Another difference is Greater Romania POV.
Articles on ro.wp tend to be written slightly slanted towards a Romanian view.
Romanian Wikipedians may deny this, but one has only to compare the Romanian and English articles on [[Moldova]], [[Transnistria]], [[Igor Smirnov]], [[URSS]]/[[USSR]], etc. to know.
While some Moldovans share this opinion, the opinion base in Moldova is vastly different. While it would be best to work together, in the current situation ro.wp is dominated by a huge majority of Romanians, so any moderate or nationalist Moldovan (as opposed to unionist), or someone favouring closer ties to Russia, would likely get little say in that Wikipedia.
This situation might be considered similar to the reason why the current Bosnian, Serbian, and Croatian Wikipedias are incompatible for a merger -- there are many POV articles on each Wikipedia due to systemic biases that people do not realise are present.
If Romanian Wikipedians tried to make their articles conform to the same POV standard as the English Wikipedia does, this would not be an issue.
Mark
On 29/06/06, Lorenzarius lorenzarius@gmail.com wrote:
I don't know any "Moldovan", but if the difference between "Moldovan" and Romanian is merely a difference in the alphabet used, we don't even need an external script for the conversions: because MediaWiki already supports such conversions (this function is introduced in version 1.4). This function is currently being used on the Chinese (to convert between traditional/simplified Chinese) and Serbian (to convert between Cyrillic/Latin alphabet) Wikipedia. In fact the situation on zh: is much more complicated than merely a difference in alphabet, and I can assure you that the initial discussion on zh: (e.g. whether to split or not; whether a technical solution is adequate enough) is no less painful than the current one I see here. But as a native Chinese speaker, I think our use of a technical solution to overcome a not-so-technical problem works out pretty well so far and that we did indeed make a correct decision to not to split.
For more info: http://zh.wikipedia.org/ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Transwiki:Wikimania05/Paper-ZZ1 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Automatic_conversion_between_simplified_and_t... http://sr.wikipedia.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_Wikipedia -- Larry Lo http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lorenzarius Tel: +852 95825791 _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l