What would http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noreg redirect to? It would be strange for somebody to end up at the nonexistant article :nb:Noreg, or be re-directed to :nb:Norge only to have to click on the Nynorsk interwiki link to get to where they wanted to be originally.

Thus I propose there be an additional provision of some sort so that when article titles are different between nn: and nb: (they aren't always different), the Nynorsk name on no: redirects to a Nynorsk article rather than a Bokmål article.

In addition, I think one extremely important thing regarding promotion of other Scandinavian Wikipedias is this: While the Sami language(s) may not be related to sv:/da:/nn:/nb:/, since they are a national minority in all of these countries (excepting Denmark), there should be prominently placed invitations in Sami, if possible (otherwise in the language of the Wikipedia they're on), to come contribute to the Sami Wikipedias if you can.

Just to make things more complicated (and forseeing a possible future issue)... currently, TTBOMK, we only have http://se.wikipedia.org/ for Sami (more specifically N. Sami). Should we create additional Wikipedias for the other Sami languages/dialects/whatever? If so, perhaps we should have a notice on the Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish Wikipedias (don't forget, Finland has Sami people too!) in some sort of "unified Sami" (which everybody can understand, even if it's not a standard in everyday use) inviting people to contribute to the appropriate Sami Wikipedia.

> > ========================================== > > MODIFIED SUGGESTION FOR LONG-TERM SOLUTION > > ========================================== > > > > > > (This suggestion is based primarily on Lars Alvik's previous > > suggestion, with modifications/additions based on arguments that have > > emerged in the debate locally on no: and nn: as well as here on > > wikipedia-l.) > > > > > > 1) The "Norsk" and "Nynorsk" interwiki names are changed to "Norsk > > (bokmål)" and "Norsk (nynorsk)" respectively. > > > > 2) The "Norsk (nynorsk)" wikipedia uses the language code nn: > > > > 3) The "Norsk (bokmål)" wikipedia is moved to the proper language code > > nb:, with the central Wikipedia developers/admins making sure that the > > extra workload on the current no: admins is kept to an absolute > > minimum. (This will in effect (see #4) only be an internal reversal of > > the two domains already de facto used by the Norsk (bokmål) Wikipedia, > > thus ensuring maximum continuity.) > > > > 4) For reasons of continuity and relative size of community, "Norsk > > (bokmål)" Wikipedia keeps the domain no:, but for reasons of > > impreciseness of the term as regards the language situation in Norway, > > this code will only be used as a redirect of links and URLs with the > > code to the corresponding nb: page. (Thus parallelling exactly the > > Danish usage of dk: and da:) > > > > 5) The communities on nn: and nb: will commit themselves to > > implementing the solution locally, with a special emphasis on > > information about and promotion of the other Wikipedia on the "Main" > > and "Latest edits" page; and also, to the extent possible, through > > putting the interwiki link to the other language first in the list of > > links in each article. > > > > 6) A specific technical solution that has been brought up is the > > splitting of the "Donations" link into a locally wikipedia-wide > > universal link to the other Wikipedia of the two. This solution, while > > admittedly clogging up the quick navigations field slightly, may have > > positive effects for the local cooperation, and should therefore be > > reciprocally applied to the nn: and nb: wikipedias. > > > > 7) In the interest of strengthening the Scandinavian Wikipedia > > community, I suggest to implement points 5) and 6) also to sv: and > > da:, thus facilitating quick navigation between these wikipedias, > > effectively creating a half-integrated article pool of about 83,000 > > articles (on 14 Nov. at ca 7 AM GMT) and an incitement for each of the > > four Scandinavian communities to cooperate and expand. > > > > 8) Work towards more integrated multilingual wikipedias through making > > the Scandinavian wikipedias a test project for the development of an > > interlingual search function limited to a specific pool of wikipedias, > > where searches and no-hit events lead to a search within the > > pre-defined pool of closely related languages. For Scandinavian, this > > would include, in order of community size, sv:, da:, nb:, and nn:.