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Writing system articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
Featured article FA 1 1 1 3
GA 3 3 3 3 12
B 16 84 92 189 18 399
C 17 76 92 219 30 434
Start 4 136 361 1,022 62 1,585
Stub 2 21 476 52 551
List 2 12 14 425 1 7 461
Category 330 330
Disambig 13 13
File 28 28
Portal 2 2
Project 6 6
Redirect 10 30 60 202 302
Template 440 440
NA 1 35 36
Other 9 9
Assessed 42 324 614 2,396 1,066 169 4,611
Unassessed 1 1
Total 42 324 614 2,396 1,067 169 4,612
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 14,175 Ω = 4.76

Some Bharatpedians 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 Bharatpedians. 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 Bharatpedia:WikiProjects and Bharatpedia:WikiProject best practices.

TitleEdit

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.

ScopeEdit

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 WikiProjectsEdit

Related WikiProjects are listed below. Monitoring their development, usage and approach may be useful when considering this project's further expansion and direction.

Descendant WikiProjectsEdit

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

  • Defunct WikiProject Latin alphabet
  • Defunct WikiProject Chinese characters

Similar WikiProjectsEdit

Other thematically-related WikiProjects include:

Related WikiportalsEdit

Related CollaborationsEdit

  • No related Collaborations have yet been identified.

Sister project searches:Edit

Task ForcesEdit

Nuvola apps kdmconfig.png ParticipantsEdit

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.

Currently inactive participantsEdit

Retired participantsEdit

The following users are retired:

Example Article structure and formatEdit

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 schemesEdit

Writing systems can be discussed in a classified hierarchy.

For broader coverage of writing system article naming conventions, see WP:Naming conventions (writing systems).

GoalsEdit

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 TasklistsEdit

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 listEdit

Open task assignmentsEdit

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 adoptionEdit

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

  • Romic alphabet. Needs verification and perhaps expansion; historically important as the ancestor of the IPA. — Muskit Gergous (talk) 12:04, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

AwardEdit

 
 

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:BPWSstar|your message ~~~~}} to the recipient's talk page.

TemplatesEdit

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

InfoboxesEdit

Stub templatesEdit

General templatesEdit

Script series templatesEdit

CategoriesEdit

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 categoryEdit

Parent categoriesEdit

Subcat— TerminologyEdit

Subcat— TaxonomicEdit

Subcat— Linguistic Script familiesEdit

Subcat— Notational Script familiesEdit

Subcat- ISO 15924Edit

ListsEdit

ArticlesEdit

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)Edit

(i.e., primary or overview articles)

Writing systems

Writing system terminologyEdit

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

acrophony allograph grapheme orthography

Writing system taxonomyEdit

(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.)

WS— AncientEdit

Article naming conventionEdit

Further information: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (writing systems)
Script

The term 'script' is used with four meanings:

  1. A general segmental writing system, as opposed to its local instantiations:
  2. In the plural for a family or geographic group of such scripts. 'Writing systems' conveys the same idea:
  3. A calligraphic style. In many cases 'hand' may be used instead, and this may avoid confusion with other uses of the term 'script':
  4. A non-segmental writing system, especially one which is logographic, mixed, or of unknown character:
Alphabet

'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.

Syllabary
Exceptions

Exceptions may be made where a unambiguous conventional name exists, and thus 'script', 'alphabet', or 'syllabary' is not necessary:

Note: "hieroglyphics" is deprecated.

Exceptions may also occur where a different technical term is widely used:

Modifiers

Modifiers may be used for subtypes or other cases of disambiguation:

Characters

Names should include some indication that the article concerns a character, letter, or grapheme and not a word.

Resources and referencesEdit

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

Writing system article informationEdit

Article alertsEdit

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