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Discussion at Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2021_October_29#Ɥ for where to rd the character itself when we have an article on the letter, such as turned h for 'Ɥ' (the capital of which has no IPA use). VanIsaac, MPLL contWpWS 22:54, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
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Dear WikiProject Writing Systems,
I am a new editor on Wikipedia who is interested in an array of subjects. The Wikipedia algorithm tasked me with adding references to the Latin letters used in Mathematics page! However, as I am new to referencing, fully citing this long list has been tough. I realised that this article falls underneath your WikiProject and I would love any assistance in fully referencing this important article! Kabiryani (talk) 18:15, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
I got a notification of a redirects for discussion happening at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 April 3#Ṝ that concerns letters with diacritics and whether they should be targeted at their diacritics, a transcription/transliteration standard that uses them, or somewhere else. Hopefully someone has something more cogent than I was able to come up with. VanIsaac, MPLL contWpWS 02:14, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like
John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.
)and turns it into something like
It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.
The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.
Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.
This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:02, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
The lead says " The term "writing systems" is used here loosely to refer to groups of glyphs which appear to have representational symbolic meaning, but which may include "systems" that are largely artistic in nature and are thus not examples of actual writing."
So it's not surprising that many of the examples don't seem to be systems at all. Doug Weller talk 15:15, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
Lexilogos multilingual keyboard Flag Mechanic (talk) 13:55, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
I've reviewed ongoing contributions by 2603:6010:7504:46C0:* and left those which seem useful or at least plausible. However, I've had to revert many which replace correct Cyrillic characters by Latin or Greek letters, usually similar but sometimes unrelated. I've left several messages but the IP hops within the /64 and may not have seen them. I'm not a linguist and would appreciate a second opinion on these edits. Certes (talk) 11:04, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
I've been digitizing the cuneiform article in the 1911 EB at Wikisource, and am stuck on one: looks like it's maybe wikt:𒇽, but I can't ID the bottom-left stroke, and without a reading there's nothing else to go on. Can anyone here verify? — kwami (talk) 01:46, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
A proposal is opened at WP:COMP § Taskforce WP Unicode –_proposal. Please take a look. DePiep (talk) 09:38, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
Currently, the Category:Unicode charts templates are updated with every new Unicode release that they are up to date with it. Since more than a third of the blocks are already fully allocated and will therefore not receive any changes that would need to be reflected in our tables, I believe it would be easier if we could just use a template with the newest version of Unicode to only need to update that for those blocks. 1234qwer1234qwer4 13:00, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
Last updated=
, which could be checked in relation to the universal value to see which one is greater. So that all you have to do is save updating the base value parameter until after you've updated all of the changed charts, each of which gets Last updated=xx.0
and displays that new version number once they've been updated. The unchanged charts would get the new version last. This would enable us to have tracking categories like Category:Unicode charts last updated in v. 16.0 to make sure that we've hit all the needed changes before rolling out everything to the next version. And that template would be appropriate for all of the unicode chart templates, regardless of whether they are "complete". VanIsaac, LLE contWpWS 19:30, 18 September 2022 (UTC)|date accessed=2021
or|version=14.0
?). Maybe we need a {{cite Unicode}} template. -DePiep (talk) 05:16, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
I have nominated Rongorongo for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. A455bcd9 (talk) 18:25, 14 October 2022 (UTC)
Unreviewed featured articles/2020 (URFA/2020) is a systematic approach to reviewing older Featured articles (FAs) to ensure they still meet the FA standards. A January 2022 Signpost article called "Forgotten Featured" explored the effort.
Progress is recorded at the monthly stats page. Through 2022, with 4,526 very old (from the 2004–2009 period) and old (2010–2015) FAs initially needing review:
Of the FAs kept, deemed satisfactory by three reviewers, or delisted, about 60% had prior review between 2004 and 2007; another 20% dated to the period from 2008–2009; and another 20% to 2010–2015. Roughly two-thirds of the old FAs reviewed have retained FA status or been marked "satisfactory", while two-thirds of the very old FAs have been defeatured.
Entering its third year, URFA is working to help maintain FA standards; FAs are being restored not only via FAR, but also via improvements initiated after articles are reviewed and talk pages are noticed. Since the Featured Article Save Award (FASA) was added to the FAR process a year ago, 38 FAs were restored to FA status by editors other than the original FAC nominator. Ten FAs restored to status have been listed at WP:MILLION, recognizing articles with annual readership over a million pageviews, and many have been rerun as Today's featured article, helping increase mainpage diversity.
