[Foundation-l] Moldovan Wikipedia

Sat Nov 10 07:15:07 UTC 2007

It's a little melodramatic to classify every single minor dispute as  
"There's a war going on"; even by wikipedia standards.

-Dan
On Nov 10, 2007, at 2:02 AM, GerardM wrote:

> Hoi,
> As it is likely that there is more to this request, it would be  
> good to give
> it some background. When the request for closure for closing down the
> Moldovan Wikipedia is seen as absurd as closing down the Polish  
> Wikipedia,
> then it is a clear case of "be bold". Also we should be glad that  
> we do not
> life after the annexation of Poland in september 1939 when this  
> would have
> made political sense.
>
> As such I do not agree with the proposal but the analogy is strong.  
> There is
> a war going on and one expression of a language is prohibited by  
> law by one
> of the parties and we fail to appreciate it as such.
>
> Thanks,
>      GerardM
>
> On Nov 10, 2007 5:42 AM, Robert Horning  
> <robert_horning at netzero.net> wrote:
>
>> Mark Williamson wrote:
>>> On 09/11/2007, Robert Horning <robert_horning at netzero.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The primary criticism that I felt was valid in the whole mess  
>>>> was the
>>>> fact that only non-native speakers were even involved with creating
>>>> content for the Moldovan Wikipedia, including one particularly
>>>> argumentative individual who was an American that was blocked from
>>>> en.wikipedia due to flame and edit wars, and moved on to smaller  
>>>> wikis
>>>> like the Moldovan Wikipedia because he could be a "big fish" there.
>>  I'm
>>>> not sure where he picked up Romanian or Moldovan as a language,  
>>>> but he
>>>> was also quite active on several other language editions of  
>>>> Wikipedia
>> as
>>>> well, and was one of the leading opponents of closing down the  
>>>> Moldovan
>>>> Wikipedia.  In short, I don't really consider most of those  
>>>> opposed to
>>>> closing down this edition of Wikipedia to be all that credible,  
>>>> as has
>>>> been the general concensus on this issue when brought up on Meta.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm curious as to the identity of this individual. I'm guessing  
>>> you're
>>> referring to me; for your information, I'm not blocked on en.wp.
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Node_ue
>>>
>>> I also don't enjoy the badmouthing.
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>
>> So, you still stand by your request to shut down the Polish  
>> Wikipedia?
>>
>> -- Robert Horning
>>
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