[Foundation-l] Moldovan Wikipedia

[GerardM]

Hoi,
The content is actually different. It is in a different script.
Thanks,
   GerardM

On Nov 8, 2007 11:47 PM, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:

> And that makes is conclusion wrong how? If the content is not
> actually different....
>
> -Dan Rosenthal
> On Nov 8, 2007, at 5:18 PM, GerardM wrote:
>
> > Hoi,
> > You are wrong, the Romanian Wikipedia is in the Latin script.. the
> > Moldovan
> > is not, consequently your conclusion does not follow from your
> > argument.
> > Thanks,
> >      Gerard
> >
> > On Nov 8, 2007 6:54 PM, Thomas Goldammer <thogol at googlemail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Since it doesn't have content different from the Romanian wiki
> >> (probably with some exceptions but anyway), it can easily be deleted.
> >> (Maybe interested people should get time to make a copy if they
> >> haven't yet done.)
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Thogo.
> >> ----------
> >> 2007/11/8, Johannes Rohr <jorohr at gmail.com>:
> >>> Hi everyone,
> >>>
> >>> the Moldovan Wikipedia at http://mo.wikipedia.org has now been
> >>> locked
> >> for
> >>> almost a year (last modification of the main page is dated 16
> >>> November
> >>> 2006). When you hit alt+shift+e, you are presented a message saying,
> >> this
> >>> Wikipedia is locked "for now". The main page has no explanation
> >>> whatsoever why this wiki is locked, it doesn't even say /that/ it
> >>> is.
> >>>
> >>> In 2006, community members proposed the closure of this wiki for a
> >> number
> >>> of reasons, the discussion is available at
> >>>
> >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/
> >> Closure_of_Moldovan_Wikipedia
> >>>
> >>> To sum up the reasons presented by the proposers:
> >>>
> >>> - Moldovan is identical with Romanian, it is just a different
> >>> name for
> >>> the same language;
> >>> - The Moldovan Wikipedia is in the Cyrillic script, which is not
> >>> used
> >>> in Moldova, except for the breakaway republic of Transnistria,
> >>> where it
> >>> is used in schools, but only because it is forcibly imposed by the
> >>> Russian-speaking government. (see
> >>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3631436.stm)
> >>> - The Moldovan Wikipedia contains almost no original content, most
> >>> articles are transliterations from the Romanian edition,
> >>> - While it was active, it had virtually no native contributors,
> >>> the main
> >>> author wrote in dictionary-aided broken Romanian.
> >>>
> >>> Now, what we have since the database was locked a year ago is an
> >>> uneditable project with several thousand pages. This is quite
> >>> obviously
> >>> not a good thing, not least because it makes interwiki conflicts
> >>> unfixable.
> >>>
> >>> I feel that this situation is not sustainable and should be
> >>> resolved in
> >>> one way or another.
> >>>
> >>> Personally I am in favour of starting a formal proposal for the
> >>> deletion
> >>> of this wiki, similar to the one regarding the Siberian Wikipedia
> >>> (see
> >>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deletion_of_Siberian_Wikipedia ).
> >>>
> >>> If there are any other opionions or suggestions, I am looking
> >>> forward to
> >>> reading them.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> Johannes
> >>>
> >>
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