You don't seem to get it. There is Cyrillic content there that does not exist at rowiki. Why does it matter what it's called? Romanian with cyrillic letters, Moldovan, etc...
"As I understood it" demonstrates that you haven't actually investigated at all, which makes me wonder why you speak about the issue at all.
Mark
On 06/03/06, Andreas Vilén andreas.vilen@gmail.com wrote:
Nope I didn't. But I don't see what good a separate language edition is if the difference is just the characters. In that case, it would be better to create a "romanian with cyrillic letters" pedia. As I've understood it, mowiki contains virtually nothing worth saving that isn't already at rowiki. Most moldavian people probably earn more knowledge from rowiki than mowiki anyway.
/Andreas
On 3/7/06, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
Andreas, did you visit the Moldovan Wikipedia? The frontpage actually says if you want to read content in Latin alphabet, go to the Romanian WP.
M
On 06/03/06, Andreas Vilén andreas.vilen@gmail.com wrote:
Since the languages are virtually the same it's probably better for the mopedia to redir to the ropedia, so that Moldovan users can reach info in a language understood by them, instead of being restricted to the crappy Moldovan wp, perhaps without knowledge of the Romanian one.
From the summary above I see no reason to keep the mowiki in a locked
state.
/Andreas
On 3/6/06, Bogdan Giusca liste@dapyx.com wrote:
Since most content is (rather badly) transliterated from Romanian Wikipedia and the few original articles are short and badly written, I wouldn't say that the current content on mo.wiki has any value.
The transliteration between "Romanian" Latin alphabet and "Moldovan" Cyrillic alphabet can be done pretty accurate by a script. I have made a php script for testing and I think it could be improved to near 100% accuracy, but I doubt it would be necessary.
Latin alphabet has been official in the Republic of Moldova for the last 17 years and virtually all Moldovans can use it. Then, there's the unrecognized territory of Transnistria where Moldovan children are still taught in that alphabet, (although it's not what they really want, see the 2004 crisis)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3631436.stm
There has been some discussion on whether Romanian Wikipedia should have a Cyrillic alphabet section or that we should have a transliteration script integrated, but the truth is that we have yet to find a Moldovan willing to contribute using the Cyrillic alphabet.
As such, I think that it would be better to be a redirect.
Sunday, March 5, 2006, 11:38:13 PM, you wrote:
A> Well...
A> This is a summary such as we would be happy to see more often ! Thanks A> for it Bogdan !
A> A question : do you think it should just be "frozen" as is ? (no more A> editable). A> Or do you think mo.wikipedia should redirect to ro.wikipedia ?
A> ant
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