[Wikipedia-l] Moldovan wikipedia: when is this farce going to end?

Thu Jun 29 21:05:34 UTC 2006

Is this real?

Where are the administrators of wikipedia?

This is a blatant show of maliciousness, and nobody
says anything? A load of disinformation is really
better than

--- Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:

> Another difference is Greater Romania POV.
> 
> Articles on ro.wp tend to be written slightly
> slanted towards a Romanian view.
> 
> Romanian Wikipedians may deny this, but one has only
> to compare the
> Romanian and English articles on [[Moldova]],
> [[Transnistria]], [[Igor
> Smirnov]], [[URSS]]/[[USSR]], etc. to know.
> 
> While some Moldovans share this opinion, the opinion
> base in Moldova
> is vastly different. While it would be best to work
> together, in the
> current situation ro.wp is dominated by a huge
> majority of Romanians,
> so any moderate or nationalist Moldovan (as opposed
> to unionist), or
> someone favouring closer ties to Russia, would
> likely get little say
> in that Wikipedia.
> 
> This situation might be considered similar to the
> reason why the
> current Bosnian, Serbian, and Croatian Wikipedias
> are incompatible for
> a merger -- there are many POV articles on each
> Wikipedia due to
> systemic biases that people do not realise are
> present.
> 
> If Romanian Wikipedians tried to make their articles
> conform to the
> same POV standard as the English Wikipedia does,
> this would not be an
> issue.
> 
> Mark
> 
> On 29/06/06, Lorenzarius <lorenzarius at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I don't know any "Moldovan", but if the difference
> between "Moldovan"
> > and Romanian is merely a difference in the
> alphabet used, we don't
> > even need an external script for the conversions:
> because MediaWiki
> > already supports such conversions (this function
> is introduced in
> > version 1.4). This function is currently being
> used on the Chinese (to
> > convert between traditional/simplified Chinese)
> and Serbian (to
> > convert between Cyrillic/Latin alphabet)
> Wikipedia. In fact the
> > situation on zh: is much more complicated than
> merely a difference in
> > alphabet, and I can assure you that the initial
> discussion on zh:
> > (e.g. whether to split or not; whether a technical
> solution is
> > adequate enough) is no less painful than the
> current one I see here.
> > But as a native Chinese speaker, I think our use
> of a technical
> > solution to overcome a not-so-technical problem
> works out pretty well
> > so far and that we did indeed make a correct
> decision to not to split.
> >
> > For more info:
> > http://zh.wikipedia.org/
> >
>
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Transwiki:Wikimania05/Paper-ZZ1
> >
>
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Automatic_conversion_between_simplified_and_traditional_Chinese
> > http://sr.wikipedia.org/
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_Wikipedia
> > --
> > Larry Lo
> > http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lorenzarius
> > Tel: +852 95825791
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