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

Mon Dec 5 05:04:40 UTC 2005

2005/12/4, Arbeo M <arbeo_m at yahoo.de>:
>  - Nevertheless,  on Wikipedia's homepage "Moldoveneasc&#259;" in not written in Latin script, like the Moldovan society has determined but in Cyrillic script like it was decreed in the unfree days of the Soviet union when the people of Moldova was not allowed to decide for themselves.

You probably don't know the history of the language well. In fact both
Romanian and Moldovans has been Orthodox Christians and used Cyrillic
script for several ages. The modern Latin script is relatively a news
in both lands. So one can's speak in such a self-confindent way about
Moldovan Cyrillics as "decreed in the unfree days". By the way, do you
know much about the unfree days? They were not totally that "unfree".
:) Be more neutral. ;)

>  - This gives the Moldovan internet user a bad impression of Wikipedia and irritates him or her because they can think that Wikipedia ignores what the independent nation of Moldova decides and rather goes by the standard from the Soviet era.

Maybe it would be a good choice just to move the whole thing to
__mo-cyr.wikipedia.org__, leaving at [[:mo:]] the two links -- to the
Romanian and to the old-fashioned Cyrillic-written Moldovan.

Sl.

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