On 03/05/05, Mark Williamson wrote:
People have been telling the new contributors about the Nynorsk Wikipedia, I hope? It would be a shame to have these people donate heaps of effort writing articles in Nynorsk for no: when they could be doing it at nn: where they would fit in better.
As long as somebody enters either nn: or no: via the main page, they cannot really miss the existance of the other. For some months now, we have, in order to encourage activity on both Norwegian wikipedias, had the featured articles of the week from the other wikipedia displayed on the main page, just below the local featured article. The two Norwegian wikipedias enjoy an excellent diplomatic and productive relationship, and there is a general feeling of encouragement of "cross-Norwegian" activity
Indeed, both nn and no are also showing the featured articles of Swedish and Danish on the main page, thus including all four major written varieties of Scandinavian language. Also Danish Wikipedia has followed suit by rotating through the other three wikipedias' featured articles on a daily basis. Swedish Wikipedia is as of yet not doing the same. The work of copying across templates (unfortunately one cannot at this stage use templates from a different implementation of MediaWiki) is helped by co-ordination through Skanwiki, the Scandinavian meta-pages. There you can also find a common Scandinavian Village Pump (Tinget), links to resources valuable to all Scandinavian encyclopedists, and proposals for other activities that will encourage activity across the language borders. If you're Scandinavian, and wants to come by and see for yourself, your warmly welcomed to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Skanwiki
Cheers, Bjarte (:meta:User:BjarteSorensen)