There are two
Norwegian language editions of
Wikipedia: one for articles written in
Bokmål or
Riksmål, and one for articles written in
Nynorsk or
Høgnorsk. There are currently articles on the Norwegian Wikipedia edition in Bokmål/Riksmål, and articles on the Nynorsk edition.
Timeline
*''no.wikipedia.com'' (from August 2002 ''no.wikipedia.org'') — a Wikipedia in Norwegian (specified to be Norwegian
Bokmål/
Riksmål in 2005) was established on November 26, 2001.
*''nn.wikipedia.org'' — a Wikipedia in Norwegian
Nynorsk, was established on July 31, 2004.
History
The first site, the original Norwegian Wikipedia (''Norsk Wikipedia''), launched on November 26, 2001, and originally did not specify which written standard could/should be used, although ''de facto'' almost all the articles were written in Bokmål/Riksmål. The Norwegian Wikipedia originally had the address ''no.wikipedia.com'', but in August 2002 all Wikipedia editions moved from the ''wikipedia.com'' domain to the ''wikipedia.org'' domain, shortly after
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had announced that Wikipedia would never have commercial advertisements.
A Nynorsk-specific Wikipedia was launched on July 31, 2004, and grew quickly. Following a vote in 2005, the main Norwegian site became Bokmål and Riksmål only.
By February 2007, the Bokmål/Riksmål edition had over 100,000 articles and the Nynorsk site had over 20,000 articles. In February 2006, the Bokmål/Riksmål edition became the thirteenth Wikipedia to have more than 50,000 articles, and one year later it was the fourteenth to reach 100,000. After the
Finnish Wikipedia surpassed it in April 2006 it was once again the 14th largest Wikipedia by article count. However, in September 2007, the Bokmål/Riksmål Wikipedia surpassed the Finnish, and has since then been the 13th largest Wikipedia. As of June 1, 2010, the Bokmål/Riksmål contains more than 260,000 articles, while the Nynorsk version contains over 57,000.
Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish are
mutually intelligible languages
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and can be understood by most speakers of each. The sites collaborate with the other Scandinavian Wikipedias through the ''Skanwiki'' section of the
Wikimedia Foundation's
Meta-Wiki site. One effect of this combined effort is the sharing of their weekly featured front-page articles among these four different Wikipedias.
While the
ISO 639 two-letter code for Bokmål is ''nb'', the Bokmål/Riksmål Norwegian Wikipedia continues to be hosted at ''no.wikipedia.org'', while the narrower ''nb'' code redirects to that site. The Nynorsk code is ''nn'', and the Nynorsk Wikipedia is hosted at ''nn.wikipedia.org''.
On April 9, 2013, the Nynorsk Wikipedia passed 100,000 articles.
''Wikimedia Norge'' is a Norwegian private membership association with the purpose to support Wikimedia's projects, in particular those in Norwegian and
Sami languages
Acronyms
* SAMI, ''Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange'', a closed-captioning format developed by Microsoft
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. The association was formed at a meeting at the
National Library in Oslo on June 23, 2007. However, it has no formal role in relation to the Norwegian Wikipedia projects.
See also
*
Danish Wikipedia
*
Swedish Wikipedia
The Swedish Wikipedia ( sv, Svenskspråkiga Wikipedia) is the Swedish-language edition of Wikipedia and was started on the 23 of May 2001. It is currently the largest Wikipedia by article count with its current articles, it has a ''Wikipedia ...
References
* (May 16, 2005).
Fragmentation and cooperation on Scandinavian Wikipedias. ''
Wikipedia Signpost''.
External links
*
Wikimedia Norge (from no.wikipedia.org)
*
Norwegian Wikipedia (Bokmål and Riksmål)*
Norwegian Wikipedia (Nynorsk)*
Norwegian Wikipedia mobile version (Bokmål and Riksmål)*
Norwegian Wikipedia mobile version (Nynorsk)Meta: SkanwikiWikimedia Norge
interim website on meta
{{Wikipedias in Germanic languages
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Internet properties established in 2001
Norwegian encyclopedias
Norwegian-language websites
Wikipedias in Germanic languages