Sign language projects on Wikimedia Incubator

Fri Nov 8 16:27:55 UTC 2013

On 11/8/13, 3:55 AM, maria galea wrote:
> We may be interested in starting an LSM wikipedia in the near future. 
>  Is it easy to paste from SignPuddle to Wikipedia?
Hi Maria,

We are using the FSW strings.   Material that is written in SignPuddle 
can be copied and pasted directly into Wikipedia. Anywhere you find the 
FSW strings being used, you can copy and paste the ASCII strings 
directly into Incubator as you would with any other language.

Editing with the ASCII strings is a bit rough, but we we are getting 
better all of the time.

The biggest challenge is the page names.   For any page on Incubator, 
the page names must use less than 255 characters.  For properly sortable 
SignWriting, this means that only 13 symbols can be used.  The page 
names are used in the URL of the page.

For example, here is the "Main page" for the ASL Wikipeida on Incubator.
https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ase/AS18517S20500S2ff00M529x544S2ff00482x483S20500519x504S18517503x517

Maria, I hope you and many others will join the Mexican Sign Language 
Wikipedia efforts on Incubator.
https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/mfs

Incubator uses the ISO 639-3 language codes for new languages. Mexican 
Sign Language uses the code "mfs".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Sign_Language

If you scroll to the bottom of the above Wikipedia page, you'll see the 
link to Incubator.

On 11/8/13, 3:55 AM, maria galea wrote:
> We have a few translated children's story books in SignPuddle - could 
> we transport them to Wikibooks in the future?
Copy the FSW strings from SignPuddle and paste into Wikibooks. Mexican 
Sign Language can start the Wikibooks project any time.
https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wb/mfs

Regards,
-Steve

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