Hoi, The answer is obviously in Wikipedia but it is also in Wikidata .... I am thinking of what statements I can add for Mexican Sign Languages Thanks, Gerard https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3915511 On 8 November 2013 19:10, Valerie Sutton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > SignWriting List > November 8, 2013 > > Hello Steve and Maria! > I think it will be wonderful, Maria, if you and your team can start a > Maltese Sign Language Wikipedia. > > I believe the term “LSM” confused you, Steve. Maria is writing Maltese > Sign Language (LSM). Mexican Sign Language is another language - the > acronym is different I guess? Not sure myself? - ha! > > No matter what, I think I am starting to understand what we need to do > technically to post articles in a new Wikipedia, so between Steve. Adam, > me, Nancy and others…we can all help you to start writing articles for a > Wikipedia in your languages everyone - > > Very exciting indeed!! > > So what is the acronym for Mexican Sign Language? > > Val ;-) > > ———— > > > On Nov 8, 2013, at 8:27 AM, Stephen E Slevinski Jr <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > 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 > ________________________________________________ > > SIGNWRITING LIST INFORMATION > > Valerie Sutton SignWriting List moderator [log in to unmask] > > Post Messages to the SignWriting List: [log in to unmask] > > SignWriting List Archives & Home Page > http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist > > Join, Leave or Change How You Receive SW List Messages > http://listserv.valenciacollege.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SW-L&A=1 > > > ________________________________________________ > > SIGNWRITING LIST INFORMATION > > Valerie Sutton SignWriting List moderator [log in to unmask] > > Post Messages to the SignWriting List: [log in to unmask] > > SignWriting List Archives & Home Page > http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist > > Join, Leave or Change How You Receive SW List Messages > http://listserv.valenciacollege.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SW-L&A=1 > > ________________________________________________ SIGNWRITING LIST INFORMATION Valerie Sutton SignWriting List moderator [log in to unmask] Post Messages to the SignWriting List: [log in to unmask] SignWriting List Archives & Home Page http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist Join, Leave or Change How You Receive SW List Messages http://listserv.valenciacollege.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SW-L&A=1