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

Mon Mar 6 15:06:28 UTC 2006

Current Moldovan Wikipedia content is not appropriate to the given domain,
and thus it shouldn't be kept
on mo.wiki. And I support the redirect to ro.wiki.

Furthermore, I believe that the results of the vote can be applied to the
Moldovan Wiktionary. It is quite absurd from my point of view, considering
that even in Moldova (and most probably in Transnistria) there is no such
thing as Moldovan explanatory dictionaries (like the *Oxford Dictionary of
English*) and especially no dictionaries translating Moldovan to other
languages (*Moldovan - English* or* Italian - Moldovan*, for example). Well,
there is one such work of art - *The Moldovan - Romanian *dictionary. Thus
mo.wiktionary should as well become a redirect to ro.wiktionary.

On 06/03/06, 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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