[Wikipedia-l] Moldovan wikipedia?

Sat Mar 18 10:38:57 UTC 2006

Gerard,

Thank you for this message. It summarises my view of this project
almost exactly.

Besides that, though, Alphax is a bit incorrect as far as a couple of things go:

1) It was never a "POV fork". The only significant difference is
script. It's not as if pages are copied but their contents are
replaced with POV, rather, their contents are usually simply converted
to Cyrillic.

2) Moldovan is not a relic of the cold war. Nearly half of the people
who speak Romanian or Moldovan in Moldova claim to speak "Moldovan"
nowadays. If you mean the Cyrillic script is a relic of the Cold War,
that's not exactly accurate, Latin was made official in 1989, and a
period of transition and confusion took place until about 1993~1995,
by which time nearly all citizens knew Latin, whether they liked it or
not. This isn't nessecarily the case in Transnistria, where, as Gerard
noted, "people use it".

Mark

On 18/03/06, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/18/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Mark Williamson wrote:
> > > Problem? Look at the recent changes on mo.wiki. You and your band of
> > > thugs have not been caring about that place since you left a week or
> > > two ago. You just noticed it's still there, oh, let's go complain.
> > >
> > > The fact is, none of you actually visits there very often.
> > >
> >
> > AFAICT, it was a POV fork of the Romanian Wikipedia (in Cyrillic), and
> > you were the only person adding anything to it. The fact is, Moldovan is
> > a relic of the Cold War, and the only people who still officially use it
> > are the unrecognized republic of Transnistria.[1]
> >
>
> Hoi,
> Please read what you write; '''people''' who still use it..  Of all
> the lame arguments that I have heard this is a great one. May I remind
> you of what the Wikimedia Foundation stands for? Information to all
> people in their language... Therefore if you want an argument to keep
> this project you just provided it.
> Thanks,
>    GerardM
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