A vote is essensial, if we are ever going to bury this debate, to know what the people of no: is thinking about an namechange. If there is a majority that still wants to use the domain no: and be called "norsk (bokmål)", then so be it. It may not be 100% fair to nynorsk, but then the users have spoken and the debate and dispute is over.
I belive quite strongly that it's the norwegians themselfs that should have the power to choose their own languagecode. (accualy there's no such thing as nb: and with the current technical difficulities, this is not technicaly possible). The way i see it, only registrated (and somewhat active) users on no: and nn: should be allowed to vote.
On a sidenote, forexample the www.google.no is on bokmål, you have to click an extra link to get to the nynorsk version. This is more or less what i think no: should be, on bokmål but with a well placed link to nynorsk.
But there is accualy another point of view here, the riksmål view. Riksmål would "suffer" under a bokmål wikipedia, as people would translate it to bokmål on the asumption that it's untranslated danish. Hell, i even done that several times. Therefore there 'll probably be a oposition from riksmål to the formalization of no: to bokmål (eventhough these forms are like american english and english).
mvh.
Lars Alvik
På 4. mar. 2005 kl. 02:03 skrev Mark Williamson:
I really don't think voting is a fair option.
Since, in the entire Norwegian Wikipedia community (including both no: and nn:), Bokmål speakers are the majority, it will be just about as fair as it was when the vote was held whether or not there should be a separate nn: and nb:.
You may object that no: users should get to choose the official name of their own Wikipedia, but this doesn't seem fair to me. If no: chooses the name "Norsk", even though it's becoming more and more Bokmål-only, perhaps Nynorsk could also change interwiki links to "Norsk"? They are both accurate.
Neither variety has more of a claim than the other to the title "Norsk". They are both "Norsk".
Mark
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 01:57:38 +0100, Lars Alvik larsal@stud.ntnu.no wrote:
I've transfared this debate to the forum at no: for futher discution, but my impression is that most people don't really care about this.
I've also proposed a voting over the matter, begining in a few days.
Hopefully this will be the debate to end all debates (heard that one before? :))
mvh.
Lars Alvik
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