[Wikipedia-l] Moldovan wikipedia?

Sat Mar 18 12:27:27 UTC 2006

Hoi,
The arguments that you use to deny people who use the cyrillic script
is political. By continuing this line of arguments you make your POV
case worse. What does it matter that Transnistria can be seen as a
relic of the cold war, what does Transnistria matter that its
government glorifies USSR and communism. Wikipedia is for people.

The continued insistance of this blatantly political POV makes me
consider that you the people in Transnistria are discrimated against.
They are denied their place under the sun. A place under the sun that
does not cost us much .. hard disks are cheap.

With this continued agressive insistence of the deletion of this
Wikipedia, I am more and more coming to the conclusion that it is
wrong for the Wikimedia Foundation to close down this project. The
reason: the arguments used are plain discrimation. It is
discrimination because of ideological and political reasons.

Thanks,
   GerardM

On 3/18/06, Wikipedia Romania (Ronline) <rowikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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
>
>
> Even though this in itself is not a particularly good reason against closing
> down the Moldovan Wikipedia, the Cyrillic script for Moldovan is very much a
> relic of the Cold War. This can be seen by the fact that Latin was
> introduced in Moldova right after the Cold War. Transnistria itself can be
> seen as relic of the Cold War - it's government still glorifies the symbols
> of the USSR and Communism.
>
> But, anyway, it's been agreed (see Anthere's message) that the Moldovan
> Wikipedia should be frozen for any editing.
>
> Ronline
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