[Foundation-l] Moldovan Wikipedia

Mark Williamson node.ue at gmail.com
Sat Nov 10 02:09:59 UTC 2007


Oh, and with two (three?) exceptions that lasted about a day each,
I've never been blocked on en.wp. All blocks with one exception were,
I think, actually related to Moldovan issues.

On 09/11/2007, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/11/2007, Robert Horning <robert_horning at netzero.net> wrote:
> > The primary criticism that I felt was valid in the whole mess was the
> > fact that only non-native speakers were even involved with creating
> > content for the Moldovan Wikipedia, including one particularly
> > argumentative individual who was an American that was blocked from
> > en.wikipedia due to flame and edit wars, and moved on to smaller wikis
> > like the Moldovan Wikipedia because he could be a "big fish" there.  I'm
> > not sure where he picked up Romanian or Moldovan as a language, but he
> > was also quite active on several other language editions of Wikipedia as
> > well, and was one of the leading opponents of closing down the Moldovan
> > Wikipedia.  In short, I don't really consider most of those opposed to
> > closing down this edition of Wikipedia to be all that credible, as has
> > been the general concensus on this issue when brought up on Meta.
>
> I'm curious as to the identity of this individual. I'm guessing you're
> referring to me; for your information, I'm not blocked on en.wp.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Node_ue
>
> I also don't enjoy the badmouthing.
>
> Mark
>


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