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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Writing systems. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; whilst by no means mandatory, it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page, register your name on the Participants list and review this Project page. All contributions to articles and ideas for further development of this project are welcome. See this subpage for information about quality assessment of articles in this project.
This article is a child project of WikiProject Linguistics. For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.
WikiProject – Writing systems
This WikiProject aims primarily to provide Wikipedia (en) with a consistent treatment for each writing system and general information relating to the study of writing systems. Many writing systems already have extensive pages, and the systematic information on those pages is not presented in a consistent way. A main purpose of this WikiProject is to present that information consistently, that many notable writing systems are documented, and to ensure that each of the major subject areas relevant to each is covered, at least briefly.
Note: the abbreviation WS may be used on this project page as a shorthand way to mean "writing system".
Read further for more on proposed coverage, strategy, areas to be developed, etc.
This project covers all articles describing writing systems, their individual symbols, their relationships with language, culture, and art, as well as their development in these areas.
Related WikiProjects are listed below. Monitoring their development, usage and approach may be useful when considering this project's further expansion and direction.
Other WikiProjects whose subject matter is actually (or conceptually) derived from this one include:
Other thematically-related WikiProjects include:
WikiProject WS
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The following is a list of WikiProject Writing System participants who have been active in the last year.
Please add yourself in alphabetical order. (Don't put a blank line above or below your entry: it'll mess up the numbered list.) Feel free to sign up below if you'd be interested in helping out. You can add the userbox {{ User WikiProject WS}} to your userpage after you've signed up. It will put you under Category:WikiProject Writing systems participants.
The following members of WikiProject Writing Systems have been inactive editors for more than one year. If you find yourself on this list, but wish to remain on the active list, please move your entry back up to its place in the list of participants, above.
The following users are retired:
The appropriate infoboxes should be included (see template section)
Writing systems can be discussed in a classified hierarchy.
Common goals and protocols suggested for the project to be documented here.
Here is an organized list of current projects, jobs, etc. which this project aims to accomplish, or at least aid in the success thereof.
Project contributors may wish to identify some specific section or theme upon which they are interested in working on. If so, you may do that here.
Individual articles, stubs, or proposed articles may be identified here for specific collaboration and coordination of efforts.
The Writing Systems' Gold Star can be awarded to any editor who substantially contributes to the goals of WikiProject Writing Systems, whether that editor is a member or not. Any member may award the Gold Star by copying {{ subst:WPWSstar|your message ~~~~}} to the recipient's talk page.
All writing system templates should be listed here. They should also be listed at Category:Writing system templates.
WS-related categories and sub-categories to be listed here.
Ideally, every WS-related article should be placed in at least one WS-related cat or subcat, as per the schema definition (yet to be supplied), above.
All articles related to writing systems may be linked to here, for ease of reference, monitoring recent changes, and annotating where appropriate the article's current "completeness".
"Missing" or proposed articles can also be listed as redlinks as a prompt for future development.
(i.e., primary or overview articles)
(i.e., articles concerned with technical definitions and terminology used in the description or study of writing systems)
acrophony allograph grapheme orthography
(i.e., articles concerned with the overall classification of writing systems according to common features, historical development, language relatedness, etc.)
Alphabet Abjad Abugida Logogram Syllabary Shorthands
(Note that Peter T. Daniels' attempts to retroactively narrow the meaning of the word "alphabet" have not fully prevailed, and that articles such as "Arabic alphabet" and "Hebrew alphabet" are unlikely to have their titles changed in the foreseeable future.)
The term 'script' is used with four meanings:
'Alphabet' is used for national instantiations of a segmental script, usually with a defined sorting order:
The terms abjad and abugida, though often used in the text, are considered jargon and inappropriate for a title.
Exceptions may be made where a unambiguous conventional name exists, and thus 'script', 'alphabet', or 'syllabary' is not necessary:
Exceptions may also occur where a different technical term is widely used:
Modifiers may be used for subtypes or other cases of disambiguation:
Names should include some indication that the article concerns a character, letter, or grapheme and not a word.
Links to, or details of, commonly-used, important and authorative resources and reference works to appear here.
