[Wikipedia-l] To Gerard re: Moldovan wiki

Sun Mar 19 12:05:09 UTC 2006

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> That's a reason to add more content, not delete existing content.
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> Chris

Yes, maybe. The dispute, however, the way I see it at least, is not over the
content per se, but rather the situation it's placed in, that is:

1) That the language is called "Moldovan" (I believe, however, calling it
Romanian and writing with Cyrillic would be even more controversial,
Romanian nationalists claim otherwise)

2) That Cyrillic is hosted on the main mo.wiki subdomain, and no Latin
content is hosted on this subdomain (Latin is the official, majority
script). Note that Latin is, however, listed first in the interface.

The problem has also, I believe, been augmented by a series of Mark's
actions, although I believe they were in good faith (i.e. the interface was
changed just so that it uses different terms to the Romanian Wikipedia, and
many of the words don't make sense even to Moldovans).

Which is why I think a good compromise would be the subdomain solution.
However, it seems that it was agreed that the existing mo.wiki would be
locked down.

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