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

[John at Darkstar]

There are no formal license so I would say "free beer" as for now.
John

Ian A. Holton skrev:
> But is it free as in free beer or freedom?
> 
> --Ian
> [[User:Poeloq]]
> 
> 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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