[Foundation-l] Please delete mo. wikipedia

Marcus Buck me at marcusbuck.org
Tue Oct 5 22:34:16 UTC 2010


  An'n 06.10.2010 00:16, hett Nathan schreven:
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Muhammad Yahia<shipmaster at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> So a Romanian language would not be eligible unless it allowed support
>> for Cyrillic, even if there is no community that is interested in writing in
>> it?
>>
>> My point is simply that there seems to be a lot of discussion, but I am yet
>> to see participation from people who actually want to read and write in
>> Cyrillic. I've seen the requests for closure repeated over the years after
>> it was frozen, but I have not seen anyone speaking for the community that
>> supposedly finds mo.wp useful who is actually part of that community.
>>
> As far as I've seen, the only person arguing for a usable mo-cyrl wiki
> is Mark Williamson. I sort of doubt that he is actually from
> Transnistria or a Romanian speaker, but his philosophical point seems
> to be that having a wiki in your native language and script is a basic
> human right. I'm not sure when that became the dominant criteria for
> opening or maintaining a wiki in a particular language.
>
> Nathan
Mark's self-assessment is mo-2 and he was one of the main contributors 
before the wiki got closed down: 
<http://mo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilizator:Node_ue>.

Marcus Buck
User:Slomox



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