Norwegian Wikipedia () is the Norwegian-language Wikipedia. There are two

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editions of

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: one for articles written in

Bokmål Bokmål () (, ; ) is one of the official written standards for the Norwegian language, alongside Nynorsk. Bokmål is by far the most used written form of Norwegian today, as it is adopted by 85% to 90% of the population in Norway. There is no cou ...

Riksmål (, also , ) is an unofficial 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 t ...

, and one for articles written in

Nynorsk Nynorsk (; ) is one of the two official 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 (''Landsmål''), parallel to the Da ...

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 that ...

. 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 26 November 2001. *''nn.wikipedia.org'' — a Wikipedia in Norwegian

, was established on 31 July 2004.

History

The first site, the original Norwegian Wikipedia (''Norsk Wikipedia''), launched on 26 November 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 31 July 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 1 June 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 9 April 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

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. The association was formed at a meeting at the

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in Oslo on 23 June 2007. However, it has no formal role in relation to the Norwegian Wikipedia projects. The Norwegian Wikipedia was launched on 29 November 2001, and initially there were no precise rules governing the writing of articles in a particular dialect. The development of the section led to the decision to launch a separate section in Nynorsk, which happened on 31 July 2004.Nynorsk Wikipedia runder 50 000 artikler
// digi.no On 7 August 2005, the 10,000th article was written (Edvard Langset). In April 2007,

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, an organization dedicated to the promotion of Nynorsk, donated 50,000

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r to the administrator and bureaucrat of the section Ranveig Mossige Thattai for the development of the Nynorsk section. On 11 August 2007 the number of articles exceeded 25,000 (the anniversary was Fallots tetrade). The number of registered participants by that time had reached almost 3,000. On 13 February 2008 the number of articles exceeded 30,000, while the 150,000th article was created in the Bokmål section on January 30 of the same year. The number of registered contributors to the Nynorsk Wikipedia by that time had reached 3,377. The contributors to the Nynorsk Wikipedia used Apertium to perform machine translation between Nynorsk and Bokmål, and also collaborated with Wikipedia sections in other continental Scandinavian languages as part of the Skanwiki meta-project.

References

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

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External links

* * Wikimedia Norge (from no.wikipedia.org) *
Norwegian Wikipedia (Bokmål and Riksmål)
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Norwegian Wikipedia (Nynorsk)
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Norwegian Wikipedia mobile version (Bokmål and Riksmål)
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interim website on meta

Timeline

History

See also

References

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