Store norske leksikon
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Store norske leksikon, abbreviated SNL, is currently the second most comprehensive contemporary Norwegian language
Norwegian language
Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...

 (bokmål
Bokmål
Bokmål is one of two official Norwegian written standard languages, the other being Nynorsk. Bokmål is used by 85–90% of the population in Norway, and is the standard most commonly taught to foreign students of the Norwegian language....

) encyclopedia
Encyclopedia
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. The SNL was created in 1978 when the two publishing houses Aschehoug
Aschehoug
H. Aschehoug & Co , commonly known as Aschehoug, is one of the largest independent publishing companies in Norway. -History:...

 and Gyldendal
Gyldendal Norsk Forlag
Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, commonly referred to as Gyldendal, is one of the largest Norwegian publishing houses .-Gyldendal Norsk Forlag AS:Gyldendal Norsk Forlag AS was founded in 1925...

 merged their encyclopedias and created the company Kunnskapsforlaget
Kunnskapsforlaget
Kunnskapsforlaget is a Norwegian publishing company based in Oslo that concentrates on encyclopedias, encyclopedic books, textbooks, and dictonaries. The company, created in 1975, is owned by Gyldendal Norsk Forlag and Aschehoug ....

. The name translates into English as "Great Norwegian encyclopedia". Up until 1978 the two publishing houses of Aschehoug and Gyldendal, Norway's two largest, had published Aschehougs konversasjonsleksikon and Gyldendals konversasjonsleksikon, respectively. The first editions of these came out in 1907–1913 (Aschehoug) and 1933–1934 (Gyldendal).

The slump in selling paperbased encyclopedias around the turn of the 21st century hit the Kunnskapsforlaget hard, but a fourth edition of the paperbased encyclopedia was finally secured by a grant of 10 million Norwegian krone
Norwegian krone
The krone is the currency of Norway and its dependent territories. The plural form is kroner . It is subdivided into 100 øre. The ISO 4217 code is NOK, although the common local abbreviation is kr. The name translates into English as "crown"...

r from the foundation Fritt Ord in 2003. The fourth edition consists of 16 volumes, a total of 12,000 pages and 280,000 entries.

On March 12, 2010 Store Norske Leksikon announced that from 1 July 2010 there will be no new editions of "Store Norske Leksikon", because of lackluster sales. The main reason behind this decision was stated to be because of Wikipedia.
It was also announced that the articles will not be given to the Wikipedia Foundation, with chief-editor Petter Henriksen stating that: "It is important that the people behind the articles remain visible".

SNL has been available online since 2000 and has several hundred thousand subscribers (private and institutional). The number of online articles is about 150,000. Since February 25, 2009, the online encyclopedia has been free, and users can add new articles and suggest changes to existing articles. The source code will be released as open source. Kunnskapsforlaget is currently searching for 1,000 experts who can make sure that the user-generated content is accurate, and implement it in the quality-assured core that still will be maintained.

Publishing of article written by a Minister of Norway

In 2009, the encyclopedia accepted an article by Minister of Culture and Church Affairs
Minister of Culture and Church Affairs (Norway)
The Norwegian Minister of Culture and Church Affairs is the head of the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs.-Minister of Culture and Science:-Minister of Culture and Church Affairs:-Minister of Culture:...

 Trond Giske
Trond Giske
Trond Giske is a Norwegian politician and the current Minister of Trade and Industry representing the Norwegian Labour Party in the government headed by Jens Stoltenberg....

 regarding the implementation of policies that he was in charge of.

New publisher

In 2010, the new publisher of the web-based encyclopedia was Norsk nettleksikon.

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