Norwegian Wikipedia editions: Bokmål (Riksmål) and Nynorsk
Norwegian Wikipedia editions: compare the Bokmål (including Riksmål) and Nynorsk projects — their origins, article counts, history and how the two written standards shape separate sites.
There are two separate Norwegian-language editions of Wikipedia. One edition serves articles written in the Bokmål standard (including the closely related Riksmål form), while the other is dedicated to Nynorsk.
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Background and origins
The split exists because Norwegian has two official written standards. The Bokmål/Riksmål edition began in November 2001; the Nynorsk edition was launched later, in July 2004. Both projects operate under the broader umbrella of the Norwegian-language community and follow Wikipedia's general rules and policies for content.
Size and historical figures
As a snapshot from mid-2014, the Bokmål/Riksmål edition contained more than 426,000 articles and the Nynorsk edition had over 115,000 articles. Around that time these two editions ranked among the larger language editions of Wikipedia — the Bokmål/Riksmål site being twentieth and the Nynorsk site forty-sixth by article count. Current counts and rankings may have changed since then.
Terminology
- Norwegian-language: refers to the language as a whole, which includes multiple written standards.
- Bokmål (and the related Riksmål): the form used on the larger Norwegian Wikipedia edition.
- Nynorsk: the separate edition serving articles written in that standard.
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AlegsaOnline.com Norwegian Wikipedia editions: Bokmål (Riksmål) and Nynorsk Leandro Alegsa
URL: https://en.alegsaonline.com/art/71121
Sources
- meta.wikimedia.org : "List of Wikipedias"