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

Tue Dec 6 20:17:45 UTC 2005

If the quality of the articles there is questionable, then so is the
quality of ro.wiki articles because 99% of ours are copied from you.

Mark

On 05/12/05, Wikipedia Romania (Ronline) <rowikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > How about having two DB tables, splitting the domain, like Chinese
> > Wikipedia does (Simplified and Traditional)?
> > _______________________________________________
>
>
> 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.
>
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