On 2/1/07, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
David Monniaux schreef:
OTRS has received a request for this wiki to be taken down, stating that Moldovian is just Romanian written in cyrillic, in a way imposed by the Communists. (I'm not saying this is true, I have no opinion on the issue, I'm just reporting.)
Hoi, This argument is totally irrelevant. There is no place for politics in answering the question if a language is used and if so in which way.
There is one relevant point in this argument. Writing Moldovan with Cyrillic was and is imposed. By politics, but imposed. And as such, there are no (apart for minoritary and exceptional cases) persons freely willing to write Romanian in Cyrillic script.
Thus, I do not really understand what does Wikipedia - and the language committee, in particular - hope for the future of the Moldovan Wikipedia when there are _no_ native _writers_ willing to contribute. This "no" is evident, taking into account the two recent votes (on mo.wiki and on meta), where no Moldovan supported the existance of the Moldovan Wikipedia. This Wikipedia cannot advance much if it is to be driven by - in most of the cases - approximate transliterations made by Mark Williamson of Romanian Wikipedia articles.
What is relevant is that there are people still writing in Cyrillic.
This has been expressed before. On previous occasions we have expressed quite strongly that political arguments have no place in deciding if a language in one of its manifestations is used or not. This is the point of view of the language committee.
Thanks, GerardM for the language committee
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