[Wikipedia-l] Change of Interwiki name for Moldovan language

Mon Aug 22 14:35:16 UTC 2005

This looks like the debate on whether Moldovan is a language or just
Romanian.

There have been edit wars on the English Wikipedia on this very point. I
think this needs careful investigation to make sure this wasn't an invasion
from the Romanian wiki. 

Caroline/Secretlodnon

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From: wikipedia-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Wikipedia Romania
(Ronline)
Sent: 22 August 2005 09:55
To: wikipedia-l at Wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Change of Interwiki name for Moldovan language

Hi, I would like to know how it's possible to change the name of the
interwiki link for the Moldovan language from the current
"&#1084;&#1086;&#1083;&#1076;&#1086;&#1074;&#1077;&#1085;&#1103;&#1089;&#108
2;&#1101;"
to
"&#1084;&#1086;&#1083;&#1076;&#1086;&#1074;&#1077;&#1085;&#1103;&#1089;&#108
2;&#1101;
(&#1095;&#1080;&#1088;&#1080;&#1083;&#1080;&#1082;&#1101;)".
I talked to Node and he said I should contact a developer, so if there are
any developers reading this and you have some spare time, I would be very
thankful if you could change it in this way for mo.wiki.

The reason behind the change is because such a change was specified in the
Ronline proposal that was approved by the majority of Moldovan Wikipedia
users for the future of the wiki.

See:
http://mo.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ronline/Propunere#en:Proposal

The explanation is:
"Mo.wikipedia.org will be linked from other Wikipedias using the name
"&#1084;&#1086;&#1083;&#1076;&#1086;&#1074;&#1077;&#1085;&#1103;&#1089;&#108
2;&#1101;
(&#1095;&#1080;&#1088;&#1080;&#1083;&#1080;&#1082;&#1101;)".
This is to signify that the link is to a Moldovan
(Cyrillic) page and that Moldovan is usually written in Latin script."

It was basically a compromise after a huge round of negotiations over at the
Moldovan Wikipedia.

Thanks,

Ronline

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