Yeah. Despite their constant assertions to the otherwise, I can
testify that Romanians are collectively Russophobic. I don't really
blame them, given the role Russia has had in their history.
Danutz claimed that it was a "coincidence" that they removed the
Cyrillic character from the ball in the logo to replace it with a
Romanian one, that they were just replacing a letter at random, not
because it was Cyrillic. But I do not believe this.
Certainly, it is a basic difficulty that most Romanians don't know
Cyrillic well enough to be able to write it, although they can
probably read it with some difficulty (just as someone who knew
Serbian Latin but not Cyrillic could eke their way through a text).
Presumably, though, it could be solved that editbox text, too, would
be converted.
But still, ro.wp would probably vote against the very idea of having
Cyrillic on their WP in any way, shape, or form. They've said some
pretty interesting stuff about it, like how badly it fits the
language, despite the fact that it is linguistically much
better-suited (more phonetic and has no digraphs, represents some
distinctions that Latin does not, and combines a couple of
diphthongs), and a hostile attitude in general through various
actions.
I'm guessing that a long-term solution (ie, when the internet comes to
Transnistria in its entirety) would be some form of a transliterating
portal, if not a separate WP. (likely the Romanian domination of power
would anger Nistrians regarding POV disputes)
Mark
On 15/11/06, Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/15/06, Brion Vibber <brion(a)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 ;) )
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