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everson at evertype

Nov 14, 2008, 3:04 AM

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mo.wikipedia.org

Why not just rename it ro-cyrl.wikipedia.org *right now* and be done
with it?

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everson at evertype

Nov 14, 2008, 3:40 AM

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On 14 Nov 2008, at 11:30, Gerard Meijssen wrote:

> Because this is one of the most heavily fought battles that did not
> result in a situation that is acceptable to all.

Well, since "mo" is now deprecated, re-naming it "ro-Cyrl" can be done
without really taking any decision. It's essentially cosmetic.

> The issue is that the people behind the mo.wikipedia are not living
> anywhere near the areas involved and they are not native speakers/
> writers either. It would have been good when this thing had been
> just deleted because the pain would have worn off. However, the
> decision was that when a native speaker comes along, it can be
> restarted...

I don't understand. Is it to be deleted? Is it to be re-named? If not
the former, then surely the latter.

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gerard.meijssen at gmail

Nov 14, 2008, 3:47 AM

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Hoi,
As it is it will remain in this way unless

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Michael Everson <everson[at]evertype.com>wrote:

> On 14 Nov 2008, at 11:30, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
>
> > Because this is one of the most heavily fought battles that did not
> > result in a situation that is acceptable to all.
>
> Well, since "mo" is now deprecated, re-naming it "ro-Cyrl" can be done
> without really taking any decision. It's essentially cosmetic.
>
> > The issue is that the people behind the mo.wikipedia are not living
> > anywhere near the areas involved and they are not native speakers/
> > writers either. It would have been good when this thing had been
> > just deleted because the pain would have worn off. However, the
> > decision was that when a native speaker comes along, it can be
> > restarted...
>
> I don't understand. Is it to be deleted? Is it to be re-named? If not
> the former, then surely the latter.
>
> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
>
>
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geniice at gmail

Nov 14, 2008, 5:28 AM

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2008/11/14 Michael Everson <everson[at]evertype.com>:
> Why not just rename it ro-cyrl.wikipedia.org *right now* and be done
> with it?

Because the people who actually use it would not consider it Romanian.


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thomas.dalton at gmail

Nov 14, 2008, 5:36 AM

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2008/11/14 geni <geniice[at]gmail.com>:
> 2008/11/14 Michael Everson <everson[at]evertype.com>:
>> Why not just rename it ro-cyrl.wikipedia.org *right now* and be done
>> with it?
>
> Because the people who actually use it would not consider it Romanian.

But the ISO standard that we use for these decisions does. From what I
can tell, it is Romanian pure and simple, people saying otherwise are
doing so for purely political reasons.

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gerard.meijssen at gmail

Nov 14, 2008, 5:36 AM

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Hoi,
This is not a valid argument.. By the way deprecated does not mean invalid.
That IS a valid argument why it is not necessary to rename.
Thanks,
GerardM

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 2:28 PM, geni <geniice[at]gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/11/14 Michael Everson <everson[at]evertype.com>:
> > Why not just rename it ro-cyrl.wikipedia.org *right now* and be done
> > with it?
>
> Because the people who actually use it would not consider it Romanian.
>
>
> --
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gerard.meijssen at gmail

Nov 14, 2008, 5:38 AM

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Hoi,
As it is, it will remain in this way unless the powers that be decide
differently.

When you read about the arguments why the Moldovan language was deprecated,
the argument was very much based on what an official Moldovan organisation
did. The people in Transnistria are effectively not part of the remit of
this official organisation and this makes it effectively another political
decision, not that I have a problem with the result because here perfection
is the enemy of the good.

