Last modified: 2013-07-25 09:50:55 UTC
Please move the Moldovan Wikipedia to another, more accurate, language code, per the discussion on the wikitech-l mailing list (see the URL). Here's what Brion said on the mailing list: == Moldovan == mo.wikipedia.org -> mo-cyrl.wikipedia.org mo.wiktionary.org -> mo-cyrl.wiktionary.org The official Moldovan language is the same as Romanian, using Latin script and same orthography as on ro.wikipedia.org. Latin script was officially adopted in 1989, replacing Soviet-era Cyrillic script; use of Cyrillic script is still "official" in an unrecognized, lightly-populated breakaway region but if people there use it, they don't seem to edit Wikipedia... The 'mo' language code has been officially deprecated from ISO 639-1/2 as of November 3, 2008; "Moldovan" in general use is just Romanian, and is covered by ro.wikipedia.org. mo.wikipedia.org has not actually been edited since December 2006. mo.wiktionary.org seems to have.... 4 definition pages, which only contain translations (no definitions!) Being inactive, these projects could be closed in addition to / instead of the rename. Use of tag 'mo-cyrl' would follow existing IANA-registered language subtags such as 'bs-Cyrl' and 'bs-Latn' for Cyrillic and Latin script variants. Most likely, for compatibility we would redirect the existing 'mo' URLs to the new 'mo-cyrl' ones, but they would now be visibly marked by the subtag as being "yes we know, it's Cyrillic here". If we're going to lock the site as well, adding a sitenotice pointing to the Romanian wiki is probably wise.
(In reply to comment #0) > The 'mo' language code has been officially deprecated from ISO 639-1/2 > as of November 3, 2008; "Moldovan" in general use is just Romanian, and > is covered by ro.wikipedia.org. > [..] > Use of tag 'mo-cyrl' would follow existing IANA-registered language > subtags such as 'bs-Cyrl' and 'bs-Latn' for Cyrillic and Latin script > variants. Pharos pointed out that it would also be moved to ro-cyrl . Should we use that or mo-cyrl?
Why not simply delete it, since it was closed 3.5 years ago anyway?
Indeed, and it looks like there might be consensus for removing it altogether from all.dblist as seen here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Deletion_of_Moldovan_Wikipedia so this bug might not even be necessary.
the "might" part might be the problem. consensus to delete?
Language committee has taken responsibility for closing the projects. Thus, all of not done requests should be closed and opened just per the policy created in 2011: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Closing_projects_policy
Milos: What does the policy say for this specific case? Keep closed? (and move as requested?) Or delete?
Policy doesn't say anything. LangCom discussed about this issue and didn't make decision. Thus, status quo.