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https://github.com/nbehrnd/dek_vs_svg

An Anki deck about DEK, a form of German stenography, built with public domain .svg illustrations found in wikimedia
https://github.com/nbehrnd/dek_vs_svg

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An Anki deck about DEK, a form of German stenography, built with public domain .svg illustrations found in wikimedia

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## background



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](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/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](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DEK_Deutsche_Einheitskurzschrift_-_Verkehrsschrift_-_Urheber.svg),

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](https://gnisitricks.de/de/2018/09/Automatisch-Karteikarten-erstellen-Teil-1/),

[second

part](https://gnisitricks.de/de/2020/05/Automatisch-Karteikarten-Teil-2/)).



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:



|   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](https://github.com/RazrFalcon/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](https://github.com/nbehrnd/DEK_VS_svg/releases) as an asset), or

about 50 MB within Anki's folder `collection.media` after the import

into the program.