In that case, I think you and I have misunderstood each other. I don't think a transliteration engine should be a precondition to mo.wp being *moved*, just to it being *deleted*. I don't have any problem or disagreement with it being moved immediately.
-m. 2010/10/5 Nathan <[email protected]>: > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 7:56 PM, M. Williamson <[email protected]> wrote: >> I don't think it's right to delete content just because someone >> doesn't like it without creating any sort of alternative. In addition, >> I don't see how ro.wp community support would be needed if a separate >> subdomain were used to set up such a gateway - it would really be >> little more than a mirror hosted by the foundation. >> >> All other cases where wikis with content were *deleted* rather than >> just locked fell into two scenarios: content was replaced (zh-tw was >> replaced by a conversion system on zh), or was in a conlang and was >> migrated, sometimes by a 3rd party (toki pona, klingon, ru-sib). >> Cyrillic Moldovan is a legitimate system that is currently used by >> over 100,000 native speakers as a habitual language variety/script >> pairing, there are a handful of websites written in it and it is used >> in an official capacity by a de-facto independent political entity. >> >> It scares me to think that we could delete content, with no >> replacement in sight, for a legitimate modern language variety used >> habitually by that many people in a defined territory (and potentially >> in a diaspora, but that's open to debate and there's no solid >> documentation that I'm aware of), simply due to the expressed dislike >> or anger of a particular group of people. >> >> -m. >> > > > I don't think anyone has proposed actually deleting all the content. > Even the OP is primarily concerned about the domain, not the content > itself. My earlier proposal was to move mo.wp to ro-cyrl.wp and > redirect mo.wp to ro.wp. If the community of the Romanian Wikipedia > want to enable fluid transliteration that would be up to them, and it > shouldn't be a condition for the WMF doing the right thing. > > Nathan > > _______________________________________________ > 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
