Wikipedia:Rezultat alegeri
Де ла Википедия ын лимба молдовеняскэ
During the period of 12 January - 12 February, a local voting has been organized to determine whether the COMMUNITY (to be explained below) sees the need for the existence of a Moldovan Wikipedia.
The vote was opened to confirmed (>25 edits) Moldovan and Romanian editors. While many of the side discussions were held in English and Russian (in addition to Moldovan/Romanian), the vote was restrained to determine the will of actual and potential editors. Some votes were rejected on this basis.
Romanian editors were accepted to vote for two reasons:
- 95% of the content was simply copied here and transliterated (no translation is necessary) from the Romanian wikipedia. In the oppinion of the moldovan organizers of the referendum, this gives Romanians a right to express their vote.
- romanian and moldovan are arguably the same language for all day-to-day purposes (cf. en:Moldovan language), which makes them potential editors.
Two votes were rejected because they were from people who did not speak Romanian/Moldovan and didn't had enough contributions to either wikipedia.
There are several strong reasons that compelled us to request the deletion of the Moldovan language Wikipedia. Among them technical, originality, and ethical arguments that we briefly expose here.
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[edit] Current status
The Moldovan wikipedia has been created, and is currently supported by a single editor: User:Node_ue. The user is not fluent in the language, which can be confirmed by any moldovan speaker. By his own testimony, 95% of the content he added on mo.wiki is transliterated from ro.wiki articles (romanian and moldovan are identical for all practical purposes, cf en:Moldovan language). The remaining articles are small stubs, most often written in broken moldovan. The only users that are active on non-administrative pages are Node_ue and Russ. The second user knows no Moldovan and only contributes by categorizing existing articles.
[edit] History
Created by Node_ue, which has been the first admin.
Its deletion has already been discussed. Consensus not reached, for the intentions of Node_ue, and the reaction of Moldovan editors was not clear at the time. At that time, it was already clear that a Latin-script Moldovan wikipedia has no reason to exist (so that even Node_ue agreed to point the latin version to the Romanian wikipedia). It appeared that his only concern is to maintain the cyrillic version of the moldovan wikipedia, which uses the Sovied-imposed script.
Following several abusive administration incidents, the adminship has been removed from Node_ue.
[edit] Deletion referendum
Was held between ..., it was opened to confirmed (>200 edits) Moldovan and Romanian editors. Romanian editors were accepted here for two reasons:
- 95% of the content was simply copied here and transliterated (no translation is necessary). In the oppinion of the moldovan organizers of the referendum, this gives Romanians a right to express their vote.
- Romanian and Moldovan are arguably the same language for all day-to-day purposes (cf. XXX).
The result of the referendum is the following:
- No moldovan editor supports the existence of this wikipedia.
- No romanian editor supports the existence of this wikipedia.
- Only two editors have abstained, showing that the overwhelming majority of the users find the existence of the moldovan wikipedia offensive.
By moldovan editor we understand here an editor that is able to contribute originally in the language.
[edit] Conclusion
In conclusion, we, the Moldovan and Romanian wikipedia editors, believe that the current moldovan wikipedia has no reason to exist for:
- it has no editor fluent in Moldovan
- it brings no information
- it is offensive for both Moldovans and Romanians.
We believe that accepting it as a hobby wikipedia (like the Cornish one, for instance) is not acceptable, due to the fact that Moldovan is the language of a living people, whose wikipedia editors are all offensed by its existence. This is related to the recent history, as the current cyrillic script for Moldovan is seen as a product of Soviet propaganda and ethnic engineering. 128.93.62.28 11:04, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Voting results
The following people voted for the closing of the Wikipedia:
[edit] Moldova
[edit] Romania
- Out_slide
- Bogdan
- Romihaitza
- Fratele lui Bonaparte, il cunosti?
- AdiJapan
- User:Dpotop/ro:Utilizator:Dpotop
- Ditae
- Vlad
- ro:Utilizator:Orioane
- ro:Utilizator:Leinarius
- ro:Utilizator:Wars
- Dacodava
- Vasile
- ro:Utilizator:MobyDick
- ro:Utilizator:Arado
- ro:Utilizator:Waelsch
- ro:Utilizator:olario
- ro:Utilizator:Bunu vio
- ro:Utilizator:SCriBu
- ro:Utilizator:Emily
- ro:Utilizator:R.S.
- Констэнцияну/ro:Utilizator:Constantzeanu
- Cosco
- AnaZ
- Dumiac
- ro:Utilizator:Evosphere
- ro:Utilizator:Laurap
- ro:Utilizator:KlaudiuMihaila
- ro:Utilizator:Strainu
With these results, a clear consensus has been reached in the group of those who speak Romanian/Moldovan language.