The one question is, to what extend there is a difference between the
Romanian as spoken in Moldova and spoken in Transnistria. If there is a wish
to indicate such a difference, there is no proper way to indicate areas like
Transnistria because they are not part of the ISO-3166-1. Because of this
wilfull ommission the RFC falls flat on its face.
Thanks,
GerardM


On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Michael Everson <everson[at]evertype.com>wrote:

> On 14 Nov 2008, at 11:30, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
>
> > Because this is one of the most heavily fought battles that did not
> > result in a situation that is acceptable to all.
>
> Well, since "mo" is now deprecated, re-naming it "ro-Cyrl" can be done
> without really taking any decision. It's essentially cosmetic.
>
> > The issue is that the people behind the mo.wikipedia are not living
> > anywhere near the areas involved and they are not native speakers/
> > writers either. It would have been good when this thing had been
> > just deleted because the pain would have worn off. However, the
> > decision was that when a native speaker comes along, it can be
> > restarted...
>
> I don't understand. Is it to be deleted? Is it to be re-named? If not
> the former, then surely the latter.
>
> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
>
>
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geniice at gmail

Nov 14, 2008, 6:12 AM

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2008/11/14 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton[at]gmail.com>:
> 2008/11/14 geni <geniice[at]gmail.com>:
>> 2008/11/14 Michael Everson <everson[at]evertype.com>:
>>> Why not just rename it ro-cyrl.wikipedia.org *right now* and be done
>>> with it?
>>
>> Because the people who actually use it would not consider it Romanian.
>
> But the ISO standard that we use for these decisions does. From what I
> can tell, it is Romanian pure and simple, people saying otherwise are
> doing so for purely political reasons.

This is true yes (well mostly anyway I think one thing all sides can
agree on is that that Romanian is not written in cyrillic). However
this argument would also requires us to merge the Central South Slavic
diasystem wikis something I feel best attempted from a long way away.
Neptune perhaps.


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gerard.meijssen at gmail

Nov 14, 2008, 7:36 AM

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Hoi,
One thing that all sides cannot agree on is that Romanian is also written in
Cyrillic.
Thanks,
GerardM

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:12 PM, geni <geniice[at]gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/11/14 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton[at]gmail.com>:
> > 2008/11/14 geni <geniice[at]gmail.com>:
> >> 2008/11/14 Michael Everson <everson[at]evertype.com>:
> >>> Why not just rename it ro-cyrl.wikipedia.org *right now* and be done
> >>> with it?
> >>
> >> Because the people who actually use it would not consider it Romanian.
> >
> > But the ISO standard that we use for these decisions does. From what I
> > can tell, it is Romanian pure and simple, people saying otherwise are
> > doing so for purely political reasons.
>
> This is true yes (well mostly anyway I think one thing all sides can
> agree on is that that Romanian is not written in cyrillic). However
> this argument would also requires us to merge the Central South Slavic
> diasystem wikis something I feel best attempted from a long way away.
> Neptune perhaps.
>
>
> --
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node.ue at gmail

Nov 14, 2008, 11:11 AM

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Re: mo.wikipedia.org [In reply to]

Hi Gerard,

Certainly there are dialectal differences between Moldova and
Transnistria, but these are very minor and none of them are present in
the written language, which is essentially based (with a handful of
exceptions) on the speech of Wallachia in Romania rather than the
speech of Chisinau or Tiraspol (in Moldova and Transnistria).

One of the only examples:

The initial diphthong in pîine, cîine, mîine (pâine, câine, mâine in
Romania's official orthography) are reduced to a monophthong in most
of Moldova. In Latin alphabet, this isn't usually reflected; if it is
it is considered incorrect, even in Moldova. However, in Cyrillic the
appropriate spelling is the regional one: пыне, кыне, мыне (pîne/pâne,
cîne/câne, mîne/mâne).

However, this is not different between Transnistria and (the rest of?)
Moldova, as I said, while there are certain regional words and minor
dialectal differences between Chisinau and Tiraspol, they are not
reflected in the written language so it is irrelevant.

