Editing Norwegian Wikipedia

{{short description|Two of the Norwegian-language editions of Wikipedia}}
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{{Infobox website
| name             = {{Wiki favicon}} Norwegian Wikipedia<br />''Norsk Wikipedia''
| logo             = [[File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-nn+no.svg|Logo of the Nynorsk edition (left) and the Bokmål edition (right)]]
| screenshot       = Målform nnwp+nbwp.png
| screenshot_alt   = Nynorsk&nbsp;[nn] (left) and Bokmål/Riksmål&nbsp;[nb] editions of Wikipedia side-by-side
| caption          = Nynorsk&nbsp;[nn] (left) and Bokmål/Riksmål&nbsp;[nb] editions of Wikipedia side-by-side
| url              = {{URL|no.wikipedia.org}}<br /> {{URL|nn.wikipedia.org}}
| commercial       = No
| type             = [[Online encyclopedia]]
| language         = [[Bokmål]]/[[Riksmål]]<br/>[[Nynorsk]]/[[Høgnorsk]]
| owner            = [[Wikimedia Foundation]]
| author           = Norwegian wiki community
| launch_date      = {{start date and age|2001|11|26|df=yes}} (Bokmål)<br>{{start date and age|2004|7|31|df=yes}} (Nynorsk)
| content_license  = {{nobr|[[Creative Commons licenses|Creative Commons Attribution/<br />Share-Alike]] 4.0}} (most text also dual-licensed under [[GFDL]])<br />Media licensing varies
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'''Norwegian Wikipedia''' ({{Langx|no|Norsk Wikipedia}}) is the Norwegian-language Wikipedia. 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 {{formatnum:{{NUMBEROF|ARTICLES|no}}}} articles on the Norwegian Wikipedia edition in Bokmål/Riksmål, and {{formatnum:{{NUMBEROF|ARTICLES|nn}}}} 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 26 November 2001.
*''nn.wikipedia.org'' — a Wikipedia in Norwegian [[Nynorsk]], 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.<ref>[[w:no:Wikipedia:Målform]]</ref>

By February 2007, the Bokmål/Riksmål edition had over 100,000 articles and the Nynorsk site had over 20,000 articles.<ref>[http://voxpublica.no/2007/02/journalister-velger-wikipedia/ Journalister velger Wikipedia]</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web
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}}</ref> However, in September 2007, the Bokmål/Riksmål Wikipedia surpassed the Finnish, and has since then been the 13th largest Wikipedia.<ref>{{cite web
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}}</ref> As of 1 June 2010, the Bokmål/Riksmål contains more than 260,000 articles, while the Nynorsk version contains over 57,000.<ref>[https://www.digi.no/artikler/norsk-wikipedia-passerer-en-kvart-million/205524 Norsk Wikipedia passerer en kvart million]</ref>
Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish are [[mutually intelligible languages]] 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 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 [[Sami languages]]. The association was formed at a meeting at the [[National Library of Norway|National Library]] 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.<ref name=digi.no>[https://www.digi.no/artikler/nynorsk-wikipedia-runder-50-000-artikler/203579 Nynorsk Wikipedia runder 50 000 artikler] {{Webarchive|url=https://www.digi.no/artikler/nynorsk-wikipedia-runder-50-000-artikler/203579 |date=20160912234453 }} // digi.no</ref>

On 7 August 2005, the 10,000th article was written (Edvard Langset).

In April 2007, [[Noregs Mållag]], an organization dedicated to the promotion of Nynorsk, donated 50,000 [[Norwegian krone]]r to the administrator and bureaucrat of the section [[:nn:Brukar:Ranveig|Ranveig Mossige Thattai]] for the development of the Nynorsk section.<ref>Christine Jensen [https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/XMm3B/Far-50000-for-Wiki-nynorsk Får 50.000 for Wiki-nynorsk. Sandnes-kvinne får penger for å skrive nynorsk i Wikipedia] {{Webarchive|url=https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/XMm3B/Far-50000-for-Wiki-nynorsk |date=20171206211653 }} // aftenposten.no, 3. mai 2007</ref>

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.<ref>[http://www.lnk.no/nyhende/381-nynorsk-wikipedia-med-25-000-artiklar Nynorsk Wikipedia med 25 000 artiklar] {{Webarchive|url=http://www.lnk.no/nyhende/381-nynorsk-wikipedia-med-25-000-artiklar |date=20171206205058 }} // lnk.no, 22 august 2007</ref>

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.<ref>[http://www.nm.no/tekst.cfm?id=2507 Nynorsk Wikipedia når 30 000 artiklar] {{Webarchive|url=http://www.nm.no/tekst.cfm?id=2507 |date=20171206220800 }} // nm.no, 14 февраля 2008</ref>

The contributors to the Nynorsk Wikipedia used Apertium to perform machine translation between Nynorsk and Bokmål,<ref name=digi.no/> and also collaborated with Wikipedia sections in other continental Scandinavian languages as part of the Skanwiki meta-project.

== See also ==
* [[Belarusian Wikipedia]], another language with two Wikipedia editions for separate orthographies
* [[Danish Wikipedia]]
* [[Swedish Wikipedia]]
* [[Finnish Wikipedia]]

== References ==
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* (16 May 2005).  [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-05-16/Skanwiki proposal|Fragmentation and cooperation on Scandinavian Wikipedias]]. ''[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost|Wikipedia Signpost]]''.

== External links ==
{{InterWiki|code=no|Norwegian (Bokmål)}}
{{InterWiki|code=nn|Norwegian (Nynorsk)}}
* {{Commons category-inline}}
*[[:no:Wikimedia Norge|Wikimedia Norge]] (from no.wikipedia.org)
* {{in lang|no}} [http://no.wikipedia.org/ Norwegian Wikipedia (Bokmål and Riksmål)]
* {{in lang|nn}} [http://nn.wikipedia.org/ Norwegian Wikipedia (Nynorsk)]
* {{in lang|no}} [http://no.m.wikipedia.org Norwegian Wikipedia mobile version (Bokmål and Riksmål)]
* {{in lang|nn}} [http://nn.m.wikipedia.org Norwegian Wikipedia mobile version (Nynorsk)]
*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Skanwiki Meta: Skanwiki]
*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Norge Wikimedia Norge], interim website on meta

== Further reading ==
* [http://www.dagbladet.no/magasinet/2006/09/13/476634.html Wiki-sjefen sensurert av leser]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071025061509/http://www.nettavisen.no/it/article661817.ece - Unngå Wikipedia, sier Wiki-sjef]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090907163341/http://www.dagbladet.no/dinside/2006/05/31/467687.html Wiki-visjonæren]
* [https://archive.today/20130223131444/http://www.bt.no/nyheter/lokalt/Herr-Wiki-besoeker-Bergen-272000.html Herr Wiki besøker Bergen] 

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