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.
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.