Mark

2008/11/14 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen[at]gmail.com>:
> Hoi,
> As it is, it will remain in this way unless the powers that be decide
> differently.
>
> When you read about the arguments why the Moldovan language was deprecated,
> the argument was very much based on what an official Moldovan organisation
> did. The people in Transnistria are effectively not part of the remit of
> this official organisation and this makes it effectively another political
> decision, not that I have a problem with the result because here perfection
> is the enemy of the good.
>
> The one question is, to what extend there is a difference between the
> Romanian as spoken in Moldova and spoken in Transnistria. If there is a wish
> to indicate such a difference, there is no proper way to indicate areas like
> Transnistria because they are not part of the ISO-3166-1. Because of this
> wilfull ommission the RFC falls flat on its face.
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Michael Everson <everson[at]evertype.com>wrote:
>
>> On 14 Nov 2008, at 11:30, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
>>
>> > Because this is one of the most heavily fought battles that did not
>> > result in a situation that is acceptable to all.
>>
>> Well, since "mo" is now deprecated, re-naming it "ro-Cyrl" can be done
>> without really taking any decision. It's essentially cosmetic.
>>
>> > The issue is that the people behind the mo.wikipedia are not living
>> > anywhere near the areas involved and they are not native speakers/
>> > writers either. It would have been good when this thing had been
>> > just deleted because the pain would have worn off. However, the
>> > decision was that when a native speaker comes along, it can be
>> > restarted...
>>
>> I don't understand. Is it to be deleted? Is it to be re-named? If not
>> the former, then surely the latter.
>>
>> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
>>
>>
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node.ue at gmail

Nov 14, 2008, 11:13 AM

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...and of course everybody always forgets Malay and Indonesian. The
people from these Wikipedias seem to have little desire to merge, but
it is a fact of life that Indonesian is just a standardised Malay
dialect, and that probably 95% of text copied from ms.wp to id.wp will
be perfectly correct, with only a handful of regional differences.

Mark

2008/11/14 geni <geniice[at]gmail.com>:
> 2008/11/14 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton[at]gmail.com>:
>> 2008/11/14 geni <geniice[at]gmail.com>:
>>> 2008/11/14 Michael Everson <everson[at]evertype.com>:
>>>> Why not just rename it ro-cyrl.wikipedia.org *right now* and be done
>>>> with it?
>>>
>>> Because the people who actually use it would not consider it Romanian.
>>
>> But the ISO standard that we use for these decisions does. From what I
>> can tell, it is Romanian pure and simple, people saying otherwise are
>> doing so for purely political reasons.
>
> This is true yes (well mostly anyway I think one thing all sides can
> agree on is that that Romanian is not written in cyrillic). However
> this argument would also requires us to merge the Central South Slavic
> diasystem wikis something I feel best attempted from a long way away.
> Neptune perhaps.
>
>
> --
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>
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everson at evertype

Nov 15, 2008, 4:11 AM

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The powers that be, Gerard?

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gerard.meijssen at gmail

Nov 15, 2008, 4:18 AM

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Hoi,
All projects are started with consent of the board. I take it that the board
has the final say on blocking / removing projects. I can imagine that the
WMF office / organisation takes this decision on there own accord. These are
the two who have the power to establish facts.
Thanks,
GerardM

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Michael Everson <everson[at]evertype.com>wrote:

> The powers that be, Gerard?
>
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Nov 19, 2008, 1:54 PM

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On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen[at]gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
> All projects are started with consent of the board. I take it that the board
> has the final say on blocking / removing projects. I can imagine that the
> WMF office / organisation takes this decision on there own accord. These are
> the two who have the power to establish facts.
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Michael Everson <everson[at]evertype.com>wrote:
>
>> The powers that be, Gerard?
>>
>> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com

Because I'm sure the Board will be *thrilled* to get involved in a
dispute that involves nationalism, factionalism, complicated
linguistics, hurt feelings, confusion about what's "true", and heated
debate and assumptions of poor faith on all sides. Come on. How is the
Board supposed to determine what the best outcome is when the
community members involved can't get anywhere near consensus? (Or can
they? I confess to not reading these threads closely). Our Board
members work hard on behalf of the projects, but they are not
specially endowed with the ability to second-guess the ISO, to make
decisions for community members about what to call the language they
speak, or (alas!) to prevent deep-rooted drama about such matters.
It's easy to think that things would be so much easier if only the
right person was in charge so *someone* could make a decision... but
that is not the way our projects work. Instead, (as you know, Gerard)
people step up to work on the issues that interest them. Sure, the
Board could choose to nuke all the Wikipedias where people can't agree
on what language they are written in. But that's not so much of a
solution as a "please shut up about this issue already!" statement.*

-- phoebe

* Which, I grant you, as an uninvolved party seems pretty darn
appealing some days.

p.s. Aren't some of the wikis in two or more scripts? I recall that at
least a couple of them have multiple tabs at the top where you can
switch between scripts if you like. Is that somehow not an option in
this case?

