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(a)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_…
http://sr.wikipedia.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_Wikipedia
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http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lorenzarius
Tel: +852 95825791
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