Hello Amir -
So when do you move a Wikipedia from the Incubator to the Wikipedia.org site? 
What milestone needs to be met to have that happen?

Val ;-)

Valerie Sutton
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> On May 31, 2016, at 9:19 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> I say the same the thing to all the people who write in all the Incubators: 
> Write more articles in the Incubator in your language. That's the single most 
> important thing.
> 
> If there is any technical issue that prevents you from writing or reading 
> articles, I'd love to hear details about them.
> 
> 
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> 2016-05-25 11:03 GMT-07:00 Valerie Sutton <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>:
> Hello Everyone -
> Thank you for this attention to the ASL Wikipedia. I am not a software 
> developer myself. I just see Deaf ASL writers posting articles in the ASL 
> Wikipedia on Incubator, so from my perspective it seems to be working...
> 
> I notice that Gerard mentioned that there may be some technical issues that 
> "do not come to light" in the incubator... If this is true, then maybe we can 
> work on those issues right now.
> 
> What is needed from us to improve the ASL Wikipedia?
> 
> Val ;-)
> 
> ---------------------------------
> 
> 
> 
>> On May 25, 2016, at 10:38 AM, MF-Warburg <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 2016-05-24 17:12 GMT+02:00 Gerard Meijssen <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>>:
>> Hoi,
>> It takes a font that is available from the MediaWiki software. I know that 
>> ASL does not fulfill our formal requirements but the flipside is that there 
>> are many technical issues that do not come to light in the Incubator.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Do you mean that ASL in Incubator has technical problems which would be 
>> solved by moving to a subdomain?
>> The opposite was said by Valerie: "Meanwhile, we already have functioning 
>> Sign Language Wikipedias on the Wikimedia Incubator, without Unicode, and we 
>> can type the edits directly on the web in full correctly-written 
>> SignWriting, and we have all the layout issue solved and we are reading in 
>> vertical columns...all this without Unicode." etc. "I predict that articles 
>> will continue to be written in the Incubator and that is wonderful!"
>> 
>> 
>>  
>> The purpose of having a Wikipedia in ASL is that we will learn how to do a 
>> top down oriented language. It is a first. What it also does is give a ton 
>> of positive attention to both Wikipedia and the use of Sign Writing. So as I 
>> have indicated, the formal requirements are in this a hindrance. With ASL 
>> live, we will gain the technical issues clear. We will find that more people 
>> will start writing ASL and focus it on Wikipedia. 
>> 
>> 
>> With this argumentation, we could approve just anything because it will give 
>> positive attention to language XY. No thanks.
>> 
>>  
>> All reasons why we should.
>> Thanks,
>>       GerardM
>> 
>> On 24 May 2016 at 15:16, MF-Warburg <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>>wrote:
>> I take it you didn't read my mail.
>> 
>> Am 24.05.2016 14:23 schrieb "Gerard Meijssen" <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>>:
>> Hoi,
>> I take it that there are no objections and I intent to move forward.
>> Thanks,
>>       GerardM
>> 
>> On 15 May 2016 at 08:47, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Hoi,
>> Have a look at this [1]. It clearly shows that a lot of work needs to be 
>> done to get MediaWiki right for sign languages with SignWriting. 
>> 
>> I propose that we let ASL be a Wikipedia It enables all the work that needs 
>> doing to make it work properly. It deserves it imho as well.
>> Thanks,
>>      GerardM
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 1. 
>> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ase/M510x546S20320495x455S1fb20495x474S1f720490x497S11a20495x516_M511x551S18620493x450S1f720489x483S11a20494x502S20320494x536
>>  
>> <https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ase/M510x546S20320495x455S1fb20495x474S1f720490x497S11a20495x516_M511x551S18620493x450S1f720489x483S11a20494x502S20320494x536>
>> 
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