Gerard,
Thank you for this message. It summarises my view of this project almost exactly.
Besides that, though, Alphax is a bit incorrect as far as a couple of things go:
1) It was never a "POV fork". The only significant difference is script. It's not as if pages are copied but their contents are replaced with POV, rather, their contents are usually simply converted to Cyrillic.
2) Moldovan is not a relic of the cold war. Nearly half of the people who speak Romanian or Moldovan in Moldova claim to speak "Moldovan" nowadays. If you mean the Cyrillic script is a relic of the Cold War, that's not exactly accurate, Latin was made official in 1989, and a period of transition and confusion took place until about 1993~1995, by which time nearly all citizens knew Latin, whether they liked it or not. This isn't nessecarily the case in Transnistria, where, as Gerard noted, "people use it".
Mark
On 18/03/06, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/18/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
Problem? Look at the recent changes on mo.wiki. You and your band of thugs have not been caring about that place since you left a week or two ago. You just noticed it's still there, oh, let's go complain.
The fact is, none of you actually visits there very often.
AFAICT, it was a POV fork of the Romanian Wikipedia (in Cyrillic), and you were the only person adding anything to it. The fact is, Moldovan is a relic of the Cold War, and the only people who still officially use it are the unrecognized republic of Transnistria.[1]
Hoi, Please read what you write; '''people''' who still use it.. Of all the lame arguments that I have heard this is a great one. May I remind you of what the Wikimedia Foundation stands for? Information to all people in their language... Therefore if you want an argument to keep this project you just provided it. Thanks, GerardM _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
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