[Wikipedia-l] Policy draft: Wikimedia projects are not the place for national constitution

Thu Nov 16 03:35:17 UTC 2006

On 11/15/06, Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
> > As long as there is no automated lossless
> > conversion from Latin to Cyrillic and from Cyrillic to Latin AND the
> > orthography used, MediaWiki does not provide the required functionality
> > for Romanian/Moldovan.
>
> That's a third thing, and an implementation detail for the given
> language (eg, already implemented for Serbian, etc). Nor is it related
> to the 'Multilingual MediaWiki' proposal.

Usage of scripts in articles on Serbian Wikipedia are regulated by
policy, not by software (if initial article is written in
Latin-Iyekavian, it should stay Latin-Iyekavian) and we are not quite
happy because of that (we want solution in which anyone may use it's
own script and variant inside of the code). And what we want, it is
necessary for Moldovan/Romanin case and for all other cases where
differences between orthographies are not inside of one cultural
space. (I.e., it is OK for Serbian Ekavian user to see Iyekavian text,
but I don't think that it would be OK for some Romanian user to have
to write in Moldovan Cyrillic ;) )