Liviu Andronic schreef:
Before answering this, I hope that the Language Committee agrees on the following two points.
First of all, the WMF does *not* want to have any content in the Moldovan dialect (Romanian as *spoken* in the historic region of Moldavia, which would currently comprise Eastern part of Romania and Moldova with Transnistria included). This would be completely stupid and trolls would be the only serious contributors.
Hoi, The language committee does not agree on the first. As to the second point, in ISO-639-6 there will be the notion of linguistic entities. It makes perfect sense to change the terminology because of its scope. The beauty is that it negates even the notion of something being a language or a dialect.
Given that we are not inclined to listen to political arguments and given that this mess was very much created in a period when Moldova was at war with itself. Given that the numerically greater party uses its position trying to determine the outcome I do not think that this is a convincing ploy.
The notion that "It is not reasonable to dedicate an entire Wikipedia section to this content, when the Romanian Wikipedia exists." is your POV. There is a mo.wikipedia.org. When the people who contribute to the Romanian language Wikipedia find it in themselves to leave the mo,wikipedia be, when it is allowed to clean its content, there may be a moment when a merge may happen. This means that articles in Cyrillic may be translated in Latin and vice versa. Pre conceived ideas that the Cyrillic content is not worth the hassle are tantamount to preventing a merge which would be the optimal solution.
As there will be a period of time needed to do all this, it is a perfect opportunity to improve the Cyrillic to Latin conversion and the Latin to Cyrillic conversion.
When the contributors of the Romanian language Wikipedia do not accept this, they have to accept the existence of a mo.wikipedia. They cannot have their cake and eat it.
Thanks, GerardM