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Nov 19, 2008, 2:50 PM

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On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 13:54, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki[at]gmail.com> wrote:
>
> p.s. Aren't some of the wikis in two or more scripts? I recall that at
> least a couple of them have multiple tabs at the top where you can
> switch between scripts if you like. Is that somehow not an option in
> this case?

Technologically, it's possible. Politically, simply acknowledging
that the language can be written in more than one script is seen as
taking a stand on great many other issues as well, such as Russian
cultural and military imperialism, the independence of various Eastern
European regions, and the like.

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Nov 19, 2008, 11:41 PM

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Hoi,
Removing the mo.wikipedia.org is something I would at this stage in the game
prefer.

There are languages with multiple scripts. There are even languages that
support multiple scripts in the User Interface. Accepting texts in mulitple
scripts is a great way of bringing a language community together. It is not
easy and MediaWIki does not support properly but it is done.

The issue with MediaWiki support is that when Cyrillic and Arabic script
texts are mixed in the text, the script should be properly supported in the
text box part of the article. When two scripts are mixed, it is possible to
indicate what script / orthography / dialect the text is in. Standard
MediaWiki does not support this. I understand that there is an extension
that DOES allow for this. It would be good for the projects involved to have
such support.
Thanks,
Gerard

2008/11/19 phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki[at]gmail.com>

> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Gerard Meijssen
> <gerard.meijssen[at]gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hoi,
> > All projects are started with consent of the board. I take it that the
> board
> > has the final say on blocking / removing projects. I can imagine that
> the
> > WMF office / organisation takes this decision on there own accord. These
> are
> > the two who have the power to establish facts.
> > Thanks,
> > GerardM
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Michael Everson <everson[at]evertype.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> The powers that be, Gerard?
> >>
> >> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
>
> Because I'm sure the Board will be *thrilled* to get involved in a
> dispute that involves nationalism, factionalism, complicated
> linguistics, hurt feelings, confusion about what's "true", and heated
> debate and assumptions of poor faith on all sides. Come on. How is the
> Board supposed to determine what the best outcome is when the
> community members involved can't get anywhere near consensus? (Or can
> they? I confess to not reading these threads closely). Our Board
> members work hard on behalf of the projects, but they are not
> specially endowed with the ability to second-guess the ISO, to make
> decisions for community members about what to call the language they
> speak, or (alas!) to prevent deep-rooted drama about such matters.
> It's easy to think that things would be so much easier if only the
> right person was in charge so *someone* could make a decision... but
> that is not the way our projects work. Instead, (as you know, Gerard)
> people step up to work on the issues that interest them. Sure, the
> Board could choose to nuke all the Wikipedias where people can't agree
> on what language they are written in. But that's not so much of a
> solution as a "please shut up about this issue already!" statement.*
>
> -- phoebe
>
> * Which, I grant you, as an uninvolved party seems pretty darn
> appealing some days.
>
> p.s. Aren't some of the wikis in two or more scripts? I recall that at
> least a couple of them have multiple tabs at the top where you can
> switch between scripts if you like. Is that somehow not an option in
> this case?
>
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Nov 20, 2008, 12:54 AM

