Moldovan projects - Langcom

15 Apr 2017

User:George Ho poked us [1] in relation to the proposals for closing
projects [2]. I went there to deal with the simplest cases, but,
again, Moldovan...

There are a couple of obvious reasons why this issue hasn't been
solved for a long time. Most importantly, there are *some* people who
use and want to use that orthography, so the logic says that it's not
on us to interfere with it, but to wait for the native speakers
(actually, "native writers") to appear.

We've been waiting for ~12 years and I think we could wait for as long
as it's necessary.

But I was reading about the issue again. You know, a kind of
compulsive reading: I knew I won't get any new information, as I'd
read all of the materials and Wikipedia articles a number of times,
but I was reading anyway.

However, it was productive at last and I've changed my mind.

The value of learning that particular orthography by Moldovan pupils
in Transnitria is around zero. All of them are likely native in
Russian and, outside of the specific usage, interesting to the
specialists (likely just historians), the whole corpus written in
Moldovan Cyrillic is likely the subset of what's written in Russian.

In other words, as soon as a Transitrian Moldovan learns
Romanian/Moldovan Latin orthography, as better for her or him. And we
should support it.

So, I tend to suggest to the Board backing up and deletion of the
projects in Moldovan. However, I want to hear what you think about it
before the final proposal. I would also suggest that we do not make
the future requests eligible as long as we do not see a substantial
number of native contributors. (Note that nobody appeared since 2005
or so.)

[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Proposals_for_closing_projects#Older_o…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects