[Wikipedia-l] Why MO.wikipedia. - Moldovan, are written in cyrillic ?

Sat Dec 3 18:04:45 UTC 2005

To Mark Williamson aka Node_ue,

>>Wikipedia is not about what is official and what is not. It's about
>>what is really happening.

I'm sorry but what IS happening in Moldova? I've moved to Moldova in 1991 
and I have NEVER seen romanian/moldovan written in cyrillic. And this is not 
the same as the usual "don't like it, don't watch it" TV kind of thing. MO 
is the ISO code for the official language in Moldova which is written using 
latin alphabet, therefore mo.wikipedia.org officially represents Moldova on 
wikipedia. Imagine someone visits mo.wiki, what does he see - the HORROR! a 
huge pile of mistakes (both in syntax and grammar), cyrillic alphabet, ugly 
unfinished interface again in cyrillic, so what impression does one make of 
Moldova ?

Basically I see this as one man (yes, Node_ue - you are the only admin) 
running the show and not allowing anyone to edit (the main page is blocked, 
also no way to edit the interface). If you want to do it properly remove the 
cyrillic pages, write everything in latin. Why don't you understand that you 
do is offending us. You don't know the language, you've never been to 
Moldova, you don't know the situation here, why are you running mo.wiki 
then, just to offend us ? At this point I see the site as making fun of 
Moldova and the people of Moldova, creating the false impression that people 
use cyrillic and are generally illiterate.

Give us the control of mo.wikipage and please stop vandalizing our language!

>>But it is undenyable that some people rather write in Cyrillic.

I see romanian is not the only language you are having problems with, it's 
"undeniable" last time I checked my dictionary. That aside, what do you have 
to back up your affirmation, I live here, I see the situation, I haven't 
seen anyone writing anything in cyrillic romanian/moldovan. And an important 
note is that we don't have something like "Moldovan language" in schools, 
the course is called "Romanian language/Limba Romana", we don't even have a 
"History of Moldova" it's "History of Romania".

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