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phoebe ayers wrote:
> Because I'm sure the Board will be *thrilled* to get involved in a
> dispute that involves nationalism, factionalism, complicated
> linguistics, hurt feelings, confusion about what's "true", and heated
> debate and assumptions of poor faith on all sides. Come on. How is the
> Board supposed to determine what the best outcome is when the
> community members involved can't get anywhere near consensus? (Or can
> they? I confess to not reading these threads closely). Our Board
> members work hard on behalf of the projects, but they are not
> specially endowed with the ability to second-guess the ISO, to make
> decisions for community members about what to call the language they
> speak, or (alas!) to prevent deep-rooted drama about such matters.
> It's easy to think that things would be so much easier if only the
> right person was in charge so *someone* could make a decision... but
> that is not the way our projects work. Instead, (as you know, Gerard)
> people step up to work on the issues that interest them. Sure, the
> Board could choose to nuke all the Wikipedias where people can't agree
> on what language they are written in. But that's not so much of a
> solution as a "please shut up about this issue already!" statement.*
>
> -- phoebe
>
> * Which, I grant you, as an uninvolved party seems pretty darn
> appealing some days.
>
> p.s. Aren't some of the wikis in two or more scripts? I recall that at
> least a couple of them have multiple tabs at the top where you can
> switch between scripts if you like. Is that somehow not an option in
> this case?
>
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well, I see quite some issues lurking arround that involves nationalism,
factionalism and hurt feelings. At the moment none of them are acute,
but on the long run we must be prepared to deal with these issues. What
gives me hope, are the many examples where the communities show their
willing to collaborate with each other and to show good faith for each
other, for example between the serbian and the croatian community or
between the israelic and the arabic community, just to mention two
excellent examples.

Ting

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cetateanumd at gmail

Nov 22, 2008, 5:53 AM

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I'm sorry to see you people to not understand at all the problem, this
problem doesn't have anything in common with serbian-croatian or
israelic-arabic issues.
The problem is what we changed our script, and we want this to be reflected
on your mo.wikipedia

For god sake, just open your own page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldovan_language for one minute, read the
first sentence, "*Moldovan* (also *Moldavian*;
Romanian<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_language>:
*limba moldoveneascã*), written in the Latin
script<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_alphabet>"
now open http://mo.wikipedia.org/<http://mo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D3%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8D>
and
look in what scripting is it.
Doesn't this create confusions around you people and everyone around the
world ?! "Moldovan language is written in the Latin script" but still
somehow http://mo.wikipedia.org/<http://mo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D3%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8D>
is
in cyrillic.

I don't understand people commenting on our issue without understanding it,
or comparing it's situation with other absolutely unrelated to our.

There is not any nationalism here, you just got our language wrongly. Don't
you think this is something what should be important for us, and it
is something absolutely normal what we are bringing this question over and
over again ? Wouldn't you do the same if the script of your language were
got wrongly by the biggest encyclopedia in the world ? Wouldn't that hurt
you ? Wouldn't you write in the same way I'm writing in this moment ?
**
Now, I understand it is hard to delete something, but at least please rename
it to mo_cyrillic to make it clear that this is Moldovian language with
cyrillic scripts.

>phoebe ayers wrote:
>but that is not the way our projects work. Instead, (as you know, Gerard)
people step up to work on the issues that interest them.

So, your "Board members" have enough abilities to accept something, and now
you are telling me that you are seeking for a volunteer to do your job ? By
taking the responsibility to open something please follow your duties and
make sure it was a right decision. And please don't tell me you never make
mistakes.

>phoebe ayers wrote:
>Our Board members work hard on behalf of the projects, but they are not
specially endowed with the ability to second-guess the ISO,

Then how this "Board members" have voted the mo. wikipedia languages if they
" are not specially endowed with the ability " ?

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Ting Chen <wing.philopp[at]gmx.de> wrote:

> phoebe ayers wrote:
> > Because I'm sure the Board will be *thrilled* to get involved in a
> > dispute that involves nationalism, factionalism, complicated
> > linguistics, hurt feelings, confusion about what's "true", and heated
> > debate and assumptions of poor faith on all sides. Come on. How is the
> > Board supposed to determine what the best outcome is when the
> > community members involved can't get anywhere near consensus? (Or can
> > they? I confess to not reading these threads closely). Our Board
> > members work hard on behalf of the projects, but they are not
> > specially endowed with the ability to second-guess the ISO, to make
> > decisions for community members about what to call the language they
> > speak, or (alas!) to prevent deep-rooted drama about such matters.
> > It's easy to think that things would be so much easier if only the
> > right person was in charge so *someone* could make a decision... but
> > that is not the way our projects work. Instead, (as you know, Gerard)
> > people step up to work on the issues that interest them. Sure, the
> > Board could choose to nuke all the Wikipedias where people can't agree
> > on what language they are written in. But that's not so much of a
> > solution as a "please shut up about this issue already!" statement.*
> >
> > -- phoebe
> >
> > * Which, I grant you, as an uninvolved party seems pretty darn
> > appealing some days.
> >
> > p.s. Aren't some of the wikis in two or more scripts? I recall that at
> > least a couple of them have multiple tabs at the top where you can
> > switch between scripts if you like. Is that somehow not an option in
> > this case?
> >
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> well, I see quite some issues lurking arround that involves nationalism,
> factionalism and hurt feelings. At the moment none of them are acute,
> but on the long run we must be prepared to deal with these issues. What
> gives me hope, are the many examples where the communities show their
> willing to collaborate with each other and to show good faith for each
> other, for example between the serbian and the croatian community or
> between the israelic and the arabic community, just to mention two
> excellent examples.
>
> Ting
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amir.aharoni at gmail

