An'n 03.10.2010 17:47, hett Roan Kattouw schreven:
2010/10/3 Roan Kattouw<roan.kattouw(a)gmail.com>om>:
I don't understand why this would be
insulting, but whatever...
Following the
causes.com link clarifies this: it's a
Russian influence thing.
If you are interested in the facts:
There are 19.7 million speakers of Romanian in Romania. There are 2.6
million speakers of Romanian in Moldova (they call their language either
Romanian or Moldovan, but it's the same language as in Romania). Both
Romania and Moldova write the language with Romanian script. Then there
are 177,000 speakers of Romanian living in Transnistria. Transnistria is
officially part of Moldova, but it is a de facto independant state.
Transnistria's population is about one third Romanian, one third Russian
and one third Ukrainian. When Moldova became independant in 1991 the
Russian group in Transnistria feared that their privileged status would
change and that Romanian would become the most privileged language in
the new state. A civil war broke out and supported by Russian troops
Transnistria became a de facto independant state. This state holds
Russophile policies and the Romanian language (called Moldovan) is
written in Cyrillic. The Cyrillic script was introduced by the Soviets
as a measure of cultural Sovietization.
So for the Romanians and Moldovans the Cyrillic script is a symbol of
Soviet cultural imperialism and more importly a dividing line that
excludes 177,000 speakers of their language from participation in
Romanian-language cultural affairs (at least in its written forms).
mo.wp is Cyrillic but uses the code 'mo' that stands for Moldovan and
would thus in theory cover all 2.78 million speakers in both Moldova and
Transnistria. For Moldovans mo.wp feels like Wikimedia tries to promote
Cyrillic in Moldova. The code 'mo' by the way is deprecated because ISO
recognized it as being identical with Romanian.
As automatic script conversion is possible, there's really no reason to
keep mo.wp at all. You can just remove it completely. That requires just
one small edit to the subdomain mapping. Should be much easier than a
rename to 'mo-cyrl' which still uses the deprecated code.
Marcus Buck
User:Slomox