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# [[User:Yenx|Yenx]] I have little time, but know about 10 writing systems almost perfectly and would love to improve the articles, it's needed!
# [[User:Yenx|Yenx]] I have little time, but know about 10 writing systems almost perfectly and would love to improve the articles, it's needed!
# [[User:Yung Wei|Yung Wei]]<sup>[[Special:Contributions/Yung_Wei|<font color="green">綪</font>]][[User_talk:Yung_Wei|<font color="green">永徽</font>]]</sup> 00:23, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
# [[User:Yung Wei|Yung Wei]]<sup>[[Special:Contributions/Yung_Wei|<font color="green">綪</font>]][[User_talk:Yung_Wei|<font color="green">永徽</font>]]</sup> 00:23, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
# [[User:俺はバカ|名無し]]

===Currently inactive participants===
===Currently inactive participants===
The following members of WikiProject Writing Systems have been inactive editors for more than one year:
The following members of WikiProject Writing Systems have been inactive editors for more than one year:

Revision as of 11:02, 3 March 2013

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Current assessment
statistics
Writing system articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 1 1 1 3
GA 3 3 3 3 12
B 16 83 92 189 18 398
C 15 74 91 219 27 426
Start 5 138 359 1,022 56 1,580
Stub 2 21 464 47 534
List 2 12 14 413 6 447
Category 324 324
Disambig 1 1 10 12
File 28 28
Portal 2 2
Project 6 6
Redirect 10 32 58 189 289
Template 2 3 11 414 430
NA 32 2 2 1 37
Other 12 12
Assessed 43 324 648 2,383 987 155 4,540
Total 43 324 648 2,383 987 155 4,540
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 14,038 Ω = 4.75

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.

Title

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.

Scope

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.

Descendant WikiProjects

Other WikiProjects whose subject matter is actually (or conceptually) derived from this one include:

  • Defunct WikiProject Latin alphabet
  • Defunct WikiProject Chinese characters

Similar WikiProjects

Other thematically-related WikiProjects include:

  • No related Collaborations have yet been identified.

Sister project searches:

Task Forces

Participants

The following is a list of WikiProject Writing System participants who have been active in the last year.

Please add yourself in alphabetical order. 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 members.

