[Wikipedia-l] To Gerard re: Moldovan wiki

Sat Mar 18 18:33:03 UTC 2006

If that's your reason, we should probably close gotwiki as well. Perhaps gvwiki.

Mark

On 18/03/06, 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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