Having said that, while I consider myself a native speaker, I would not rate myself "mo-5" on the Babel rating scale (which is basically the same as native speakers with no first language attrition), but rather I rank myself at "mo-2".
Essentially, that means I can understand it, and I can speak it to a certain degree (mostly about simple things), and I can read it and write it. However, my writing and speaking skills are very deteriorated and my grammar is very poor, and I often find myself looking in a dictionary to find the equivalent for words such as, say, "helpfulness".
For that reason, I don't write many articles myself at mo.wiki -- contrary to the allegations of some, I actually care about the quality of articles there. Instead, I mostly transliterate articles from the Romanian Wikipedia.
Mark
On 28/06/06, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
I'll have you know that Moldovan is my native language. It is the first language I heard, and I heard no other language until the age of 3.
Please see: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22first+language+attrition%22
Mark
On 28/06/06, Jacky PB dpotop1@yahoo.com wrote:
Answer: NO!
The only registered user of Moldovan on the whole wikipedia is User:Node_ue (in en, mo, ro, etc.). And he's mo-2.
Dpotop
mboverload mboverload@gmail.com wrote: QUESTION: I don't care if they're native, are there any "near native" speakers of "MOLDOVAN" on en.wikipedia.org?
mboverload
On 6/28/06, Mark Williamson wrote:
And you're accusing me of spreading FUD? Psht.
Mark
On 28/06/06, Jacky PB wrote:
Hello everybody,
After sending my point of view here, I presumed someone was going to
investigate the matter, by asking questions and LOOKING DIRECTLY AT THE FACTS. To my surprise, this did not happen (maybe every high-rank admin is in vacations?).
As I noticed in my initial post of June 24th, the this lack of decision
can only lead to the situation coarsing, and the various parts stacking all sorts of oppinions. This is true for the Romanians and for the few Romanian-speaking Moldovans that support the deletion of this wikipedia. This is also true for Mark Williamson (User:Node_ue) and for the Russians that support him. There is no nativ Moldovan speaker supporting mo.wikipedia.
Now, to come back to the facts. I suggest reading my post of June 24th,
which is not, as Mark says, too high-level. It mainly notices three facts, that can easily be checked (despite all the hands-waving of Mark):
THERE IS NO NATIVE MOLDOVAN SPEAKER HERE ON WIKIPEDIA.
99% of the articles of mo.wikipedia have been copied from
ro.wikipedia with just the script changed from Latin to Cyrillic, by Mark (Usedr:Node_ue).
- Mark assumes for himself a level mo-2, meaning that he is not able
to write text in Moldovan.
All the other users on mo.wikipedia are either against Mark (including
some trolls), or create 1-line incorrect articles, or simply move around interwiki links to give the impression something happens.
This means that there is NO COMMUNITY, and that mo.wikipedia is nothing
more than a political statement without any other content. Is this the vocation of wikipedia?
MY SUGGESTION: LOOK AT THE FACTS DIRECTLY on mo.wikipedia. Hands waiving
and sending message after message with FUD is the strong point of Mark. But he cannot alter edit histories, nor user lists.
Please, look at the facts yourself.
Yours, [[:en:User:Dpotop]], [[:ro:User:Dpotop]]
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