[Foundation-l] [Wikipedia-l] mo.wikipedia.org when will you stop making joke of us ?

[Dan Collins]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Cetateanu Moldovanu
<cetateanumd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The argument for this project is that in Transnistria
>> there are people who still use Cyrillic to write their language.
>
> Then please rename mo. to another thing, MO means MOLDOVAN, and in MOLDOVA
> we write OUR language with LATIN letters.
>
> I don't really care what the transnistrian(russian) separatist criminals are
> doing there.
>
> All I want is to NOT name the CYRILLIC garbage with OUR NAME !
>
>> there are people who still use Cyrillic to write their language. For your
>> information, ISO has recently decided that Moldovan is no longer
> considered
>> to be a separate language, it is considered to be Romanian.
>
> That's good, the only thing I don't understand why mo.wikipedia.org is still
> here.
>
> Make the transnistrian language in whatever scripting you want and keep it
> for transnistrian(russian) separatists.
> But please leave alone our language name, (I repeat) it's with latin
> letters.
>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
>> wrote:
>
>> Hoi,
>> The Moldovan Wikipedia is indeed in Cyrillic. This project has been locked
>> after a big fight. The argument for this project is that in Transnistria
>> there are people who still use Cyrillic to write their language. For your
>> information, ISO has recently decided that Moldovan is no longer considered
>> to be a separate language, it is considered to be Romanian.
>> Thanks,
>>        GerardM
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Cetateanu Moldovanu <
>> cetateanumd at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>> > Hi, I'm a citizen of Republic of Moldova and I want to inform you
>> > that in our country everyone is writing Moldovan language with latin
>> > letters.
>> >
>> > When we were under soviet union occupation, they tryed to russificate us
>> > and forced to have our language written with cyrilic.
>> >
>> > In 1991, after getting the freedom to choose, we choose our language to
>> be
>> > written with latin letters, as we did before russians conquest us
>> (without
>> > ask the people) and divided from Romania (our mother land).
>> >
>> > Thereby, as a free moldovan speaking man, I'm asking you to remove
>> > mo.wikipedia.org (witch is in cyrillic and is very offensive for us) and
>> > respect our choice as a independent nation or to make it with latin
>> > letters.
>> >
>> > Thank you.
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How can people manage to be this grumpy about something this petty.
Suggesting that a country is full of criminals simply because they use
a different writing system is disgusting trolling, and has no place on
this mailing list.

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