[Foundation-l] mo.wikipedia.org

Mark Williamson node.ue at gmail.com
Sat Nov 22 22:15:32 UTC 2008


How would that not be a solution? I mean, I personally favor automatic
transliteration of ro.wp, but there are lots of issues with that.

Mark

2008/11/22 Marcus Buck <me at marcusbuck.org>:
> effe iets anders schrieb:
>> Now you really dont sound like a nationalist, nor do you give the impression
>> of being non-neutral, right? I think you clearly show why no hasty decisions
>> should be made :)
>>
> "Hasty decisions"? mo.wikipedia is freezed since March 2006! A decision
> should be made. Either Cyrillic Moldovan is legitimate - then it should
> be reopened - or it is not legitimate - then it should be closed
> altogether. Or it is legitimate, but not as a project of its own, but as
> an automatic transcription of the Latin Romanian content - then this
> should be implemented.
>
> There are 401 articles in the freezed Wikipedia. Some empty, some short,
> some messed up, some quite comprehensive. Most of them translations
> (well, actually transliterations, not translations) of Romanian
> articles. Romanian articles of 2006, of course. Whatever you think about
> the legitimacy of Cyrillic Moldovan, this project in its current state
> is quite useless as a source of information. To keep it as it is and to
> do nothing, is the worst decision that can be made.
>
> The facts are established, there are no big open issues. We just have to
> establish decisions. No hasty decisions, but nonetheless prompt decisions.
>
> This is the foundation mailing list. Foundation executives should read
> it and act upon issues raised on this list. If they don't, this list is
> completely useless. Renaming the project to mo-cyrillic would be a
> logical step, but it's not a solution. Please act now. Go.
>
> Marcus Buck
>
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