[Wikipedia-l] Moldovan wikipedia, again

[Mark Williamson]

Do you really honestly think that the Moldovan Wikipedia would ever be
re-opened, even if the entire population of Tighina showed up to
demand it? The Romanians would find some cute little way to keep it
closed.

Mark

On 24/06/06, Francis Tyers <spectre at ivixor.net> wrote:
> Well, I'm not in a position to "hand down the law" so to speak ;) It
> bothers me that certain people are so eager to close it, and it also
> bothers me that once it is closed, should sufficient interest be shown,
> the same people who voted 'close' here would 'oppose' re-opening it.
>
> I think that would be highly unfair. _If_ it is closed, there has to be
> the possibility of it being re-opened provided there is interest.
>
> Mark, I think that any Wikipedia without native contributors should be
> closed after a certain period. By closed I mean as I proposed here:
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects#Collective_failure_to_get_the_point
>
> The current content archived and a placeholder put in place. I don't
> think the "offensive" thing is important at all, I voted for keeping the
> Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia, even though (allegedly) it offended a lot of
> Balkanians. The point there was there were native speakers really eager
> to contribute. I'm just not seeing that here.
>
> As I have expounded on the same page here:
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects#General_discussion_about_small.2C_inactive_wikis
>
> I think having very low quality small Wikipedias harms more than helps.
> I think that a Moldovan Wikipedia could certainly in its current form
> have a place in something like Sabines suggestion. With regard to the
> Tajik, Nauruan, Kanuri, Venda, Xhosa, and Twi Wikipedias, the same
> applies.
>
> In short, I stand by my previous proposal, and would add that it should
> definately _not_ be voted on to be re-opened, it should only take ~9
> native speakers to request it. _Definately no vote_ -- We'll just get
> adorable Romanians pushing their brand of "democracy", and the ensuing
> clown parade.
>
> Fran
>
> On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 08:07 -0700, Jacky PB wrote:
> >
> > > ... it should be closed now
> >
> > Amen !
> > (I cut the oppinion of Francis Tyers out of a context that hides it).
> >
> > > If only it were possible to get a non-involved party to look at this for
> > > 5 minutes and decide one way or the other. It would save everyone a hell
> > > of a lot of time. What we need is a knee jerk binding judgement! (of
> > > course this is said partly in jest, but we really aren't going to get
> > > anywhere by 'discussing' this).
> >
> > Well, **you** of all are non-involved. And after following this discussion for
> > a **long** time you ended with the same conclusion: Regardless of what the Moldovan
> > language is or is not, there are no native contributors, and there is one single
> > contributor overall (who actually cannot contribute because he is at level mo-2). Isn't this enough?
> >
> > Dpotop
> >
> >
> >
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