Nov 22, 2008, 6:01 AM

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2008/11/22 Cetateanu Moldovanu <cetateanumd[at]gmail.com>:
> I'm sorry to see you people to not understand at all the problem, this
> problem doesn't have anything in common with serbian-croatian or
> israelic-arabic issues.
> The problem is what we changed our script, and we want this to be reflected
> on your mo.wikipedia

"We" means you and who?

Think twice before you say "all the people of Moldova".

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cat: http://aprenent.wordpress.com | rus: http://amire80.livejournal.com

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cetateanumd at gmail

Nov 22, 2008, 6:19 AM

Post #20 of 27 (1022 views)
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Yes, "all the people of Moldova", because the script of Moldovan language is
defined in our constitution (article 13 <ref>
http://web.archive.org/web/20070505191536/xiv.parlament.md/en/legalfoundation/constitution/t1/</ref>),
and here and now I'm doing nothing more than repeating that to you.

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni[at]gmail.com>wrote:

> 2008/11/22 Cetateanu Moldovanu <cetateanumd[at]gmail.com>:
> > I'm sorry to see you people to not understand at all the problem, this
> > problem doesn't have anything in common with serbian-croatian or
> > israelic-arabic issues.
> > The problem is what we changed our script, and we want this to be
> reflected
> > on your mo.wikipedia
>
> "We" means you and who?
>
> Think twice before you say "all the people of Moldova".
>
> --
> Amir Elisha Aharoni
>
> heb: http://haharoni.wordpress.com | eng: http://aharoni.wordpress.com
> cat: http://aprenent.wordpress.com | rus: http://amire80.livejournal.com
>
> "We're living in pieces,
> I want to live in peace." - T. Moore
>
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gerard.meijssen at gmail

Nov 22, 2008, 6:58 AM

Post #21 of 27 (1023 views)
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Hoi,
The people in Transnistra do not consider themselves bound by the Moldovian
constitution. Also the name of a language and the name of a country are not
necessarily related.
Thanks,
GerardM

2008/11/22 Cetateanu Moldovanu <cetateanumd[at]gmail.com>

> Yes, "all the people of Moldova", because the script of Moldovan language
> is
> defined in our constitution (article 13 <ref>
>
> http://web.archive.org/web/20070505191536/xiv.parlament.md/en/legalfoundation/constitution/t1/
> </ref>),
> and here and now I'm doing nothing more than repeating that to you.
>
> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni[at]gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > 2008/11/22 Cetateanu Moldovanu <cetateanumd[at]gmail.com>:
> > > I'm sorry to see you people to not understand at all the problem, this
> > > problem doesn't have anything in common with serbian-croatian or
> > > israelic-arabic issues.
> > > The problem is what we changed our script, and we want this to be
> > reflected
> > > on your mo.wikipedia
> >
> > "We" means you and who?
> >
> > Think twice before you say "all the people of Moldova".
> >
> > --
> > Amir Elisha Aharoni
> >
> > heb: http://haharoni.wordpress.com | eng: http://aharoni.wordpress.com
> > cat: http://aprenent.wordpress.com | rus: http://amire80.livejournal.com
> >
> > "We're living in pieces,
> > I want to live in peace." - T. Moore
> >
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cetateanumd at gmail

Nov 22, 2008, 7:28 AM

Post #22 of 27 (1022 views)
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I think we, the independent and the democratic Moldova country have more
rights to be bound to the Moldovian language than to Transnistria,
internationally unrecognized who are ruled by russian army ("A 1,200-strong
Russian military contingent is present in Transnistria").

