[Wikipedia-l] Moldovan wikipedia?

Sat Mar 18 18:30:57 UTC 2006

Also, perhaps it should be noted that on the voting page, Dpotop wrote
at the very top that the Foundation has limited resources. A good way
to encourage people to vote his way...

Mark

On 18/03/06, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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