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:
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> 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
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