Good article nominees
Requested moves
Articles to be merged
Articles to be split
Articles for creation
This is a
WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!
|
Find a writing system |
---|
Enter an ISO 15924 code to find the corresponding script article |
(Please report any incorrect links to this talk page) |
Current assessment statistics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Writing systems. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; whilst by no means mandatory, it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page, register your name on the Participants list and review this Project page. All contributions to articles and ideas for further development of this project are welcome. See this subpage for information about quality assessment of articles in this project.
This article is a child project of WikiProject Linguistics. For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.
WikiProject – Writing systems
This WikiProject aims primarily to provide Wikipedia (en) with a consistent treatment for each writing system and general information relating to the study of writing systems. Many writing systems already have extensive pages, and the systematic information on those pages is not presented in a consistent way. A main purpose of this WikiProject is to present that information consistently, that many notable writing systems are documented, and to ensure that each of the major subject areas relevant to each is covered, at least briefly.
Note: the abbreviation WS may be used on this project page as a shorthand way to mean "writing system".
Read further for more on proposed coverage, strategy, areas to be developed, etc.
This project covers all articles describing writing systems, their individual symbols, their relationships with language, culture, and art, as well as their development in these areas.
Related WikiProjects are listed below. Monitoring their development, usage and approach may be useful when considering this project's further expansion and direction.
Other WikiProjects whose subject matter is actually (or conceptually) derived from this one include:
Other thematically-related WikiProjects include:
WikiProject WS
|
The following is a list of WikiProject Writing System participants who have been active in the last year.
Please add yourself in alphabetical order. (Don't put a blank line above or below your entry: it'll mess up the numbered list.) Feel free to sign up below if you'd be interested in helping out. You can add the userbox {{ User WikiProject WS}} to your userpage after you've signed up. It will put you under Category:WikiProject Writing systems participants.
The following members of WikiProject Writing Systems have been inactive editors for more than one year. If you find yourself on this list, but wish to remain on the active list, please move your entry back up to its place in the list of participants, above.
The following users are retired:
The appropriate infoboxes should be included (see template section)
Writing systems can be discussed in a classified hierarchy.
Common goals and protocols suggested for the project to be documented here.
Here is an organized list of current projects, jobs, etc. which this project aims to accomplish, or at least aid in the success thereof.
Project contributors may wish to identify some specific section or theme upon which they are interested in working on. If so, you may do that here.
Individual articles, stubs, or proposed articles may be identified here for specific collaboration and coordination of efforts.
The Writing Systems' Gold Star can be awarded to any editor who substantially contributes to the goals of WikiProject Writing Systems, whether that editor is a member or not. Any member may award the Gold Star by copying {{ subst:WPWSstar|your message ~~~~}} to the recipient's talk page.
All writing system templates should be listed here. They should also be listed at Category:Writing system templates.
WS-related categories and sub-categories to be listed here.
Ideally, every WS-related article should be placed in at least one WS-related cat or subcat, as per the schema definition (yet to be supplied), above.
All articles related to writing systems may be linked to here, for ease of reference, monitoring recent changes, and annotating where appropriate the article's current "completeness".
"Missing" or proposed articles can also be listed as redlinks as a prompt for future development.
(i.e., primary or overview articles)
(i.e., articles concerned with technical definitions and terminology used in the description or study of writing systems)
acrophony allograph grapheme orthography
(i.e., articles concerned with the overall classification of writing systems according to common features, historical development, language relatedness, etc.)
Alphabet Abjad Abugida Logogram Syllabary Shorthands
(Note that Peter T. Daniels' attempts to retroactively narrow the meaning of the word "alphabet" have not fully prevailed, and that articles such as "Arabic alphabet" and "Hebrew alphabet" are unlikely to have their titles changed in the foreseeable future.)
The term 'script' is used with four meanings:
'Alphabet' is used for national instantiations of a segmental script, usually with a defined sorting order:
The terms abjad and abugida, though often used in the text, are considered jargon and inappropriate for a title.
Exceptions may be made where a unambiguous conventional name exists, and thus 'script', 'alphabet', or 'syllabary' is not necessary:
Exceptions may also occur where a different technical term is widely used:
Modifiers may be used for subtypes or other cases of disambiguation:
Names should include some indication that the article concerns a character, letter, or grapheme and not a word.
Links to, or details of, commonly-used, important and authorative resources and reference works to appear here.
Good article nominees
Requested moves
Articles to be merged
Articles to be split
Articles for creation