You know what, I think everything one says is a POV.
Yes, and on Wikipedia, people try to work together to make it more
neutral. However, Pavel was not open to that.
Why should people from other Wikis vote for the future
of mo. ? The future
of mo. is mostly a concern of Moldovans and Romanians, since it (the
"Moldavian" language) is their native language.
Well, it's fine if Romanians vote -- IF they are active members of
mo.wiki. As you said, "why should people from other Wikis vote"?? If
you want to include people who aren't active on mo.wiki but are on
ro.wiki, this seems unfair and I think because of that you should
extend it to all Wikimedians.
Would you consider it OK if all the wikipedians
decided to open an Wiki in
American (yes, I do know there's no such language, but that's exactly the
point)? It just like the ellections in a country: why should citizens (in
this case speakers) of another country (in this case language) vote for the
fate of the country (in this case, Wiki)? It would be absurd.
Umm, that's what's been done in making such decisions so far. Somebody
proposed an American Wikipedia on Meta, and the people who voted
against it came from not only America but Australia, the Netherlands,
Germany... and since Wikipedia is an international project, I think
that's fair.
The vote to close the Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia, although started by a
Serbian, is not limited to speakers of the language or residents of
the countries or even members of those Wikipedias. It's open to all
Wikimedians, as it should be -- such a monumental decision should be
up to everybody.
Well, what's the point of keeping mo., if
it's just like ro. ?
Please re-read that paragraph again. It wasn't just like ro.wiki until
Pavel moved pages and replaced their contents...
Romanians are not foreigners on the Moldovan
Wikipedia!
Ro.wikipedians are. Romanians who are established mo.wikipedians, like
Ronline, are not "foreigners". But most -- Bogdan, AdiJapan, Bonaparte
-- are foreigners.
And it's going to be this way as long as people
are uninformed by such pages
as
mo.wikipedia.org! All the people should know that: There is no
Moldovan/Moldavian/Moldoveneasca Language!
About half of the native speakers of Limba Noastra in Rep. Moldova
disagree with you. They consider they speak "limba moldoveneasca". If
it was open-and-shut, there would be no controversy about language in
R.Moldova, people would just accept the so-called "fact" you just
said. But it's not 100% clear-cut, it's not obvious one way or the
other. Different people came to different conclusions, splitting the
country ideologically, and the government considers it "limba
moldoveneasca". We can't just say on Wikipedia, "there is no Moldovan
language", because it is _not neutral_ -- millions disagree.
I am saying this as a person who has lived all his
life in Moldova, who
speaks Romanian and Russian fluently and who knows much about the history of
his nation's language and traditions.
...do you know of Grigore Ureche? In his Chronicles of the Moldovan
Nation (letopisetul tarii moldovei), he has a chapter titled "about
our Moldovan language" (pentru limba noastra moldoveneasca). He wrote
his Chronicles in Cyrillic. He was not under Soviet time -- on the
contrary, he was an early Moldovan patriot who wrote a lot of valuable
material about his country. And this was before Russia annexed
Bessarabia.
And please, do not say such things as: "Most of
the people who voted were
Romanians (or sth else)", because you HAVE NOT looked in their passports and
you DO NOT really know who they are, you just know they speak Romanian
fluently.
No -- I've encountered these people before. People such as AdiJapan,
Bogdangiusca, Bonaparte, are all self-designated Romanians.
Mark