Yes, there have in fact been Moldovan users who have either been supportive of this project or neutral. At the moment, however, there are no native users of Moldovan Cyrillic that are contributing, or intend to contribute, to this project.
It doesn't matter WHY a script is present, only that it IS.
I don't think it does this case any good to look at it from a political vacuum. I think that's a problem with Wikipedian approaches in general - things are deconstructed, recontextualised and looked at in what is a political-cultural vacuum. The point is that although NPOV is important, the connotations that a certain script has and its reason for coming about are important in considering its legitimacy. This is of course regarding conversion. There would be nothing wrong is setting up a subdomain (mo-cyr) for this Wikipedia. It would set a precedent, and it would be a unique case, but then again the case of Moldovan is quite unique anyway.
On 3/13/06, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
Dpotop ignored the users I listed. It doesn't matter WHY a script is present, only that it IS.
Mark
On 13/03/06, Jacky PB dpotop1@yahoo.com wrote:
Hello again, and thanks for your interest in the problem.
Here is my views on a possible transliteration engine on ro.wiki.
Personaly, I have nothing against having it. However, as the vote on mo.wiki shows, only few share my position. And the two reasons are quite straightforward:
- Historically speaking, the cyrillic script is a
remnant of Soviet colonial policies, only maintained (by force) in Transnistria. 2. No request for moldovan in cyrillic came from a Moldovan speaker.
Given than, I believe that the best solution is Mark installing the script in his private space, or maybe in the test wikipedia area, pending the arrival on wikipedia of actual Moldovan users interested in the issue.
What do you believe? Dpotop
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