An'n 03.10.2010 17:47, hett Roan Kattouw schreven: > 2010/10/3 Roan Kattouw<[email protected]>: >> I don't understand why this would be insulting, but whatever... > Following the causes.com link clarifies this: it's a Russian influence thing.
If you are interested in the facts: There are 19.7 million speakers of Romanian in Romania. There are 2.6 million speakers of Romanian in Moldova (they call their language either Romanian or Moldovan, but it's the same language as in Romania). Both Romania and Moldova write the language with Romanian script. Then there are 177,000 speakers of Romanian living in Transnistria. Transnistria is officially part of Moldova, but it is a de facto independant state. Transnistria's population is about one third Romanian, one third Russian and one third Ukrainian. When Moldova became independant in 1991 the Russian group in Transnistria feared that their privileged status would change and that Romanian would become the most privileged language in the new state. A civil war broke out and supported by Russian troops Transnistria became a de facto independant state. This state holds Russophile policies and the Romanian language (called Moldovan) is written in Cyrillic. The Cyrillic script was introduced by the Soviets as a measure of cultural Sovietization. So for the Romanians and Moldovans the Cyrillic script is a symbol of Soviet cultural imperialism and more importly a dividing line that excludes 177,000 speakers of their language from participation in Romanian-language cultural affairs (at least in its written forms). mo.wp is Cyrillic but uses the code 'mo' that stands for Moldovan and would thus in theory cover all 2.78 million speakers in both Moldova and Transnistria. For Moldovans mo.wp feels like Wikimedia tries to promote Cyrillic in Moldova. The code 'mo' by the way is deprecated because ISO recognized it as being identical with Romanian. As automatic script conversion is possible, there's really no reason to keep mo.wp at all. You can just remove it completely. That requires just one small edit to the subdomain mapping. Should be much easier than a rename to 'mo-cyrl' which still uses the deprecated code. Marcus Buck User:Slomox _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
