If you agree that minorities should be catered to, but you don't believe ro.wiki is the appropriate location, then what IS the appropriate location?
Mark
On 12/03/06, Wikipedia Romania (Ronline) rowikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
I'm sorry to say this, but I think that any form of Latin --> Cyrillic conversion would be most unacceptable for the Romanian Wikipedia. Unlike Serbian (and Tatar, for example), Romanian is not a biscriptal language - it is a language written in the Latin script. Making ro.wiki similar to sr.wikimakes it seem as if the Cyrillic script is a script in which Romanian can be written as well, which is not true. The Cyrillic script for Moldovan is being used in Transnistria only, and while there may be a need to cater for content in that variant, mixing it up with the Romanian Wikipedia is, IMO, much too contoversial. In total, only about 1% of total Romanian or Moldovan speakers write in Cyrillic, and an increasingly large amount of them know Latin as well.
People here know my viewpoints on such issues (I am very pro-minority rights), but I personally find this proposal much too controversial. It risks putting an end to the Romanian Wikipedia community.
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