Yes, but remember that Cyrillic is a script in
decline. The 150,000 or so
Moldovans in Transnistria are made to use Cyrillic, and they would prefer to
use Latin, as can be seen by the crisis provoked by the decision to remove
state funding from Latin-script schools. OK, none of these are reasons
against the existence of a Moldovan Wikipedia in Cyrillic per se, but I
think your point of this being able to be used for any tangible positive
purpose is overstated. This can be seen by the fact that there are no
contributors who are interested in adding information to the project at the
moment (i.e. native speakers). Even *this* wouldn't be a problem.
As I've noted many times before, Latin alphabet is still taught in
private schools in Transnistria. Nobody is being forced to use
Cyrillic.
The biggest problem that people don't agree with,
however, is that the
Moldovan Wikipedia is biscriptal, and in practice is Cyrillic-only
(article-wise), when Cyrillic is neither the majority script, nor an
official script, while also ideologically representing a symbol of past
repression (we can't always look at things in a political vacuum).
No -- what it seems to me is that most people either don't like the
fact that Cyrillic is used *at all*, or that the name "Moldovan" is
used. Nobody seems to have any of those nuanced feelings you detail.
Mark