På 10. mar. 2005 kl. 14:11 skrev Craig Franklin:
Scríobh Lars Alvik
Sorry mac, but you can't ignore the fact that
bokmål is written by the
largest share of the norwegian population, around 90-80%. If no: could
be a serverside redirect to nb: but with a portal frontpage, sure i
would go for that, but i don't think it's technicaly possible.
I disagree. I do not have Norwegian, but I think the fact that 90% of
the
country speaks a particular language is irrelevant as far as what
subdomain
it is allowed to reside on.
Let me illustrate. Let us say that rather than seperate ga: (Irish)
and
gd: (Scottish Gaelic) subdomains being set up, a single subdomain had
originally been set up, which we will call :gx. This was meant for the
"Gaelic" language. There might be some justification for this, some
dialects of Irish are somewhat interintelligble with some dialects of
Scottish Gaelic. Now, the ratio of Irish speakers to SG speakers is,
according to the en.wikipedia articles, about 4:1 (260,000 vs 59,000) -
roughly similar to the ratio of bokmål to nynorsk speakers, from what I
understand.
Now, given the logic that you're attempting to use in the no:
situation, we
would simply let "gx" remain the named the "Gaelic" wikipedia, but
only
allow Irish articles there, because after all, it is the language
spoken by
the largest share of the Gaelic-speaking population. This probably
looks,
and quite rightly so, ridiculous to those who look upon the situation
from
outside. Yet, this is the "solution" that you're proposing for the no:
wikipedia.
I think the fact that most Norwegians prefer bokmål should be
irrelevant.
If 99.9% of Norwegians spoke it, it's still cannot exclusively claim
to be
"Norwegian", and I think that it's ridiculous that it should get the
reserved domain for that language. Personally, I think the #1 solution
would be:
no: Portal page to :nb and :nn. Links to article pages here redirect
to :nb
nb: Wikipedia bokmål
nn: Wikipedia nynorsk
I can't see how anyone would have a problem with this. Anyone who
types in
"no" can get to their preferred variety with a single click, and there
is no
language confusion or feelings of unfairness on either side.
Not at all, i don't really care what code it's under, on a sidenote
your sugestion is identical to what i suggested earlyer (but didn't
belive it was technicaly possible)... But i suspect mr. Lundes agenda
is to deny bokmål the use of no: even as a redirect. I don't know if a
portal page that's seperated from the rest would work. A way to move
around this is to give nb: a "interlingual" mainpage, with links to nn:
and nn:s featured.
The problem here with the .no code is that it's also the domainname for
norway (
) being an example. And
. The debate is also comparable to the
old debate about
redirecting to en:.
Mvh. Lars Alvik