I support this. This was always my opinion, more or less. If Transnistria is the issue... Getting information from that place is kinda hard, but my suspicion is Cyrillic Moldovan is barely used there. I can only find one newspaper in this language, which is functioning only thanks to government support.
The only good reason for having such projects would be if there are schools functioning in this language with this alphabet. If the projects actually had some sensible content, it would be useful for the students. But the content definitely doesn't exist at the moment, and as Milos says, there are no signs that anybody is planning to step in and write some, and I'm not sure about the existence of such schools. TLDR: Close. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2017-04-15 22:19 GMT+03:00 Milos Rancic <[email protected]>: > User:George Ho poked us [1] in relation to the proposals for closing > projects [2]. I went there to deal with the simplest cases, but, > again, Moldovan... > > There are a couple of obvious reasons why this issue hasn't been > solved for a long time. Most importantly, there are *some* people who > use and want to use that orthography, so the logic says that it's not > on us to interfere with it, but to wait for the native speakers > (actually, "native writers") to appear. > > We've been waiting for ~12 years and I think we could wait for as long > as it's necessary. > > But I was reading about the issue again. You know, a kind of > compulsive reading: I knew I won't get any new information, as I'd > read all of the materials and Wikipedia articles a number of times, > but I was reading anyway. > > However, it was productive at last and I've changed my mind. > > The value of learning that particular orthography by Moldovan pupils > in Transnitria is around zero. All of them are likely native in > Russian and, outside of the specific usage, interesting to the > specialists (likely just historians), the whole corpus written in > Moldovan Cyrillic is likely the subset of what's written in Russian. > > In other words, as soon as a Transitrian Moldovan learns > Romanian/Moldovan Latin orthography, as better for her or him. And we > should support it. > > So, I tend to suggest to the Board backing up and deletion of the > projects in Moldovan. However, I want to hear what you think about it > before the final proposal. I would also suggest that we do not make > the future requests eligible as long as we do not see a substantial > number of native contributors. (Note that nobody appeared since 2005 > or so.) > > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Proposals_for_ > closing_projects#Older_ongoing_proposals > [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects > > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >
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