Since our (WMF) aim is to provide free knowledge, I would say that SNL making a free online edition is a proof of our success more than a new "competitor". They have a lot to learn from us, we have a lot to learn from them. And whoever is seeking free knowledge in Norwegian on the web will have more alternatives.
Finn Rindahl 2009/2/25 John at Darkstar <[email protected]> > Our "national lexicon" here in Norway, Store Norske Leksikon, went > online with its new free edition today. The new edition has user > contributed articles. The chief editor says some of the reason for the > new edition is the harsh competition from Wikipedia, especially > no.wikipedia.org which outnumbered their previous article count last > year, now counting 209,079 articles. Also the alternate version > nn.wikipedia.org (a variation in Nynorsk) is growing steadilly, now > counting 46,466 articles. Store Norske Leksikon now claims they has > 300,000 articles after inclusion of two other encyclopedias, a medical > encyclopedia Store medisinske leksikon and a biographical encyclopedia > Biografisk leksikon. Previously they had 155,000 articles. > > Wikipedia in bokmål should have 300K articles around February or March > next year, it depends on how we will be influenced by the changes in SNL. > > John Erling Blad > jeblad > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
