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(a)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(a)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.