On 03/05/05, Mark Williamson wrote:
People have been telling the new contributors about
the Nynorsk
Wikipedia, I hope? It would be a shame to have these people donate
heaps of effort writing articles in Nynorsk for no: when they could be
doing it at nn: where they would fit in better.
As long as somebody enters either nn: or no: via the main page, they
cannot really miss the existance of the other. For some months now, we
have, in order to encourage activity on both Norwegian wikipedias, had
the featured articles of the week from the other wikipedia displayed
on the main page, just below the local featured article. The two
Norwegian wikipedias enjoy an excellent diplomatic and productive
relationship, and there is a general feeling of encouragement of
"cross-Norwegian" activity
Indeed, both nn and no are also showing the featured articles of
Swedish and Danish on the main page, thus including all four major
written varieties of Scandinavian language. Also Danish Wikipedia has
followed suit by rotating through the other three wikipedias' featured
articles on a daily basis. Swedish Wikipedia is as of yet not doing
the same. The work of copying across templates (unfortunately one
cannot at this stage use templates from a different implementation of
MediaWiki) is helped by co-ordination through Skanwiki, the
Scandinavian meta-pages. There you can also find a common Scandinavian
Village Pump (Tinget), links to resources valuable to all Scandinavian
encyclopedists, and proposals for other activities that will encourage
activity across the language borders. If you're Scandinavian, and
wants to come by and see for yourself, your warmly welcomed to
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Skanwiki
Cheers,
Bjarte (:meta:User:BjarteSorensen)