There are two

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editions of

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: one for articles written in

Bokmål Bokmål () (, ; ) is an official written standard for the Norwegian language, alongside Nynorsk. Bokmål is the preferred written standard of Norwegian for 85% to 90% of the population in Norway. Unlike, for instance, the Italian language, there ...

Riksmål (, also , ) is a written Norwegian language form or spelling standard, meaning the ''National Language'', closely related and now almost identical to the dominant form of Bokmål, known as . Both Bokmål and Riksmål evolved from the Danish wri ...

, and one for articles written in

Nynorsk Nynorsk () () is one of the two written standards of the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål. From 12 May 1885, it became the state-sanctioned version of Ivar Aasen's standard Norwegian language ( no, Landsmål) parallel to the Dano-N ...

Høgnorsk Høgnorsk (, ; meaning ''High Norwegian''), is a term for varieties of the Norwegian language from Nynorsk that reject most of the official reforms that have been introduced since the creation of . Høgnorsk typically accepts the initial reforms ...

. 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

in 2005) was established on November 26, 2001. *''nn.wikipedia.org'' — a Wikipedia in Norwegian

, 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 Jimbo Wales 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

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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

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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

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site. One effect of this combined effort is the sharing of their weekly featured front-page articles among these four different Wikipedias. While the

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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. The association was formed at a meeting at the

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in Oslo on June 23, 2007. However, it has no formal role in relation to the Norwegian Wikipedia projects.

References

* (May 16, 2005). Fragmentation and cooperation on Scandinavian Wikipedias. '' Wikipedia Signpost''.

External links

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