Kaixo!
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 02:52:54AM +0300, Bogdan Stancescu wrote:
Aromanian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aromanian) is a Romanian language (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_language) dialect.
A new Wikipedia is requested for this language on the Romanian Wikipedia (http://ro.wikipedia.org) by Aromanians who don't know where else to turn.
Can't the "moldavian" wikipedia ( http://mo.wikipedia.org/ ) be used temporarly? (of course the domain name should be changed, but as it is currently unused it may be a good idea to use it temporarly instead of the romanian one, particularly in the case where some article names may overlap, and for all the technical (Wikipedia:) namespace, by using temporarly an unused (and probably one that will never be used anyway) wikipedia the only constraint will be to keep a warning text on the main page; all the other pages could freely be modified and adapted at will without fear of any conflict.
And then, switching to a "real" Aromanian wikipedia would involve only a change in the DNS, no need to move/copy articles around.
On the other hand, UTF-8 should be more than ok for this language as far as technical concerns go.
UTF-8 should be the default for any new wikipedia; not using UTF-8 would be a mistake, which will lead to problems (like it is the case in the English wikipedia)