[Foundation-l] Free edition of Norways national encyklopedia Store Norske Leksikon

[Finn Rindahl]

Since our (WMF) aim is to provide free knowledge, I would say that SNL
making a free online edition is a proof of our success more than a new
"competitor". They have a lot to learn from us, we have a lot to learn from
them. And whoever is seeking free knowledge in Norwegian on the web will
have more alternatives.

Finn Rindahl

2009/2/25 John at Darkstar <vacuum at jeb.no>

> Our "national lexicon" here in Norway, Store Norske Leksikon, went
> online with its new free edition today. The new edition has user
> contributed articles. The chief editor says some of the reason for the
> new edition is the harsh competition from Wikipedia, especially
> no.wikipedia.org which outnumbered their previous article count last
> year, now counting 209,079 articles. Also the alternate version
> nn.wikipedia.org (a variation in Nynorsk) is growing steadilly, now
> counting 46,466 articles. Store Norske Leksikon now claims they has
> 300,000 articles after inclusion of two other encyclopedias, a medical
> encyclopedia Store medisinske leksikon and a biographical encyclopedia
> Biografisk leksikon. Previously they had 155,000 articles.
>
> Wikipedia in bokmål should have 300K articles around February or March
> next year, it depends on how we will be influenced by the changes in SNL.
>
> John Erling Blad
> jeblad
>
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