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

[Ian A. Holton]

But is it free as in free beer or freedom?

--Ian
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On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Finn Rindahl <finnrindwiki at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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