[Wikipedia-l] Moldovan wikipedia, again

Fri Jun 30 10:43:54 UTC 2006

In sort because they aren't as high profile. I'm sure if you put a
petition to close these down, the people who agree with this position
would vote for it. 

Fran

On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 17:56 -0700, Mark Williamson wrote:
> If Wikipedias with no native contributors are so evil, why don't you
> request locking of the over 100 Wikipedias for which this is the case?
> 
> You might say that none of them have any people writing, but that is
> not true. Wikipedias such as the Lingala Wikipedia (ln.wp) are filled
> with content created by non-native speakers, and you aren't
> complaining about them. Why is that? Why don't you go on a crusade to
> close the Lingala Wikipedia? Or the Maori Wikipedia?
> 
> Mark
> 
> On 29/06/06, Jacky PB <dpotop1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Gerard,
> >
> > I don't really understand what you are implying.
> >
> > But I can repeat why we ask for the deletion of
> > mo.wikipedia (all of these are already proven in
> > previous messages):
> >
> > 1. There is no community. Nobody on wikipedia is both
> > interested in having it and able to contribute.
> >
> > 2. All content is copied from ro.wikipedia and
> > transliterated. There are better, already tested ways
> > of changing script, if someone wants it.
> >
> > 3. In the current status, mo.wikipedia is in fact a
> > heaven for trolls of all sorts.
> >
> > Of course, deletion needs not be permanent. As soon as
> > the condition 1 becomes false (as soon as a community
> > forms), the moldovan wikipedia can be re-created.
> >
> > Yours,
> > Jacky
> >
> > --- Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Liviu Andronic wrote:
> > > > ... The big issue comes mainly from the
> > > desinformation that mo.wikipediacreates.
> > > >
> > > > The content that is currently on mo.wikipedia is
> > > written in a language that
> > > > is not used any more in the Republic of Moldova.
> > > It could be argued that
> > > > Moldovan is used by a minority in the territory of
> > > Moldova (in private and
> > > > personal matters), and by a part of population
> > > (mainly Moldovan schools) in
> > > > Transnistria.  Please note that Cyrillic Moldovan
> > > is not used on a large
> > > > scale (that is, generally speaking, you won't
> > > encounter Moldovan Cyrillic
> > > > anywhere in Moldova). At least for Moldova, I can
> > > assure you, as I am a
> > > > native Moldovan. As far as Transnistria is
> > > concerned, I really doubt it.
> > > >  Even the   official presidential website
> > > > <http://www.president-pmr.org/>doesn't
> > > > contain any Cyrillic Moldovan content. ...
> > > >
> > > Hoi,
> > > Either the information is correct, and given that it
> > > is said to be
> > > information from the Romanian language Wikipedia it
> > > should be both
> > > correct and NPOV. If it is not correct or NPOV,
> > > /both/ the Romanian and
> > > the Moldovian language Wikipedia are to be
> > > considered problematic. All
> > > the rest is very much politics, posturing and
> > > intransigence.
> > >
> > > I am sure that this continued existence is best
> > > ignored. Consider you
> > > are either a party to this dispute or you could not
> > > care less. When  the
> > > argument is that the mo wikipedia is occupied by
> > > trolls, remember they
> > > thrive by getting attention.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >    GerardM
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