Mark Williamson wrote:
On 18/03/06, Bogdan Giusca liste@dapyx.com wrote:
Gerard, you forgot an important thing of this affair: NO MOLDOVANS requested or wanted this Wikipedia.
We have *no* Transnistrian Moldovan contributors who want to write a wikipedia in Cyrillic alphabet.
Its only supporters are Node_ue (the kid in Arizona who barely speaks the language) and a few Russians who support it for ideological/political reasons and who can't contribute anyway, as they don't know the language.
There are no newspapers, no journals, no magazines, no books currently published in Romanian Cyrillic in Transnistria. The children use decades old schoolbooks from the time of the Soviet Union.
Virtually everyone there would like to switch the education system to the Latin alphabet, but dissent is not something easy to do in a totalitarian regime: there are some Romanian/Moldovan Transnistrians in prison since 1991 for political dissent.
So, I'd say to close it now, not because of political reasons, but for the simple fact there are not enough people to contribute to it.
If that's your reason, we should probably close gotwiki as well. Perhaps gvwiki.
Has anyone apart from yourself and a few (insert nation here) nationalists contributed to these? Are they real langauges? Would any real people find them useful?