WikiWomenCamp/FAQ/Perspectives/Norway

Norway

The official language of Norway is Norwegian with two separate written standards, Nynorsk ("New Norwegian") and Bokmål ("Book Language"). This language used by some of 95% of the population as the first language, besides using other languages, which are Sami, Kven, and Romani language.

Norwegian has 93.39% internet penetration or 4,367,201 people having internet access in 2010.[1]

The Chapter

Wikimedia Norway had several women on their boards the first years. 4 in 2007-2008 and Silje L. Bakke as Vice President, 2 in 2008-2009 and Nina Aldin Thune as Vice President. In 2009-2010 Nina Aldin Thune was president and there were no more woman in the board. In 2010-2011 there was 1 woman. Today there are no women in the board. We have some women editing in Norwegian bokmål and Norwegian nynorsk and maybe in Norwegian samisk, but not so many known as women.

Wikipedia

According to Alexa, Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites in Norway, rangking 7th in December 2011. In December 2011, there were 2,720 women of all ages from Norway who were interested in Wikipedia on Facebook.[2] The Norwegian Wikipedias, ranking 15th (Bokmål) and 45th (Nynorsk) out of 280 Wikipedia languages in January 2012.[3] It has 80 very active wikipedians and 196 active contributors,[4] number of female contributors unknown.

Volunteer projects, popularity, readership, and contribution There are no women from this country involved in leadership roles on English or German Wikiversity. Their participation is minimal to non-existent.

There are no women from this country who are administrators on incubator and no active women editors from this country. The project has few participants overall, with only 44 users identified as female and 516 identified as male.

Norwegian women perspective to free knowledge

Unknown

Women in Norway

In 1850, Norwegian women status were considered as incapable, it was impossible to control their own money or entitle for any government job. They were lived under the authority of guardians, whether the father or husband. In 1845, a first step towards women's emancipation was taken with the "Law on the vast majority for single women," for which the age majority was granted at age 25, without a requirement for submitting to a guardian after that age. The fist wave of feminism in Norway was created by Camilla Collett, the first writer who broke down the obstacles of women's literature at that time and composed about education of bourgeois women in 1800s. As the results, in 1884-1885, some formal women's right organizations were established in Norway.Two significant laws were passed in 1888, the first law about married women gained majority status and the second law ended the authority of husband over the wives.

The second waves of feminism during 1960-1990, fought to obtain the same right as men. The 1960s were marked by many protests, the appearance of new ideas, and the first feminist writers of the second wave, though it was no longer enough to claim a female otherness. In the 1990s, feminism experienced some stagnation in Norway after more than twenty years of reform. Today, feminism is taking new forms. The associations and movements that grew out of the first and second wave of Norwegian feminism are adapting to these new structures, which are sometimes informal.

The Foundation

During the December 2011 fundraising appeal, no Norwegians, men or women, were featured are part of the appeal. During the 2011 Summer of Research, the WMF hired eight research fellows. Of these, only one was female, and she was from the United States. There were four males from American universities, The other researchers included men from a Japanese university, a Swiss university and a Canadian university. There were no research fellows, male or female, from this country.