Wikimedia currently contains 39349 symbolizations about the first degree of simplification of Deutsche Einheitskurzschrift (DEK) which is known as Verkehrsschrift. The symbolizations are originally created by user Thirunavukkarasye-Raveendran (who is not author of this repository) as “ineligible for copyright and therefore in the public domain because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship” (example page, so far last consultation on <2023-06-30 Fri>). This project aims to compile a large sub set as bidirectional flash cards to facilitate selfstudy, i.e. to provide a handy reference of how to symbolize long hand in short hand, as well as the reading of short hand in one spot.
Within an Anki deck, flash cards can carry varying tags. Running a
customary study in an Anki session, this then allows the
interested to draw only cards of one sub topic from one deck for a
focused revision. The programmatic assignment of tags is inspired
by a presentation by Moritz Gnisia (first part, second part).
So far, only a small fraction of about 10% are indexed with a
different tag than DEK, which is the default. The sets available
are:
| <r> | <r> | |
| set | entries | Symbolisierungen thematisieren / symbolizations are about |
|---|---|---|
| A_DEK | 182 | Abkürzungen / abbreviations |
| B_DEK | 531 | Symbolisierung mit zwei Worten / two word symbolizations |
| C_DEK | 171 | Symbolisierung mit drei Worten / three word symbolizations |
| DEK | 34377 | (noch) nicht indizierter Grundeintrag / not (yet) indexed symbolization |
| E_DEK | 139 | Englisch / symbolization of English words |
| F_DEK | 120 | falsche Symbolisierung / erroneous symbolizations |
| G_DEK | 837 | geographische Beispiele / terms of geography |
| K_DEK | 280 | Beispiele zu Kürzeln / examples how to use Kuerzel |
| L_DEK | 55 | lateinische Begriffe / terms related to Latin |
| N_DEK | 48 | nicht empfohlene Symbolisierungen / not recommended symbolizations |
| O_DEK | 31 | Organizationen, Marken / organizations, trade marks (e.g., UNO) |
| P_DEK | 563 | Namen und Personen / names and historic personalities |
| U_DEK | 195 | Unterscheidungszeichen / use of special signs in symbolizations |
| V_DEK | 381 | vergleichende Gegenüberstellungen / contrasting comparisons |
| Z_DEK | 208 | kurze Sätze und Sprichworte / short phrases and proverbs |
| total | 38118 |
About 5% of the symbolizations available on Wikimedia’s servers are perceived to be not (yet) suitable for an inclusion in this Anki deck. For many of them, their dimension / scaling of representation differs (too) much in comparison to the examples compiled here; this however contradicts the aim to provide a consistent visual appeal within this Anki deck.
To obtain a deck still (reasonably) portable, the files about
individual symbolizations were simplified with svgcleaner. This
reduced the initial global file size (approx. 340 MB) of the raw
data to about 30 MB (the .apkg Anki package you should download
directly from the release page as an asset), or about 50 MB within
Anki’s folder collection.media after the import into the program.