Au contraire mon ami. The potential audience you cite - Transnistrians
- does not have the best internet infrastructure. Even Moldova proper
is not that well connected - see how few votes came from actual
Moldovans? I can almost guarantee that no Transnistrians voted. I
think that in this case your argument about African wikis must be
extended... After all Moldova has often been called the Africa of
Europe due to poor infrastructure and quality of life, the worst in
Europe, and Transnistria isn't exactly better.
Mark
On 10/11/2007, Johannes Rohr <jorohr(a)gmail.com> wrote:
GerardM <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
writes:
Hoi,
Were there any Transnistrians that voted ?
Without Checkuser access I have no way of determining, where the votes
came from. There may have been votes from native speakers in
Transnistria (which would mean that they also reject this wikipedia
edition) or they may have been none, which would indicate that they
are indifferent towards it. Either case would indicate that this Wiki
is not met by any consumer demand.
[...]
When you do not insist on native speakers, you
can not use it as an
argument for Moldovan either.
I do not have a definitive opinion on that matter, and this is really
none of my business. I don't think, generalising on what seems to me a
pretty unique situation makes an awful lot of sense. Here, this issue
is not that there are not enough potential native
contributors/readers. The potential audience exists, but it appears to
/reject/ this wiki decisively. You simply cannot equate that to the
Kanuri, Venda, Inuktitut or Herero Wiki, languages, which have very
small online communities if at all.
[...]
Ciao,
Johannes
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