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

Tue Dec 6 11:17:27 UTC 2005

So, if Moldovan is nothing else than Rumanian, and it happens that some 
people write it in Cyrillic alphabet, you don't do one wikipedia only 
that can be written in both alphabets (I guess that's the way zh.wiki or 
sh.wiki work). Maybe I'm missing out something or I'm being too naive, 
and I beg my pardon for it, but this seems quite an easy and obvious 
solution to me.

Cruccone

Wikipedia Romania (Ronline) wrote:

>>How about having two DB tables, splitting the domain, like Chinese
>>Wikipedia does (Simplified and Traditional)?
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>I think that's unnecessary. The Moldovan language case is a unique one
>throughout the world in that Moldovan is a politically-renamed Romanian
>spoken in Moldovan. It would be just like the Austrian government declares
>today that the language spoken officially in Austria is called "Austrian".
>Therefore, we don't need a separate Wikipedia for Moldovan in Latin script
>- Romanian can already cater for that. In fact, we have users from Moldova
>reading and contributing to our content at ro.wiki.
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>For that reason, I think mo.wiki could be abolished entirely. If people
>really
>want a Cyrillic version, then it should be moved to mo-cyr, and mo should
>act
>as a portal, with one link to ro.wiki, one link to mo-cyr. But currently,
>the demand
>for Cyrillic is almost inexistent, and the quality of the articles there is
>very
>questionable.
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