I agree with Amir on this. Technically ro-Cyrl can mean 1) modern Romanian as used in Moldova during the Soviet period and 2) Older Romanian written in Slavonic characters.
> On 12 Feb 2018, at 15:41, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Now that I think of it a bit more, perhaps we shouldn't rush with deleting > labels. > > Moldovan in the Cyrillic alphabet is not used much now, and "mo" is a retired > language code, but while Moldova was in the Soviet Union, this language was > the language of education, press, literature, TV, and other media for over a > million people. So, it's valuable to have structured documentation about how > are names of cities and villages in Moldova, names of Moldovan people, and a > lot of other relevant things are written in this language. > > I'm not sure that a label under the retired "mo" code is the right way to do > it. Perhaps we could have labels in ro-cyrillic, and perhaps we could have > this data as Wikidata property values rather than labels. I'm not that much > of an expert in Wikidata to make this decision. But simply deleting labels > without at least a bit of extra thought is probably not the right thing to do. > > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי _______________________________________________ Langcom mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom
