On 4/14/05, Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I guess that this is OK.
But I think that the majority of users of mo.wikipedia will, no matter
what, always be primarily users of Cyrillic, and I think that it
should be dominant there until such time as there are more Moldovan
users there who use Latin, if that is ever the case.
...
And as I noted earlier, conversion between Latin Moldovan and Cyrillic
Moldovan by computer is not possible or at least not practical (it
would require neural networking or AI or something)
If the situation is that Moldovans which call their language Romanian
use Latin and Moldovans which call their language Molodvan use
Cyrillic -- then I don't see any problem :) mo: should be Cyrillic and
Moldavian, ro: should be Latin and Romanian.
What are the differences between Latin and Cyrillic Moldovan? I am not
sure that it is not possible to make some kind of not so complicated
program for transliteration.
By the way, why exactly is it that there are separate
Wikipedias for
Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian? If everybody worked together, you
could have a much larger Wikipedia by now - Serbian has over 10k, but
Croatian is quite large too and Bosnian has over 1000 - imagine if you
worked together to make one Wikipedia.
Hmmm... Imagine that: When Hungarian say on Hungarian Wikipedia that
Romanian occupied Transilvania and Romaians say on Romanian Wikipedia
that Romanians liberated Transilvania -- there are no a lot of people
who would care about it.
Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks have a lot of such (explicite or potential)
conflicts. A lot of such conflits exist on English Wikipedia. I think
that we would have a lot of troubles if there is one Wikipedia, such
Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia was.
When I finish some work for Serbian Wikipedia, I'll implement it on
Croatian (they agree with that) and Bosnian (I'll ask when I finish
work for sr:). Also, it is possible to make some kind of inteligent
program for "translating" articles in the way
Serbian<->Croatian<->Bosnian. And I'll do that in the future.