I agree with Olve on all counts, however, I'm worried about something:
What will be the reaction if the Romanian Wikipedia converts automatically to Cyrillic? Not just among Wikipedians, but among Romanians in general.
Mark
On 11/03/06, Olve Utne olve.utne@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everyone,
First of all: Don't worry -- this is my one and only posting on this topic.
The vote, while being clear in itself, has some VERY troublesome aspects to it. And it doesn't seem to address what ought to be the primary concern, namely to provide information to those Moldovan-speakers who read Cyrillic script better than Latin script.
With the risk of being called names by some (please don't), I make the following honest proposal:
Let the Moldovan Cyrillic Wikipedia be locked *but accessible* for now.
Install a Latin--Cyrillic converter similar to the one on SR:WP on
RO:WP. It does NOT need to be perfect, but it should render the text REASONABLY intelligible in Cyrillic. It also (at least for now) needs to work only from Latin to Cyrillic, since the editors seem to work almost exclusively in Latin script.
- Make a little snippet on the main page of :ro: to note that one
can view this WP in Cyrillic for the benefit of people in Transdnistria and whoever else might prefer viewing the contents in Cyrillic.
- Then -- and ONLY then --, archive the Cyrillic version and make it
an automatic redirect to :ro:.
This will *respect the decision* made in the vote, while it also takes care of an important aspect which was left out of the process -- namely, making the information available to ALL Romanian-/Moldavian-speakers -- and especially those who may need such information the most...
Respectfully,
Olve Utne
(from the admin team on Nynorsk Wikipedia)
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