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Norwegian Wikipedia
*Norsk Wikipedia*
	Nynorsk [nn] (left) and Bokmål/Riksmål [nb] editions of Wikipedia side-by-side
Type of site	Online encyclopedia
Available in	Bokmål/Riksmål; Nynorsk/Høgnorsk
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Created by	Norwegian wiki community
URL	no.wikipedia.org; nn.wikipedia.org
Commercial	No
Launched	November 26, 2001; 22 years ago (Bokmål); July 31, 2004; 19 years ago (Nynorsk)
Content license	Creative Commons Attribution/; Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL); Media licensing varies

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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 633,408 articles on the Norwegian Wikipedia edition in Bokmål/Riksmål, and 170,118 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 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.^[1]

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.^[2] However, in September 2007, the Bokmål/Riksmål Wikipedia surpassed the Finnish, and has since then been the 13th largest Wikipedia.^[3] 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 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. 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.

References

^ w:no:Wikipedia:Målform
^ "List of Wikipedias". Wikimedia Foundation. Archived from the original on June 10, 2010. Retrieved September 6, 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^ "List of Wikipedias". Wikimedia Foundation. Archived from the original on June 10, 2010. Retrieved September 6, 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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

External links

Media related to Norwegian Wikipedias at Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Norge (from no.wikipedia.org)
(in Norwegian) Norwegian Wikipedia (Bokmål and Riksmål)
(in Nynorsk) Norwegian Wikipedia (Nynorsk)
(in Norwegian) Norwegian Wikipedia mobile version (Bokmål and Riksmål)
(in Nynorsk) Norwegian Wikipedia mobile version (Nynorsk)
Meta: Skanwiki
Wikimedia Norge, interim website on meta

[1] w:no:Wikipedia:Målform

[2] "List of Wikipedias". Wikimedia Foundation. Archived from the original on June 10, 2010. Retrieved September 6, 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

[3] "List of Wikipedias". Wikimedia Foundation. Archived from the original on June 10, 2010. Retrieved September 6, 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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+| logo             = [[File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-nn+no.svg|Logo of the Nynorsk edition (left) and the Bokmål edition (right)]]
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-| language    = [[Bokmål]]<br/>[[Nynorsk]]
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+| commercial       = No
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+| language         = [[Bokmål]]/[[Riksmål]]<br/>[[Nynorsk]]/[[Høgnorsk]]
-| launch date = {{start date and age|2001|11|26}}
+| owner            = [[Wikimedia Foundation]]
+| author           = Norwegian wiki community
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+| 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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-There are two '''[[Norwegian language]]''' editions of '''[[Wikipedia]]''': one for articles written in [[Bokmål]] or [[Riksmål]], and one for articles written in [[Nynorsk]]. There are currently {{formatnum:{{#expr:{{NUMBEROF|ARTICLES|no}}}}}} articles on the Norwegian Wikipedia edition in Bokmål/Riksmål, and {{formatnum:{{#expr:{{NUMBEROF|ARTICLES|nn}}}}}} articles on the Nynorsk edition.
+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==
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 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.
+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.<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. 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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-| publisher = [[Wikimedia Foundation]]
+| publisher = Wikimedia Foundation
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+| access-date = 2010-09-06
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+| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100610073548/http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias
-| archivedate = April 22, 2006
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 | title = List of Wikipedias
-| publisher = [[Wikimedia Foundation]]
+| publisher = Wikimedia Foundation
-| accessdate = 2010-09-06
+| access-date = 2010-09-06
-| archiveurl = http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Wikipedias&direction=next&oldid=660716
+| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100610073548/http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias
-| archivedate = September 3, 2007
+| archive-date = June 10, 2010
+| url-status = bot: unknown
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 }}</ref> 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]] 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.
+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 and 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''.
+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 at 22:55 UTC Nynorsk Wikipedia passed 100,000 articles.
+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 [[National Library of Norway|National Library]] in Oslo on June 23, 2007. However, it has no formal role in relation to the Norwegian Wikipedia projects.
 == See also ==
+* [[Belarusian Wikipedia]], another language with two Wikipedia editions for separate orthographies
 * [[Danish Wikipedia]]
 * [[Swedish Wikipedia]]
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-* {{no icon}} [http://no.wikipedia.org/ Norwegian Wikipedia (Bokmål and Riksmål)]
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-* {{nn icon}} [http://nn.m.wikipedia.org Norwegian Wikipedia mobile version (Nynorsk)]
+* {{in lang|nn}} [http://nn.m.wikipedia.org Norwegian Wikipedia mobile version (Nynorsk)]
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 *[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Norge Wikimedia Norge], interim website on meta
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+{{Wikipedias in Germanic languages}}
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+[[Category:Wikipedias in Germanic languages]]
+[[Category:Norwegian encyclopedias|Wikipedia]]
+[[Category:Norwegian-language websites|Wikipedia]]
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-[[Category:Norwegian encyclopedias]]
-[[Category:Norwegian-language websites]]
-[[Category:21st-century encyclopedias]]

v t e Wikipedia language editions
6,000,000+ articles	English Cebuano
2,000,000+ articles	German French Swedish Dutch
1,000,000+ articles	Arabic Chinese Egyptian Arabic Italian Japanese Persian Polish Portuguese Russian Spanish Ukrainian Vietnamese Waray
100,000–999,999 articles	Afrikaans Armenian Asturian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bengali Bulgarian Burmese Cantonese Catalan Croatian Czech Danish Esperanto Estonian Finnish Georgian Greek Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Kazakh Korean Ladin Latin Latvian Macedonian Norwegian (bokmål/riksmål) Norwegian (nynorsk) Romanian Serbian Serbo-Croatian Simple English Slovak Slovene Southern Min Tamil Tatar Thai Turkish Urdu Uzbek Welsh
10,000–99,999 articles	Albanian Alemannic Aragonese Assamese Balinese Belarusian (Taraškievica) Bosnian Breton Chuvash Crimean Tatar Irish Javanese Kannada Kurmanji Kurdish Maithili Malayalam Marathi Nepali Occitan Odia Ossetian Punjabi Samogitian Sanskrit Santali Scots Scottish Gaelic Silesian Sindhi Sorani Kurdish Swahili Tagalog Telugu Volapük Western Punjabi Yiddish Zulu
Fewer than 10,000 articles	Bambara Bhojpuri Dutch Low Saxon Extremaduran Goan Konkani Guarani Kashmiri Northern Sami Ripuarian Tulu Wolof
See also: List of Wikimedia wikis

v t e Wikipedias in Germanic languages
5,000,000+	English (English)
2,000,000+	German (Deutsch) Swedish (Svenska) Dutch (Nederlands)
500,000+	Norwegian (Bokmål) (Norsk (Bokmål))
200,000+	Danish (Dansk) Simple English (Simple English)
100,000+	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (Norsk (Nynorsk)) Afrikaans (Afrikaans)
50,000+	Low German (Plattdüütsch) Luxembourgish (Lëtzebuergesch) Icelandic (Íslenska) West Frisian (Frysk)
20,000+	Scots (Scots) Alemannic (Alemannisch) Bavarian (Boarisch)
10,000+	Northen Frisian (Nordfriisk) Yiddish (ייִדיש) Limburgish (Limburgs) Faroese (Føroyskt)
5,000+	West Flemish (West-Vlams) Dutch Low Saxon (Nedersaksisch) Zeelandic (Zeêuws)
2,000+	Old English (Ænglisc) Saterland Frisian (Seeltersk) Colognian (Ripoarisch) Palatine German (Pfälzisch) Pennsylvania German (Deitsch)
500+	Gothic (𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌹𐍃𐌺)