[Foundation-l] [Wikipedia-l] mo.wikipedia.org when will you stop making joke of us ?

Fri Nov 14 10:29:19 UTC 2008

Hoi,
if it is a requirement that the mo.wikipedia is to be transliterated and
intergrated in the ro.wikipedia, nobody is going to do it. People who
read/write the latin script will be of the opinion that the quality is not
good enough. The people who read/write cyrillic will gain nothing by doing
this, quite the contrary.

The fact of the matter is that as long as there is no transliteration to
Cyrillic there will be reasonable opposition. Even with transliteration, it
can be expected that there will be a bias against people who prefer Cyrillic
as they are seen as the enemy. The conflict of the existence of the
mo.wikipedia has not gone away. By closing the mo.wikipedia a controversial
route has been taken, a route that includes an exit in the re-opening of the
mo.wikipedia when native readers/writers ask for this.
Thanks,
       GerardM

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:14 AM, Marcus Buck <me at marcusbuck.org> wrote:

> Marcus Buck hett schreven:
> > Mark Williamson hett schreven:
> >
> >> It would be quite simple. Theoretically, it could be a tab at
> >> ro.wiki.......... but politically that seems unlikely to garner
> >> approval from ro.wikipedians.
> >>
> >> Mark
> >>
> >>
> > How many percent of the Moldovan or Transnistrian population or how many
> > people in absolute numbers are able to read Cyrillic, but are completely
> > unable to read Latin script?
> >
> > If that number is "non-marginal", we should provide Cyrillic.
> >
> > If it is not allowed to write articles in Cyrillic (so only conversion
> > from Latin to Cyrillic and not the other way round) and if the
> > conversion button is deactivated by default, but if it is possible to
> > activate the "show Cyrillic script" button by a gadget and if there is a
> > little box on the Main Page describing (in Cyrillic) how to activate the
> > gadget, I guess that should be a solution with which the Latin Romanians
> > can live and which should enable all Cyrillic-only users to at least
> > read the Wikipedia.
> >
> > Marcus Buck
> And to make a comment on the original question of this thread:
> I agree, that the closed wiki under mo.wikipedia.org should be removed.
> If not already done, all content present in that wiki should be
> transliterated and integrated into the Romanian
>  Wikipedia and afterwards mo.wikipedia should be deleted completely.
>
> Marcus Buck
>
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