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

[Andre Engels]

Free as in beer, of course, but still, that's the main part of what's
our mission, our at least what I see as our mission: As I see it, our
mission is to ensure that the _knowledge and information_ are
_available_ to everyone. For that, free as in beer is the important
step.

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Ian A. Holton <poeloq at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com