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.
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.
Ronline
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