href="http://signpuddle.net/download/draft-slevinski-signwriting-text-00.html#signwriting_script" target="_blank">http://signpuddle.net/download/draft-slevinski-signwriting-text-00.html#signwriting_script</a>
up-to-date?</p>
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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".<br>
<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-slevinski-signwriting-text-01" target="_blank">http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-slevinski-signwriting-text-01</a><br>
<br>
The symbol set has been stable since 2010 and the character encoding
has been stable since January 2012.<div class="im"><br>
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<p>Thank you very much for helping me out!!</p>
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Sure, I hope that helps.<br>
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Regards,<br>
-Steve
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