On 3/5/07, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Verbosity is a prerequisite for my arguments to
be understood. Otherwise
these are simply skipped.
.... Really ? ...
At times, this is the feeling that I have. At any rate, verbosity is
necessary to make my arguments clear.
2. According to the recently adopted Language
proposal
policy<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WM:LPP>- that I suppose can be
applied to existing wikipedias to determine their
"validity" - there are three "essential" requisites that can be
verified: a
valid ISO-639 code, language singularity and a
viable community and
audience.
Hoi,
You are plain wrong. You are also wrong in applying the policy in this
way. The policy determines how new languages are to be accepted. The
Moldovan Wikipedia already exists and it does have a valid ISO 639 code.
Thanks,
GerardM
Hello,
I have no intent to renew this
debate. This is simply to say that my view over
the entire issue has not radically changed. For the following (same)
reasons:
From what I know, the tiny wikipedias (like the Moldovan one) were created à
partir de a "list" with no formal voting and without following any specific
guidelines or policy. On this basis, I believe that the newly adopted policy
could be used for determining the "correctness" of wikipedias that were
created in "obscure" ways. In any case, it is not up to me to decide such a
usage.
As to the valid ISO 639 code.. It is valid indeed in the eyes of the ISO,
but also according to the official POV of the Party of Communists in RM (I
suspect), of the Transnistrian authorities and might have been in the eyes
of the Soviet Authorities. [On a side note: I do not understand how you
expect my arguments to be completely apolitical over an issue that is pure
politics: considering Moldovan as a linguistic entity.]
However, scholarly research - Western included - disputes this. A lot
of linguists
- if not most - do (with the notable exception of Vasile Stati; notable,
because he is the one). The regulating body of the "Moldovan language" -
with regard to the Constitution - disputes this. Less important in the eyes
of the WMF, natives dispute this (though still waiting for someone from
Transnistria here). Please follow the links in my previous messages if
you are not persuaded by this paragraph.
And, probably most important for the Board, the mo.wiki domain does not
host content in a linguistic entity different from the Romanian one. It
simply hosts transliterated Romanian content. I honestly believe that it
is wrong for the Foundation to blindly follow the ISO specifications over
this issue. It is also wrong for the Board to adopt - from the NPOV
perspective, which should be respected even if certain flexibility is
endorsed - a political POV over a linguistic/historical fact: at a given
period, in a given region, Romanian was written with a different script.
Regards,
Liviu