On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:18:26 +0100, GerardM wrote:
Hoi, You are wrong, the Romanian Wikipedia is in the Latin script.. the Moldovan is not, consequently your conclusion does not follow from your argument. Thanks,
While it is theoretically possible that there are individual speakers of Romanian/Moldovan in Transnistria who, due to the pro-Russian policy of the Transnistrian authorities read only Cyrillic Romanian, the likelihood is extremely small. As I understand, the contemporary use of Cyrillic for Moldovan/Romanian is a product of continued coercion in Transnistria.
In my view, the main argument against the Moldovan Wikipedia is that it never had a native community. There is simply no demand from the side of Moldovans from either side of the Dniester river for such a wiki.
Apart from that, I feel that the use of the mo language code is a misuse, as the standard alphabeth in Moldova is Latin, not Cyrillic.
Apart from that, I am well aware, that Romanian has a history of being written in Cyrillic. I would even dare say, that the Latin script is a relatively new invention, as the Romanian ortodox church has historically used the cyrillic alphabeth well into the 19th centure, IIRC.
However, I don't think that this warrants a separate Wikipedia edition, else we could also have a separate German editon in Fraktur script...
Thanks,
Johannes