Anthere schreef:
Hello
Can someone make for the board a *short* and efficient summary of the whole mo.wikipedia.org situation ? Please, someone near-neutral, in an npov manner ?
Thanks
Ant
Hoi, As I can not edit on the Moldovan, the Romanian or any of the Balkan Wikipedias but as I do have an interest in languages and as I have spend a considerable amount of time trying to understand what the issues are. I am happy to oblige.
As a language Moldovan is considered by linguists to be the same as Romanian. The Romanian language is written in the Latin script. In the days of the USSR, Moldova used to be a USSR republic and has since become an independent nation. However, a small part, Transnistria, broke away from Moldova and declared itself independent in 1990. There has been a war between Moldova and Transnistria until a cease fire was reached in 1992. Forces of the 18th Russian army fought on the side of Transnistria.
Transnistria uses the Cyrillic script, Moldova the Latin script and as part of the conflict, they both declared the use of script used by the others illegal. The Wikipedia articles says: "The problem of the official language in the MSSR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSSR had become a Gordian knot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_knot, being exaggerated and, perhaps, intentionally politicized. Some described the language laws as "discriminatory" and criticized their rapid implementation. Others, on the contrary, complained the laws were not followed."
The problem for wikipedia is that we suffer the brunt of extremists of both sides. People who will do whatever to keep their project alive and people who will do whatever to kill off the http://mo.wikipedia.org The mo.wikipedia is traumatised by a lack of admins fighting spam and vandalism and of vilification of people who want to create a project that is in Cyrillic.
The mo.wikipedia can not at present function normally; their main page stigmatises the effort and has people go to the http://ro.wikipedia.org. There are people of other Wikipedia projects that vandalise each other projects in the name of their "good" cause. Given that Wikipedia stands for a Neutral Point Of View these people are all horribly wrong and given these actions they cannot be trusted to bring a NPOV in their own language either.
From a language point of view, it would be best to come to one project, a project where the Moldovan orthography both in the Latin and the Cyrillic script is accepted. It is extremely likely that both a Moldovan orthography and a Cyrillic script for this language will be supported by the ISO in the future. Imho it will need a roadmap with clear deliverables to both parties to come to such a situation.
Thanks, GerardM
Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldovan_language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldova http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Transnistria