  1. Angr (talk) 17:15, 25 September 2011 (UTC) - I'm more or less familiar with the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Cyrillic, Arabic, Devanagari, Burmese, Hangul, Katakana, and Hiragana writing systems.[reply]
  2. Cbdorsett Count me in. Ask me questions; I'm always happy to help. And yes, I really do speak Arabic. --Cbdorsett 10:12, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  3. CBD 20:41, 22 September 2006 (UTC) - Mostly a template handyman, but will also look into possible improvements to Maya script, Sarati, Enochian, and various other dead and/or fictional scripts which I am familiar with. --CBD 20:41, 22 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Chet Gray (talk) 08:00, 15 April 2008 (UTC) – I don't have a particular expertise in any writing system, but this has long been an interest of mine, at least since I taught myself Tengwar in grade school.[reply]
  5. cjllw added 9 Jun05; will be glad to help expand related articles where I can
  6. Codex Sinaiticus) – Have been working in this area. – ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 04:31, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Codrin.B 05:23, 9 January 2011 (UTC) - interested in finding the truth about the controversial Dacian script, Sinaia lead plates and Rohonc Codex. Also in deciphering Thracian inscriptions and interpretations of Tărtăria tablets[reply]
  8. Coroboy 12:56, 12 July 2011 (UTC) - working on the letters of the Cyrillic alphabet.[reply]
  9. Christoph Päper: primarily theoretical, but also applied graphem(at)ics and related linguistic topics, like orthography, also typography — Christoph Päper 13:29, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Dcmacnut: Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. Not sure how much help I can be, but am willing to pitch in.Dcmacnut 18:17, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  11. DePiep: Coming from the Unicode universe, now that Unicode pages are tagged into this project. -DePiep (talk) 11:01, 17 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Dr Bug (Vladimir V. Medeyko) I've made numerous changes in this area, happy to know that there's a project. 07:00, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Doc Rock: Korean, Japanese, Chinese, runiform scripts, Ogham, Tifinag,and others Doc Rock 00:34, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  14. Evertype·✆ 08:10, 1 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  15. FrancisTyers · 08:52, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  16. Geoking66
  17. graymornings: I speak and read Russian, so I'm familiar with the Cyrillic alphabet. I'm willing to help in any way – just post a message to my talk page.
  18. John Carter (talk) 00:44, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  19. Jomeara421 (talk) 29 December 2008 Languages and scripts of Algonquian family, Cree syllabary, roman alphabets used for Algonquian languages.
  20. User:Joost Trying to help sorting out and cleaning up some of the many writing systems. Started some work today on cleaning up the mess in the articles about the various Brahmic writing systems, including work on infoboxes, broken links, etc.
  21. JWB (talk) 02:40, 20 January 2008 (UTC) Familiar with most major scripts and writing system issues in general.[reply]
  22. Kingsleyj: I can chip in with Tamil script as well Kingsleyj 23:20, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  23. Kiwehtin Interested in writing new articles and improving articles on scripts and numeral systems in several areas. (Malay archipelago script families, individual scripts and numeral notation systems; North Indic Nagari scripts; East African and Malagasy Arabic scripts; sign language notation/writing systems by typology, families and individual systems; sign language manual alphabets and numeral systems — again, by typology, historical relationships, and individual systems.) Improving sidebar presentation of historical relationships between scripts to reflect substantiated claims in the primary literature. Adding material on variation in various scripts: historical, regional, handwriting vs typography etc. Kiwehtin (talk) 02:05, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  24. Kwami: Have contributed to hangul, rongorongo, Cree syllabics, Middle Bronze Age alphabets, Mayan glyphs, Signwriting, IPA, &c., so I should probably throw my name in. Currently have access to a copy of Daniels & Bright, which is uneven but a good all-around reference. Glad to help where I can. kwami (talk) 08:59, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  25. Lolinder (talk): Interested in writing systems, unsure how much help I can be.
  26. Mikhailov Kusserow
  27. ムーカオズルール(Talk to Moo) 05:33, 26 December 2008 (UTC), I can read Hiragana, Katakana, a lot of Kanji, some Hangul, Hanja, Hanzi, Bopomofo (a lot of the East Asian writing systems).[reply]
  28. Msanford (talk) 19:12, 4 March 2008 (UTC) Arabic, Greek and interested in starting a task force to improve and audit transliterations into English for which the original text is not provided (i.e., provide the original text).[reply]
  29. User:Msheflin Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, some Hebrew, some Indonesian, can read the (at least individual letters of...) various predecessor Semitic scripts
  30. User:Murraytheb Arabic
  31. node
  32. nohat
  33. ocrasaroon (talk) 23:22, 15 February 2009 (UTC) Native English with a moderate understanding of both written and conversational Latin. I zero in on grammar, spelling, sentence structure, etc...[reply]
  34. OwenBlacker
  35. Pgfeller (talk · contribs)
  36. pjacobi
  37. Ragib - I can help with any Bengali language scripts. --Ragib 02:31, 5 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  38. Raven: Multiple language/script interests, see details at my user page to save space here. — Raven (talk) 11:07, 26 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  39. Rppeabody I have a strong amateur interest in writing systems, particularly ancient and undeciphered scripts. Unfortunately, the only languages I am familiar with are English, Spanish, and French.
  40. Sarayuparin
  41. sephia karta Mainly Devanagari and Abkhaz Alphabet
  42. Shannon Garcia – various Cyrillics, kana and some kanji, Kartveli
  43. Shruti14 can help with many including Indian languages
  44. Siva 23:26, 19 July 2005 (UTC) Especially interested in beefing up the Shorthand articles (particularly Pitman's).[reply]
  45. Sundar I can participate where I can and will also use any template we decide upon to Tamil script
  46. Tea and crumpets 03:20, 17 June 2007 (UTC) Interested in Japanese, and any other language that sparks my interest. Hope I can be of some help.[reply]
  47. Umofomia - mainly Chinese
  48. User:Universal Life Universal Life (talk) 09:19, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  49. VanIsaac 16:49, 20 June 2011 (UTC) - Probably the go-to guy for shorthands (Unicode encoder of Duployan shorthand). Interested in syllabries, abugidas (esp. old Brahmic scripts), and Han morphographs - they symbolize morphemes, so they're not ideographs.[reply]
  50. Washi Interested in writing systems in general; have edited pages on Baybayin and the Arkolochori Axe. Washi (talk) 20:39, 11 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  51. WilliamThweatt I can help with Khmer script, Thai, Lao, various Cyrillics, Greek, Hebrew and related scripts. Just contact me and let me know how I can help!
  52. Yenx I have little time, but know about 10 writing systems almost perfectly and would love to improve the articles, it's needed!
  53. Yung Wei綪永徽 00:23, 4 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  54. 名無し

Currently inactive participants

The following members of WikiProject Writing Systems have been inactive editors for more than one year:

  1. Atura 14:17(AEST) 2 December 2006 - English is my native language, i understand some Japanese and can read Hiragana and Katakana and some Kanji, also understand the Greek alphabet. Im more involved in neating up pages making them 'universal'
  2. BalkanFever 02:16, 28 December 2007 (UTC) - Can help with Cyrillic, Latin and IPA.[reply]
  3. User:Ephraim6888 10 April 2007 (UTC) – Devanagiri, Telugu, Kannada.
  4. K.A.David: I speak English, Filipino (Tagalog), Cebuano, I can read Japanese Kana, Hangul, a few Chinese Characters, the Greek Alphabet and a little bit of Hebrew. I hope I can help!
  5. Nightsky: What a great idea! I'm chiefly interested in Western European scripts, such as those of the Middle Ages. Nightsky 21:40, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Mbrutus 15:23, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  7. MinYinChao
  8. Nofate I would very much like to work on this project in many aspects, but would probably be the most helpful with the Chinese Character WikiProject Nofate 00:12, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Novinha – various dead languages, primarily mesoamerican ones.
  10. N-true – mainly Caucasian and some South Asian ones; also IPA.
  11. pieandcheeseandcereal
  12. Randfan
  13. Reliable♪ Forevertalk 23:26, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  14. Selethryth (talk) 02:36, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Stammer. Hopefully I can help with Tibetan. Stammer 12:04, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The following user is retired:

  1. GSMR: I speak and read English, Sanskrit, Hindi (both use Devanagari) and Russian, which uses Cyrillic. If you need my help with anything, let me know.

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.

Example Article structure and format

The appropriate infoboxes should be included (see template section)

  • Introduction: Cover the type of writing system (Alphabet, Syllabary, Abjad, etc.), which languages it transcribes, and its time period. Also cover information which is needed in order to understand further information in the article (i.e. something is not always the case, or the writing system has different names).
  • History: Cover the previous writing system(s) that it descended from and how it happened. Alternatively, if it is artificial, describe the creator(s) and how they made it.
  • Description: A chart of the writing system is given, as well as specifics about how it is written (printed and handwritten styles, whether it goes left to right or right or left, etc.)
  • Usage: When and where it is used, political situation, etc.
  • Unicode Specify any ranges the writing system possesses in unicode.

Classification and hierarchy schemes

Writing systems can be discussed in a classified hierarchy.

Goals

Common goals and protocols suggested for the project to be documented here.

  1. Standardise all writing system articles, utilize {{Infobox Writing system}}
  2. Improve the general quality of writng systems articles...bring a few to good and featured status
  3. Start a portal
  4. Include complimentary visual images of each writing system in its article (at least one per article)

Project Tasklists

Here is an organized list of current projects, jobs, etc. which this project aims to accomplish, or at least aid in the success thereof.

To-Do list

Open task assignments

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.

Article adoption

Individual articles, stubs, or proposed articles may be identified here for specific collaboration and coordination of efforts.

Awards

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.


The Writing Systems' Red Star can be awarded to any editor who substantially contributes to articles on ancient and extinct scripts in WikiProject Writing Systems, whether that editor is a member or not. Any member may award the Red Star by copying {{subst:WPWSredstar|your message ~~~~}} to the recipient's talk page.

Templates

All writing system templates should be listed here. They should also be listed at Category:Writing system templates.

Infoboxes

Stub templates

General templates

Script series templates

Categories

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.

Primary category

Parent categories

Subcat— Terminology

Subcat— Taxonomic

Subcat— Linguistic Script families

Subcat— Notational Script families

Subcat- ISO 15924

Lists

Articles

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.

Main article(s)

(i.e., primary or overview articles)

Writing systems

Writing system terminology

(i.e., articles concerned with technical definitions and terminology used in the description or study of writing systems)

acrophony allograph grapheme orthography

Writing system taxonomy

(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

WS— Ancient

Resources and references

Links to, or details of, commonly-used, important and authorative resources and reference works to appear here.

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