Hr. Lunde: It's two bloody letters god damn it.
You have got your move
now you start asking for more?
Hr. Alvik,
As long as "no:" does not prohibit contributions in nynorsk, I have
no reason to request that it be moved to "nb:". And guess what?
I never have!
Perhaps you haven't read my proposals? I have never been in favor of
moving all articles away from "no:", nor have I supported (in Wikipeida-l,
in the Wikipedia discussions, or anywhere else) a "move" of any current
Wikipedias.
I have advocated from the start to keep status quo for "no:", in the hope
that it can remain what it is today: a common Norwegian Wikipedia.
However, it seems that a majority of people here would prefer a move.
Yes i'm probably alittle bit aggresive there, but
hey, when you have
put down so much work in something and someone suggest to do the
polite version of killing it i tend to get a little bit upset.
You have my sympathy, and if "no:"-Wikipedia does suffer, I for one
may take some of the blame, since "nb:" was my request. However,
I doubt that a (second) split of "no:" will deter many Wikipedians from
continuing to contribute. Some of them will shift their focus to either
"nb:" or "nn:", that's all.
I think it is in everyone's interest that we square the naming and location
issues while the Norwegian Wikipedias are still relatively small.
If no: were
moved to nb:, I think it would be best for
http://nb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noreg to redirect to
http://nb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norge
since it's an nb URL, so people will expect Bokmål.
I think so too.
No one disputes that. (I guess I did not include enough context in my
previous reply. It should be read together with Olve Utne's preceding
post.)
I think that "common" names should be
redirected stright to bokmål, since that is the most used language.
It would be really convenient for bokmål if most people believed in
that kind of reasoning, for that would certainly guarantee that bokmål
would still be the bigger of the two, say, fifty years from now! (Self-
fulfilling prophecy...)
Considering the size of the bokmål userbase compaired
to the nynorsk
one i belive it'll stay this way for long, but hey, it's nothing wrong
with a little competition.
Why does it have to be competition? I would much prefer cooperation!
Ulf Lunde