Hi everyone,
the Moldovan Wikipedia at http://mo.wikipedia.org has now been locked for almost a year (last modification of the main page is dated 16 November 2006). When you hit alt+shift+e, you are presented a message saying, this Wikipedia is locked "for now". The main page has no explanation whatsoever why this wiki is locked, it doesn't even say /that/ it is.
In 2006, community members proposed the closure of this wiki for a number of reasons, the discussion is available at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Mol...
To sum up the reasons presented by the proposers:
- Moldovan is identical with Romanian, it is just a different name for the same language; - The Moldovan Wikipedia is in the Cyrillic script, which is not used in Moldova, except for the breakaway republic of Transnistria, where it is used in schools, but only because it is forcibly imposed by the Russian-speaking government. (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3631436.stm) - The Moldovan Wikipedia contains almost no original content, most articles are transliterations from the Romanian edition, - While it was active, it had virtually no native contributors, the main author wrote in dictionary-aided broken Romanian.
Now, what we have since the database was locked a year ago is an uneditable project with several thousand pages. This is quite obviously not a good thing, not least because it makes interwiki conflicts unfixable.
I feel that this situation is not sustainable and should be resolved in one way or another.
Personally I am in favour of starting a formal proposal for the deletion of this wiki, similar to the one regarding the Siberian Wikipedia (see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deletion_of_Siberian_Wikipedia ).
If there are any other opionions or suggestions, I am looking forward to reading them.
Thanks,
Johannes