I don't think the issue here is the legitimacy of the Moldovan
Wikipedia, but rather the integrity of the vote.
Secretlondon's point was that she thought it was very possible that
the Moldovan Wikipedia had been "invaded" by Romanian Wikipedians.
And, that is largely true.
9 people voted on Ronline's proposal and subsequent additions by others.
In my opinion, only 3 out of those 9 can be considered legitimate
members of the Moldovan Wikipedia community -- myself, Ronline, and
Dmitriid. The reason for this is that these three people have made
extensive contributions, including writing new content, fixing old
content, etc.
The rest, have either 1) edited only on talkpages or 2) edited on
talkpages only except for two or three edits to the main namespace,
where they just fixed a number or made a link, because we were
considering requiring a certain number of edits for being able to
vote.
That 9 is only including the people who met the pre-established
criteria for voting. There were actually 12 people who voted.
Out of those 12 people, only 3 of them had made any significant
contributions to the Moldovan Wikipedia. The rest were bullies from
the Romanian Wikipedia.
HOWEVER, let me emphasise again that I don't think final result of the
vote would've been different, had only these 3 people been allowed to
vote. Perhaps the margin by which certain proposals passed would've
been different, but I don't believe the final result would've been.
Having said that, there has since been the addition of a new, very
active user on the Moldovan Wikipedia, Gabix. I think that if only him
and these 3 other people were allowed to vote, the results might be
tipped the other direction -- if I thought there was a chance, I'd
vote against the parenthetical "chirilica" for reasons upon which I've
already expounded.
Cheers
Mark
On 23/08/05, Wikipedia Romania (Ronline) <rowikipedia(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi.
I think we shouldn't turn this into a debate about the
legitimacy of the Moldovan Wikipedia and the
perceptions of Romanian contributors on the Wikimedia
network.
What is important is that a proposal was approved,
fairly, by the majority of Moldovan Wikipedia users
which explicitly states, among other things, that the
interwiki descriptor should be changed. This change is
basically from "Moldovan" to "Moldovan (Cyrillic)".
Hence, I see no reason how that ties into Moldovan not
being a language or something like that. The reason
behind the change was to affirm the fact that the
Moldovan Wikipedia only really contains content in
Cyrillic script, and that Cyrillic script is neither
the only, nor the majority script in use.
Unfortunately, this mailing list doesn't support
Unicode it seems, so the characters couldn't be
displayed.
See
http://mo.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ronline/Propunere
to see how the change should be. I will file a report
at bugzilla about this - it seems this is the most
efficient way to change interwiki descriptors.
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