User:Slevinski/SignWriting/News
The Tech News summarizes recent SignWriting developments likely to impact you and your fellow users on Incubator.
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2014 February
[edit | edit source]Announcements
- SignWriting Gadget has been moved to the global space.
2014 January
[edit | edit source]Announcements
- 2 years of stability with Formal SignWriting and the associated query language. draft-slevinski-signwriting-text-02
- SignWriting Icon Server update. Available on GitHub. Hosted on Wikimedia Labs, SignBank, and SignPuddle.com.
2013 December
[edit | edit source]Announcements
- New category for Incubator, Test wikis of sign language.
2013 November
[edit | edit source]Announcements
- 52 articles in the American Sign Language Wikipedia on Incubator.
- Updated Internet Draft standard draft-slevinski-signwriting-text-02
New Features
- no line breaking before punctuation.
- first sign name as user name on Incubator, up to 3 symbols
Problems
- Occasionally the left side of left lane signs is cut off.
- The dividing vertical bar between the columns is not centered.
2013 October
[edit | edit source]New Features
- Several image caching options are now employed. Page loads now take a few seconds and do not freeze.
- The user interface is more responsive with noticeable improvements in the sign select highlighting.
Problems
- We are locked out of the ASL Wikipedia Project on Wikimedia Labs. It was deemed easier to complete the move to Incubator rather than fix the server. We are still locked out.
- The website [1] will be changed over to a static page about the ASL Wikipedia and how users can get involved.
2013 May
[edit | edit source]New Features
- SignWriting Gadget available on Wikimedia Incubator.
Events
- SignWriting represented at the Amsterdam Hackathon 2013
2013 April
[edit | edit source]New Features
- SignWriting JavaScript viewers available as web site script or bookmarklet.
- Rewrite of the SignWriting MediaWiki Plugin.