Hi, I'm a citizen of Republic of Moldova and I want to inform you that in our country everyone is writing Moldovan language with latin letters.
When we were under soviet union occupation, they tryed to russificate us and forced to have our language written with cyrilic.
In 1991, after getting the freedom to choose, we choose our language to be written with latin letters, as we did before russians conquest us (without ask the people) and divided from Romania (our mother land).
Thereby, as a free moldovan speaking man, I'm asking you to remove mo.wikipedia.org (witch is in cyrillic and is very offensive for us) and respect our choice as a independent nation or to make it with latin letters.
Thank you.
Hoi, The Moldovan Wikipedia is indeed in Cyrillic. This project has been locked after a big fight. The argument for this project is that in Transnistria there are people who still use Cyrillic to write their language. For your information, ISO has recently decided that Moldovan is no longer considered to be a separate language, it is considered to be Romanian. Thanks, GerardM
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Cetateanu Moldovanu <cetateanumd@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi, I'm a citizen of Republic of Moldova and I want to inform you that in our country everyone is writing Moldovan language with latin letters.
When we were under soviet union occupation, they tryed to russificate us and forced to have our language written with cyrilic.
In 1991, after getting the freedom to choose, we choose our language to be written with latin letters, as we did before russians conquest us (without ask the people) and divided from Romania (our mother land).
Thereby, as a free moldovan speaking man, I'm asking you to remove mo.wikipedia.org (witch is in cyrillic and is very offensive for us) and respect our choice as a independent nation or to make it with latin letters.
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The argument for this project is that in Transnistria there are people who still use Cyrillic to write their language.
Then please rename mo. to another thing, MO means MOLDOVAN, and in MOLDOVA we write OUR language with LATIN letters.
I don't really care what the transnistrian(russian) separatist criminals are doing there.
All I want is to NOT name the CYRILLIC garbage with OUR NAME !
there are people who still use Cyrillic to write their language. For your information, ISO has recently decided that Moldovan is no longer
considered
to be a separate language, it is considered to be Romanian.
That's good, the only thing I don't understand why mo.wikipedia.org is still here.
Make the transnistrian language in whatever scripting you want and keep it for transnistrian(russian) separatists. But please leave alone our language name, (I repeat) it's with latin letters.
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com
wrote:
Hoi, The Moldovan Wikipedia is indeed in Cyrillic. This project has been locked after a big fight. The argument for this project is that in Transnistria there are people who still use Cyrillic to write their language. For your information, ISO has recently decided that Moldovan is no longer considered to be a separate language, it is considered to be Romanian. Thanks, GerardM
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Cetateanu Moldovanu < cetateanumd@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi, I'm a citizen of Republic of Moldova and I want to inform you that in our country everyone is writing Moldovan language with latin letters.
When we were under soviet union occupation, they tryed to russificate us and forced to have our language written with cyrilic.
In 1991, after getting the freedom to choose, we choose our language to
be
written with latin letters, as we did before russians conquest us
(without
ask the people) and divided from Romania (our mother land).
Thereby, as a free moldovan speaking man, I'm asking you to remove mo.wikipedia.org (witch is in cyrillic and is very offensive for us) and respect our choice as a independent nation or to make it with latin letters.
Thank you. _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
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I know the Moldovan Wikipedia (and, to a larger extent, the whole language) is a matter of hot dispute. But to be honest, why does mo.wiki*.org even exist? Nearly every language wiki has its own ISO 639 identifier (I know simple doesn't, and there are several dialects that don't either). Given that the identifier *mo* was deprecated very recently, actual closure and emptying of the wiki might again be a topic of discussion on meta. Unfortunately, in any discussion about Eastern Europe, Eastern Europeans will invariably be too busy bickering at each other and the rest of the world (at least the cynics, and in Wikimedia there are plenty) will be groaning "not *another* dispute".
To the thread starter: I suggest you try Meta-Wiki to get the project closed/"uninstalled"; nothing will happen on the mailing list. If you do try that, though, please leave politics out of the discussion as much as possible, and be prepared to be called a troll by your opponents.
Will
Dear All,
I am a Graduate Student working on interfaces which help editors do their job better on Wikipedia. I have been working on a project which includes a Survey that is to be completed by experienced editors on Wikipedia.
My question: Is it fine to post on this list and Invite editors to participate in my study? Or is there a more formal method to go about it? Looking forward to your views and responses.
Avanidhar Chandrasekaran
GroupLens Research, university of Minnesota
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