[Wikipedia-l] Voting for the closing down of Moldovan Wikipedia

Mon Mar 6 07:46:52 UTC 2006

Since the languages are virtually the same it's probably better for
the mopedia to redir to the ropedia, so that Moldovan users can reach
info in a language understood by them, instead of being restricted to
the crappy Moldovan wp, perhaps without knowledge of the Romanian one.
>From the summary above I see no reason to keep the mowiki in a locked
state.

/Andreas

On 3/6/06, Bogdan Giusca <liste at dapyx.com> wrote:
> Since most content is (rather badly) transliterated from Romanian
> Wikipedia and the few original articles are short and badly written,
> I wouldn't say that the current content on mo.wiki has any value.
>
> The transliteration between "Romanian" Latin alphabet and "Moldovan"
> Cyrillic alphabet can be done pretty accurate by a script. I have made a
> php script for testing and I think it could be improved to near 100%
> accuracy, but I doubt it would be necessary.
>
> Latin alphabet has been official in the Republic of Moldova for
> the last 17 years and virtually all Moldovans can use it.
> Then, there's the unrecognized territory of Transnistria where
> Moldovan children are still taught in that alphabet, (although it's
> not what they really want, see the 2004 crisis)
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3631436.stm
>
> There has been some discussion on whether Romanian Wikipedia should
> have a Cyrillic alphabet section or that we should have a transliteration
> script integrated, but the truth is that we have yet to find a Moldovan
> willing to contribute using the Cyrillic alphabet.
>
> As such, I think that it would be better to be a redirect.
>
> Sunday, March 5, 2006, 11:38:13 PM, you wrote:
>
> A> Well...
>
> A> This is a summary such as we would be happy to see more often ! Thanks
> A> for it Bogdan !
>
> A> A question : do you think it should just be "frozen" as is ? (no more
> A> editable).
> A> Or do you think mo.wikipedia should redirect to ro.wikipedia ?
>
> A> ant
>
>
>
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