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But there remain almost 4,000 old and very old FAs to be reviewed. Some topic areas and WikiProjects have been more proactive than others in restoring or maintaining their old FAs. As seen in the chart below, the following have very high ratios of FAs kept to those delisted (ordered from highest ratio):
and others have a good ratio of kept to delisted FAs:
... so kudos to those editors who pitched in to help maintain older FAs !
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But looking only at the oldest FAs (from the 2004–2007 period), there are 12 content areas with more than 20 FAs still needing review: Biology, Music, Royalty and nobility, Media, Sport and recreation, History, Warfare, Meteorology, Physics and astronomy, Literature and theatre, Video gaming, and Geography and places. In the coming weeks, URFA/2020 editors will be posting lists to individual WikiProjects with the goal of getting these oldest-of-the-old FAs reviewed during 2023.
Ideas for how you can help are listed below and at the Signpost article.
More regular URFA and FAR reviewers will help assure that FAs continue to represent examples of Wikipedia's best work. If you have any questions or feedback, please visit Wikipedia talk:Unreviewed featured articles/2020/4Q2022.
If you review an article on this list, please add commentary at the article talk page, with a section heading == [[URFA/2020]] review== and also add either Notes or Noticed to WP:URFA/2020A, per the instructions at WP:URFA/2020. If comments are not entered on the article talk page, they may be swept up in archives here and lost. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:40, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Kaktovik_numerals#Displaying_the_characters_in_the_article for issues related to display of characters and accessibility. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 11:03, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:En-ghe#Requested move 16 February 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 16:40, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
Initially about circumflex/caret recently, but wider. @John Maynard Friedman: about our (your) recent additions [2]. Noting this here for possible future development. First, I'm short in time so I must talk in brief statements.
I highly appreciate the addition of graphical similar symbols. Somewhow somewhere, a reader might expect these to be present (and even presented as unknown but related extras. For example, one does not want to miss hightly related caret). But we also know that placement and way of introduction of these extras is not smooth yet (aka problematic, unresolved). Maybe a more dedicated section is useful ("similar graphs"?).
In the topic diacritics & punctuation: graphs & meanings, first distinction we (wiki) must make is graph versus meaning/usage/name. Basically, this leads to two sets of articles (which could be merged while keeping this discernment). Best example is Two dots (diacritic), which is detached from "name/meaning", while serving all aspects. See Two dots (DAB), top down.
TL;DR: Proposal, thoughts: I think all caret-like graphs topics should get the same setup as two dots c.a. Somehow, this two-branch tree approach better be formalised (some MOS guideline). Alas, if there was more time in a day. DePiep (talk) 06:09, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
Per WP:NCWS, should Theban be a script or an alphabet? The same argument should presumably be applied to Shavian. (Enochian script doesn't have a separate article.) See Talk:Theban script#Requested move 3 April 2023. — kwami (talk) 18:45, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class=
parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.
No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.
However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom
parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 22:41, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:N'Ko script#Requested move 10 April 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 14:33, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
The same applies to:
How would knotted cord encoded writing systems such as the Native American quipu be classified? Would they be treated more like 8-bit computer codes or put with hand gestures such as sign languages? They include features such as left-hand or right-hand angle of knot, color of cord, material of cord (cotton/hemp) and position/sequence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1004:B04F:7A50:A197:9D35:DEFC:EDD8 (talk) 14:18, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
I came across this page on NPP. I don't read Cyrillic, so I'm not sure if this is a notable letter and wanted to bring it here. Best, voorts (talk/contributions) 04:24, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
I have nominated Decipherment of rongorongo for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. a455bcd9 (Antoine) (talk) 09:47, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
Question added per WP:Help desk#Another question 2405:4802:64C7:BF70:20BF:895B:4915:B58A (talk) 05:08, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
Please can someone assist at Talk:B#Consistent proposal to unleash new format? We are trying to determine the best name for the thing of which B is the second letter. Thanks, Certes (talk) 18:16, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Vyaz (Cyrillic calligraphy)#Requested move 26 February 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 11:43, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Croatian Glagolitic#Requested move 26 February 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 18:05, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs#Requested move 1 March 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. RodRabelo7 (talk) 18:37, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
As far as I have read, these are two terms for the same field--i.e. the field that underlies this WikiProject. Obviously, Derrida's work is outsized and should be featured in any merger. Remsense 14:50, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
I noticed in some Wikipedia articles (e.g. Avestan alphabet, Zoroaster) Avestan letter ⟨𐬚⟩ is transliterated as ⟨θ⟩ but scholars prefer the slightly different Greek letter ⟨ϑ⟩ (open form); for example Gippert.-- Carnby (talk) 15:40, 12 March 2024 (UTC)