Everyone will start ignoring it, as soon as the
Moldovan Wikipedia gets out
of the
domain. No one would give a damn about it.
On 7/4/06, Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com > wrote:
Would it really make everyone happy?
No.
There would still be people whinging endlessly that it should be
closed and/or deleted.
Mark
On 03/07/06, Liviu Andronic < landronimirc(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I agree that simple ignoring of this project
would make it disappear in
a
one-two year time.
What the you do not get is that there is one simple solution: move mo to
mo-cyr. And everyone gets happy.
Is this so difficult?
On 7/2/06, Gerard Meijssen < gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hoi,
> You do not get it.
>
> It is an annoyance. One of the points made is that the Moldovan
> wikipedia is just trolling. Consider what makes a troll thrive;
> attention. The more attention that you give it, ANY attention the more
> it will get entrenched. There is this saying: "I do not care what they
> say about me as long as they write my name correctly", all this
> attention makes the mo.wikipedia "relevant". If it is not relevant,
> refrain from giving it attention and at some time it will just
> evaporate. If it does not, it cannot be considered trolling and you
are
> plain wrong.
>
> The best thing for you to do: shut up. Ignore this project. Everybody
> will be happier and maybe you will be proven to be right.
>
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
>
> Liviu Andronic wrote:
> > I would have to object to the position taken by people who can make
a
> > difference.
> >
> > IMHO, all this Moldovan issue annoys you as much as it does me. I do
not
> > want to dispute on this, as much as you
do not want to read all this
> junk.
> >
> > I am wondering if the Moldovan Wikipedia is such unimportant an
issue.
I
>
> > agree that it is a rarely used Wikipedia. And still, for an
unimportant
> > Wikipedia, it does create a lot of
headache to the entire community.
If
> this
> > issue flames every three months on this mailing list and on all
possible
>
> > Talk pages and triggers revert-wars on related English and Moldovan
> > Wikipedia articles, then I believe that there is obviously a
problem.
> >
> > Not that this entire dispute be fair or ethical - it is a dirty war
that
> I
> > personally detest -, but is it an ethically correct position for
those
> who
> > can make a difference to just ignore?
> >
> > Is it so unimportant that a whole Wikipedia section could create
> confusion
> > and desinformation? Isn't Wikipedia supposed to provide a "free
> encyclopedia
> > of the highest possible quality"?
> >
> > Personally for me, it is strange how people with the ability to take
and
>
> > implement a decision, simply choose to ignore. All possible and
> impossible
> > arguments were already presented here, on the mailing list, and all
over
> > the English and Moldovan Wikipedia, and
on Metawiki. What rests to
do is
> use
> > common sense to decide on this issue.
> >
> > It is even stranger for me the way a decision already taken by
stewards
> and
> > bureaucrats was simply ignored and not implemented.
> >
> > But, then, it is up to the decision-makers to decide the stance to
> adopt. I
> > still hope that they will choose as soon as possible to stop
> deliberately
> > ignoring this issue. The problem is that this issue will not cease
> > re-appearing on this mailing-list. My reason for this is that an
entire
> > country and population (this makes an
approximate 3.5 million
persons)
> are
> > incorrectly represented on Wikipedia. And one of these, or me - if
no
> one
> > else does it -, will certainly re-open this discussion in a
two-three
> months
> > time.
> >
> > If you managed to read till this point, thank you.
> >
> > Liviu
> >
> > On 6/30/06, Brion Vibber < brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Jacky PB wrote:
> >>
> >>> Where are the decision makers? Isn't there nobody
> >>>
> >> No one else is interested in this issue, and getting involved would
> mean
> >> wasting
> >> a lot of time with people fighting a lot over something
unimportant.
> The
> >> safest
> >> course is thus to leave a rarely-used wiki sitting there, same as
we
do
>>
with
>> dozens of other rarely-used wikis and nobody minds.
>>
>> -- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)
>>
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