Kulturminister Thorhild Widvey krever signerte artikler.
digi.no, 10 April 2014 link
Google-translation from Norwegian link
Støtter nettleksikonDo not give money to Wikipedia
Minister for Culture Thorhild Widwey require signed articles.
National Library announces a grant for online encyclopedia, according to a press release from the Ministry of Culture. NOK 5 million to be allocated in accordance with guidelines issued by the Ministry. The National Library will manage the scheme. Culture Thorhild Widwey interests that the government will help the audience get "free access to multiple sources of high-quality online". To formulate the purpose of the grant: "To strengthen the provision of free lexicon as a basis for the development of knowledge and opinion formation in society. The scheme will contribute to the dissemination of the Norwegian language, date and quality assured knowledge of digital ICT platforms. Other points is to give professionals more communication channels and help maintain Norwegian who live technical language."
There is however a special requirements nettleksikon to receive grants under the scheme: The articles must be signed. "Signed content is important for quality assurance and source criticism," she says. In practice's four free online encyclopedia in Norway: Wikipedia respectively Bokmål, Nynorsk and Sami and Norwegian Store (snl.no). Wikipedia varieties have not signed the papers and consequently fall outside the scheme. This, and press releases using the word "quality control" - the keyword in the promotion to Major Norwegian many years - clearly shows who the Ministry has thought that money should go to.
Norwegian wikipedister does not particularly heavy that they can be excluded from state aid.
"We live well on Okkenhaug as well, it is stated on the contributor's message board ."
In an e-mail digi.no writes Harald Haugland, contributor to Wikipedia and given contact pressure, following on their own behalf:
"Personally, I believe that when Wikipedia community has managed to establish a lexicon Norwegian with over 417,000 articles, one will probably survive in the future without the support of the public to article production. The servers are in the U.S. and is run by donations from users all over the world. While it is good that you get a system that can ensure Great Norwegian Encyclopedia continued operation, for it is better for the public to have more online encyclopedia to choose from. I'm probably still disagree with the argument that encyclopedia articles must be written by one person and signed. Wikipedia concept shows that it is possible to have good articles written by many contributors. The actual process of several contributors serves as quality assurance, and source criticism is a process that each contributor complicit. I support the Minister of Culture in her emphasis of the importance of keeping up a live technical language in Norwegian. It's great to get universities active in the dissemination of knowledge in Norwegian in a form that reaches the most people."
Kulturminister Thorhild Widvey bevilger fem millioner kroner til en ny tilskuddsordning for nettbaserte leksikon i 2014.
Dagens Næringsliv, 9 April 2014 link
Google-translation from Norwegian link
Supports nettleksikon
Culture Minister Thorhild Widwey allocate five million kroner for a new grant scheme for web-based encyclopedia in 2014.
The National Library has been responsible for managing the scheme. "More and more of people's knowledge acquisition takes place on the internet. Therefore it is important that people have access to more sources of good quality online," says Widwey.
Is the scheme tailored for Norwegian Encyclopedia or Wikipedia will also be able to apply?
"Input from Wikipedia has been part of our work on this scheme. But it is up to the National Library to consider the applications. It is important to facilitate a greater diversity so that the public has several sources to go to."
Should Wikipedia be able to get grants, do the online Encyclopedia alter its practice of unsigned articles.
"One of the factors is that articles should be signed. It will be a very important condition for granting aid. Parliament has assumed that the signed content is important in order to exert source criticism," saying Widwey.
