I don't know how organised it is, but there is certainly a semi-united
effort against the wiki.
Most of the activity happens at the actual Wiki, with people blanking
pages and saying nasty comments on talkpages, with very little of the
activity carrying over to wikipedia-l.
The thing is, Liviu's assertions simply don't stand. It would seem
that the average Moldovan simply doesn't care. There have been several
posts about it at
moldova.net. Some people are outraged, others think
it is "cool", and others don't seem to care much one way or the other.
The agitations we have seen in Wikimedia are mostly repeated attempts
from the same few people. Most of them are Romanians: Bogdan Giusca,
Ronline, Danutz, Dpotop, AdiJapan, Bonaparte, etc., all with varying
positions but all leaning towards the deletion of that Wiki.
Our lovely Moldovans here are Liviu, Vania (aka TSO1D), and Oleg
Alexandrov. Oleg Alexandrov took a very middle-of-the-road position
(he believed it should exist, but that it wouldn't ever work because
there would never be enough competent contributors), but he seems to
have given up completely any involvement he had.
Everyone else has just popped in occasionally for votes, or to make a
single comment.
Mark
On 29/11/06, Liviu Andronic <landronimirc(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm starting to get the feeling that these
messages to the mailing
list are an organised campaign against mo.wikipedia.
I honestly doubt about the existance of "an organised campaign against
mo.wikipedia". Simply, there are people interested in this matter and that are quite
not OK with the current status-quo. And they present you with their opinion.
There were three-four such sparkling discussions on this list, and at least in two cases
the discussions were started by persons that I've never seen neither on the list, nor
on talk pages. And I'm advocating for a status-quo change for quite some time.
When people see something wrong on Wikipedia (in their opinion of course;
not to be entirely neglected in this case, as it is the opinion of people who speak this
language; I am yet to see one Moldovan publicly supporting this mo.wikipedia on this
list); so when there is something wrong on Wikipedia, the first natural reaction is to
report it to the mailing list, with the appropriate arguments. So that I do not see
anything wrong with this. If this problem isn't solved in a year or two, it's
quite normal that reports will keep coming in. One way or another there will be people
finding out about this Wikipedia and writing to the list.
Moldovans never asked for this Wikipedia and they are quite negatively intentioned
towards its existance. And it's about their language that we are talking about. But
then, they cannot do much other than report. They cannot nor make a decision, nor
implement existing decisions.
My brief remarks,
Liviu
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