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

John at Darkstar vacuum at jeb.no
Wed Feb 25 21:53:50 UTC 2009


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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