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--- manual:color_codes [2017/01/23 16:00] – johanneke
+++ manual:color_codes [2017/01/31 11:56] – [Colour code table] johanneke
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-The colour codes correspond with descriptions of language vitality given by three websites: the website of Unesco's Atlas for languages in danger, the online Ethnologue, and the Endangered Languages website. Each website uses its own, unrelated, system to rate a language's vitality, using terms such as "vulnerable", "endangered", "critically endangered", etc. Mercator's wiki chooses to represent these vitality descriptions with colour codes, so that the viewer can quickly get an idea of the language's vitality.
+====== Filling out the colour code table ======
 To fill out the colour codes for a specific language:
-  * look up the vitality ratings of a language on the three websites;
+  * look up a language's vitality rating on these three websites: [[http://www.unesco.org/languages-atlas/|UNESCO]], [[https://www.ethnologue.com/language/fry/|Ethnologue]], [[http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/10425|Endangered Languages]];
-  * look up these ratings in the table below;
+  * look up these ratings in the table below, and determine to what colour codes they correspond;
-  * fill out the vitality table on the language's fact sheet with the three colour codes that corresponds to the descriptions mentioned on the three websites.
+  * fill out the vitality table on the language's fact sheet with the three colour codes: the colour codes can be inserted using the Media Manager. Once in the Media manager, the colour codes are located in the folder "endangerment".
-Please see the table below
-^ UNESCO                   |   ^ Ethnologue's EGIDS      |   ^ Endangered language's LEI  |   |   |
+===== Colour code table =====
-| safe                     | {{ :endangerment:white.png?nolink |safe}}  | 0: International        |   | safe                       |   |   |
-|                          |                                                  | 1: National              |   |                            |   |   |
+^ UNESCO                   |                                                                ^ Ethnologue's EGIDS      |          ^ Endangered language's LEI  |
-|                          |                                                  | 2: Provincial           |   |                            |   |   |
+| safe | {{ :endangerment:white.png?nolink |safe}} | 0: International | {{ :endangerment:purple.png?nolink |safe}} | safe | {{ :endangerment:white.png?nolink |safe}} |
-|                          |                                                  | 3: Wider Communication  |   |                            |   |   |
+|      |  | 1: National      | {{ :endangerment:purple.png?nolink |safe}} |      |                                           |
-|                          |                                                  | 4: Educational          |   |                            |   |   |
+|      |  | 2: Provincial    | {{ :endangerment:purple.png?nolink |safe}} |      |                                           |
-|                          |                                                  | 5: Developing           |   |                            |   |   |
+|      |  | 3: Wider Communication  |{{ :endangerment:purple.png?nolink |safe}} |  |                                         |
-|                          |                                                  | 6a: Vigorous            |   | At risk                    |   |   |
+|      |  | 4: Educational          |{{ :endangerment:purple.png?nolink |safe}} |  |                                         |
-| vulnerable               | {{ :endangerment:white.png?nolink |vulnerable}}  | 6b: Threatened          |   | vulnerable                 |   |   |
+|      |  | 5: Developing           |{{ :endangerment:blue.png?nolink |safe}}   |  |                                         |
-| definitively endangered  |   | 7: in trouble           |   | threatened                 |   |   |
+|      |  | 6a: Vigorous            |{{ :endangerment:green.png?nolink |safe}}   | At risk | {{ :endangerment:green.png?nolink |safe}} |
-| severely endangered      |   | 8a: Moribund            |   | endangered                 |   |   |
+| vulnerable | {{ :endangerment:white.png?nolink |vulnerable}} | 6b: Threatened | {{ :endangerment:green.png?nolink |threatened}} | vulnerable | {{ :endangerment:orange.png?nolink |vulnerable }}   |
-|                          |   | 8b: dying               |   | severely endangered        |   |   |
+| definitively endangered  | {{ :endangerment:yellow.png?nolink |definitively endangered}}  | 7: in trouble  |  {{ :endangerment:yellow.png?nolink |definitively endangered}}        | threatened | {{ :endangerment:yellow.png?nolink |definitively endangered}} |
-| critically endangered    |   |                         |   | critically endangered      |   |   |
+| severely endangered | {{ :endangerment:orange.png?nolink |severely endangered }} | 8a: Moribund | {{ :endangerment:red.png?nolink |Moribund }} | endangered |  {{ :endangerment:red.png?nolink |Moribund }}  |
-| extinct                  |   | Extinct                 |   | Extinct                    |   |   |
+|   |   | 8b: dying | {{ :endangerment:red.png?nolink |dying}} | severely endangered  |  {{ :endangerment:red.png?nolink | severely endangered}}  |
-|                          |   |                         |   |                            |   |   |
+|critically endangered    | {{ :endangerment:red.png?nolink }}  | 9 | {{ :endangerment:red.png?nolink | 9 }} | critically endangered  | {{ :endangerment:red.png?nolink | critically endangered }}  |
-|                          |   |                         |   | dormant                    |   |   |
+| extinct |  {{ :endangerment:black.png?nolink |extinct }} | Extinct  |    {{ :endangerment:black.png?nolink |extinct }} | Extinct |   {{ :endangerment:black.png?nolink |extinct }} |
-|                          |   |                         |   | awakening                  |   |   |
+|   |   |   |   | dormant |  {{ :endangerment:grey.png?nolink |dormant }}  |
+|   |   |   |   | awakening| {{ :endangerment:grey.png?nolink |extinct }}   |
+===== Note on the wiki's use on colour codes =====
+The colour codes correspond with descriptions of language vitality given by three websites: the website of Unesco's Atlas for languages in danger, the online Ethnologue, and the Endangered Languages website. Each website uses its own, unrelated, system to rate a language's vitality, using terms such as "vulnerable", "endangered", "critically endangered", etc. Mercator's wiki chooses to represent these vitality descriptions with colour codes, so that the viewer can quickly get an idea of the language's vitality.