I read the text of the petition, here: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/moldovanwikipedia/
Parts of it are very humorous. "It would be absurd to have a Wikipedia in "English" of "French" with Arabic or Cyrillic letters. It is as absurd to have a "Moldovan Wikipedia" with a Cyrillic script." Well, sure, it would be... but is there a part of the world where people actually write English or French in Arabic or Cyrillic, the way Cyrillic is used for Moldovan on the left bank of the Dniester*? If you can show me one, I'll happily support Wikipedias for them. "You would probably intervene if somebody would start re-writing the English Wikipedia in Arabic letters, and you would probably not allow that." Well, if somebody tried to start such a project within Wikimedia, it would probably be rejected... but then, there's no case for writing English in Arabic. Historically, it's not been done, and it isn't done that way by any native speaker today. On the other hand, Moldovan was written in Cyrillic in ALL of Moldova until 1989, and today it is still used on the left bank of the Dniester and (perhaps) in some Moldovan expatriot communities in the former Soviet Union. What SCHOOL teaches children English-speaking children to write their own language using Arabic letters, the way that most Moldavian-language schools teach Moldavian children to use Cyrillic in that territory? I realize this is an emotional issue for you, but please don't distort facts. If your argument is really reasonable, you should be able to make it without resorting to invalid analogies. --- * The politically neutral name for what is sometimes referred to as Transnistria or the PMR. skype: node.ue 2009/2/5 Cetateanu Moldovanu <[email protected]>: > 1. Wikipedia has a pretended version of it in "Moldovan language" using > the Cyrillic script > 2. The state language is Moldovan (identical to Romanian), and it is > written in the Latin alphabet, not Cyrillic > 3. we request you to delete the fake "Moldovan version in Cyrillic" from > Wikipedia > > We have 2,212 people on facebook who signed the petition. > http://apps.facebook.com/causes/39775 > > Or at least rename it to mo-cyrillic.wikipedia > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
