[Foundation-l] Moldovan Wikipedia

[Mark Williamson]

It is melodramatic to classify every single minor dispute that way.

However, there really is a war in Transnistria. Now, it's technically
a "frozen conflict zone", and the status quo seems unlikely to change
in the very near future and actual fighting is not horribly likely to
just resume due to the huge presence of Russian troops in the area,
but it is a war nonetheless that was declared and has never formally
ended, and there is still no resolution to the issue.

Mark

On 10/11/2007, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's a little melodramatic to classify every single minor dispute as
> "There's a war going on"; even by wikipedia standards.
>
> -Dan
> On Nov 10, 2007, at 2:02 AM, GerardM wrote:
>
> > Hoi,
> > As it is likely that there is more to this request, it would be
> > good to give
> > it some background. When the request for closure for closing down the
> > Moldovan Wikipedia is seen as absurd as closing down the Polish
> > Wikipedia,
> > then it is a clear case of "be bold". Also we should be glad that
> > we do not
> > life after the annexation of Poland in september 1939 when this
> > would have
> > made political sense.
> >
> > As such I do not agree with the proposal but the analogy is strong.
> > There is
> > a war going on and one expression of a language is prohibited by
> > law by one
> > of the parties and we fail to appreciate it as such.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >      GerardM
> >
> > On Nov 10, 2007 5:42 AM, Robert Horning
> > <robert_horning at netzero.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Mark Williamson 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
> >>>
> >>
> >> So, you still stand by your request to shut down the Polish
> >> Wikipedia?
> >>
> >> -- Robert Horning
> >>
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