I'm asking just to rename the current mo to mo-cyrillic.


On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen[at]gmail.com>wrote:

> Hoi,
> The people in Transnistra do not consider themselves bound by the Moldovian
> constitution. Also the name of a language and the name of a country are not
> necessarily related.
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
> 2008/11/22 Cetateanu Moldovanu <cetateanumd[at]gmail.com>
>
> > Yes, "all the people of Moldova", because the script of Moldovan language
> > is
> > defined in our constitution (article 13 <ref>
> >
> >
> http://web.archive.org/web/20070505191536/xiv.parlament.md/en/legalfoundation/constitution/t1/
> > </ref>),
> > and here and now I'm doing nothing more than repeating that to you.
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni[at]gmail.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > 2008/11/22 Cetateanu Moldovanu <cetateanumd[at]gmail.com>:
> > > > I'm sorry to see you people to not understand at all the problem,
> this
> > > > problem doesn't have anything in common with serbian-croatian or
> > > > israelic-arabic issues.
> > > > The problem is what we changed our script, and we want this to be
> > > reflected
> > > > on your mo.wikipedia
> > >
> > > "We" means you and who?
> > >
> > > Think twice before you say "all the people of Moldova".
> > >
> > > --
> > > Amir Elisha Aharoni
> > >
> > > heb: http://haharoni.wordpress.com | eng: http://aharoni.wordpress.com
> > > cat: http://aprenent.wordpress.com | rus:
> http://amire80.livejournal.com
> > >
> > > "We're living in pieces,
> > > I want to live in peace." - T. Moore
> > >
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effeietsanders at gmail

Nov 22, 2008, 8:19 AM

Post #23 of 27 (1020 views)
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Now you really dont sound like a nationalist, nor do you give the impression
of being non-neutral, right? I think you clearly show why no hasty decisions
should be made :)

Lodewijk

2008/11/22 Cetateanu Moldovanu <cetateanumd[at]gmail.com>

> I think we, the independent and the democratic Moldova country have more
> rights to be bound to the Moldovian language than to Transnistria,
> internationally unrecognized who are ruled by russian army ("A 1,200-strong
> Russian military contingent is present in Transnistria").
>
> I'm asking just to rename the current mo to mo-cyrillic.
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Gerard Meijssen
> <gerard.meijssen[at]gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > Hoi,
> > The people in Transnistra do not consider themselves bound by the
> Moldovian
> > constitution. Also the name of a language and the name of a country are
> not
> > necessarily related.
> > Thanks,
> > GerardM
> >
> > 2008/11/22 Cetateanu Moldovanu <cetateanumd[at]gmail.com>
> >
> > > Yes, "all the people of Moldova", because the script of Moldovan
> language
> > > is
> > > defined in our constitution (article 13 <ref>
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://web.archive.org/web/20070505191536/xiv.parlament.md/en/legalfoundation/constitution/t1/
> > > </ref>),
> > > and here and now I'm doing nothing more than repeating that to you.
> > >
> > > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <
> amir.aharoni[at]gmail.com
> > > >wrote:
> > >
> > > > 2008/11/22 Cetateanu Moldovanu <cetateanumd[at]gmail.com>:
> > > > > I'm sorry to see you people to not understand at all the problem,
> > this
> > > > > problem doesn't have anything in common with serbian-croatian or
> > > > > israelic-arabic issues.
> > > > > The problem is what we changed our script, and we want this to be
> > > > reflected
> > > > > on your mo.wikipedia
> > > >
> > > > "We" means you and who?
> > > >
> > > > Think twice before you say "all the people of Moldova".
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Amir Elisha Aharoni
> > > >
> > > > heb: http://haharoni.wordpress.com | eng:
> http://aharoni.wordpress.com
> > > > cat: http://aprenent.wordpress.com | rus:
> > http://amire80.livejournal.com
> > > >
> > > > "We're living in pieces,
> > > > I want to live in peace." - T. Moore
> > > >
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cetateanumd at gmail

Nov 22, 2008, 8:56 AM

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Gerard Meijssen said:
>The people in Transnistra do not consider themselves bound by the Moldovian
>constitution.

