[Wikipedia-l] To Gerard re: Moldovan wiki

Sat Mar 18 15:58:21 UTC 2006

Hoi,
You presume that you know what all people in Transnistria want, you
presume again with political arguments that people cannot have their
change. What you know of Transnistria is more than I do. History has
learned elsewhere that after a change there are always people who
yearned for the good old days...

As to Mark, you cannot deny that he puts efford in what he thinks
important. When you compare this with people who vote on Meta for a
new project just because they think something a good idea,  it is a
breath of fresh air. When you think that you know his politics because
of the quote that he uses, I am sure you do not understand Mark.

When some Russians are in favour, their reasons are certainly as
honourable as yours. The difference is that you want to achieve the
destruction of a wiki while your opponents want to preserve and
continue a wiki.

I did not really care either way but my sympathy is not with politics
and for many reasons I am not in favour of the deletion of wikis. The
agrassive way in which you seek to delete this project tipped my
sympathy. I do not vote, could not vote but I do voice my disaproval.

Thanks,
    GerardM

On 3/18/06, Bogdan Giusca <liste at dapyx.com> wrote:
> Gerard, you forgot an important thing of this affair:
> NO MOLDOVANS requested or wanted this Wikipedia.
>
> We have *no* Transnistrian Moldovan contributors who want to write a
> wikipedia in Cyrillic alphabet.
>
> Its only supporters are Node_ue (the kid in Arizona who barely speaks the
> language) and a few Russians who support it for ideological/political
> reasons and who can't contribute anyway, as they don't know the
> language.
>
> There are no newspapers, no journals, no magazines, no books currently
> published in Romanian Cyrillic in Transnistria. The children use
> decades old schoolbooks from the time of the Soviet Union.
>
> Virtually everyone there would like to switch the education system to
> the Latin alphabet, but dissent is not something easy to do in a
> totalitarian regime: there are some Romanian/Moldovan Transnistrians
> in prison since 1991 for political dissent.
>
> So, I'd say to close it now, not because of political reasons, but for
> the simple fact there are not enough people to contribute to it.
>
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