How did you conclude that ? Are you a moldovian living in Transnistria ?

effe iets anders, for the god sake, Transistria is a internationaly
unrecognized country created artificially by a foreign army, there are no
such as Transnistiran separate ethnic group or something like that.
Moldovian people that living there cannot change Transnitrian law as it's a
non-free country. No country in the world can challenge russia or russia
army, do you believe moldovian living there can change russian willing ? ;)

"Transnistrian local authorities insist that public education for ethnic
Moldovans in their mother tongue is done using the Soviet-originated Moldovan
Cyrillic alphabet <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldovan_Cyrillic_alphabet>,
having restricted the usage of the Latin
script<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_script>(the norm) for the
Romanian
language <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_language> to only 6
schools." <ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria#Moldovan_schools
</ref>

Please move the cyrllic version of our language to a separate subdomain
mo-cyrllic.wikipedia for the moldovian in transnistria who are forced to
write in cyrillic, and make mo. with latin letters.


On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 5:19 PM, effe iets anders
<effeietsanders[at]gmail.com>wrote:

> Now you really dont sound like a nationalist, nor do you give the
> impression
> of being non-neutral, right? I think you clearly show why no hasty
> decisions
> should be made :)
>
> Lodewijk
>
> 2008/11/22 Cetateanu Moldovanu <cetateanumd[at]gmail.com>
>
> > I think we, the independent and the democratic Moldova country have more
> > rights to be bound to the Moldovian language than to Transnistria,
> > internationally unrecognized who are ruled by russian army ("A
> 1,200-strong
> > Russian military contingent is present in Transnistria").
> >
> > I'm asking just to rename the current mo to mo-cyrillic.
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Gerard Meijssen
> > <gerard.meijssen[at]gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> > > Hoi,
> > > The people in Transnistra do not consider themselves bound by the
> > Moldovian
> > > constitution. Also the name of a language and the name of a country are
> > not
> > > necessarily related.
> > > Thanks,
> > > GerardM
> > >
> > > 2008/11/22 Cetateanu Moldovanu <cetateanumd[at]gmail.com>
> > >
> > > > Yes, "all the people of Moldova", because the script of Moldovan
> > language
> > > > is
> > > > defined in our constitution (article 13 <ref>
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> http://web.archive.org/web/20070505191536/xiv.parlament.md/en/legalfoundation/constitution/t1/
> > > > </ref>),
> > > > and here and now I'm doing nothing more than repeating that to you.
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <
> > amir.aharoni[at]gmail.com
> > > > >wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > 2008/11/22 Cetateanu Moldovanu <cetateanumd[at]gmail.com>:
> > > > > > I'm sorry to see you people to not understand at all the problem,
> > > this
> > > > > > problem doesn't have anything in common with serbian-croatian or
> > > > > > israelic-arabic issues.
> > > > > > The problem is what we changed our script, and we want this to be
> > > > > reflected
> > > > > > on your mo.wikipedia
> > > > >
> > > > > "We" means you and who?
> > > > >
> > > > > Think twice before you say "all the people of Moldova".
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Amir Elisha Aharoni
> > > > >
> > > > > heb: http://haharoni.wordpress.com | eng:
> > http://aharoni.wordpress.com
> > > > > cat: http://aprenent.wordpress.com | rus:
> > > http://amire80.livejournal.com
> > > > >
> > > > > "We're living in pieces,
> > > > > I want to live in peace." - T. Moore
> > > > >
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jhsoby at gmail

Nov 22, 2008, 9:06 AM

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2008/11/22 Cetateanu Moldovanu <cetateanumd[at]gmail.com>

> I'm asking just to rename the current mo to mo-cyrillic.


I find that request perfectly reasonable, and though it might be difficult
for developers I think it should be fulfilled – along with moving of other
language domains as well (zh-min-nan → nan, zh-yue → yue, roa-rup → rup, als
→ gsw, and possibly others; nrm should probably also be moved, but to what I
don't know).

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