Swedish Wikipedia
Encyclopedia
The Swedish Wikipedia (Svenskspråkiga Wikipedia or Svenska Wikipedia) is the Swedish language
edition of Wikipedia
. It was the third edition of Wikipedia, started in May 2001 alongside German Wikipedia
, after English Wikipedia
and Catalan Wikipedia
. It is the eleventh-largest Wikipedia by article-count reaching over 400,000 articles on 19 June 2011.
Swedish Wikipedia does not allow fair use
pictures and the local upload has been disabled - all pictures and media are from Wikimedia Commons. The few copyrighted pictures on Commons are not allowed either, so that the article about Wikipedia does not have the Wikipedia logo in it.
The administrators are elected for a period of one year and have to be reelected after that time.
, a wiki
created by Lars Aronsson
in 2001. susning.nu was by 28 May 2003 the world's second largest wiki. Due to several controversies involving the authority of the founder, objections to Aronsson's decision to allow advertisement on the site, and the lack of proper tools to fight vandalism
, several prolific susning-writers switched over to Swedish Wikipedia in 2003–2004. In April 2004, susning.nu's editing features were closed down to all but a handful of users, which further increased the flow to Swedish Wikipedia. On 14 January 2005, Wikipedia' article count surpassed that of susning.nu.
In March 2006, the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet
published a comparative evaluation of Swedish Wikipedia, susning.nu and the online version of Nationalencyklopedin
. The evaluation was done by giving a selection of articles to independent subject matter experts for grading. While Nationalencyklopedin came out on top with respect to factuality and neutrality, Swedish Wikipedia received a good overall grade and came out on top with respect to being up to date and having a broad coverage, also including popular culture subjects.
Swedish language
Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...
edition of Wikipedia
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site,...
. It was the third edition of Wikipedia, started in May 2001 alongside German Wikipedia
German Wikipedia
The German Wikipedia is the German-language edition of Wikipedia, a free and mostly publicly editable online encyclopedia.Founded in March 2001, it is the second-oldest and, with over articles, the second-largest edition of Wikipedia, behind the English Wikipedia...
, after English Wikipedia
English Wikipedia
The English Wikipedia is the English-language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Founded on 15 January 2001 and reaching three million articles by August 2009, it was the first edition of Wikipedia and remains the largest, with almost three times as many articles as the next...
and Catalan Wikipedia
Catalan Wikipedia
The Catalan Wikipedia is the Catalan language edition of Wikipedia. Founded on 16 March 2001 and reaching 200,000 articles by September 2009, it contains about articles, with active users as of . It was created just a few minutes after the first non-English Wikipedia, the German version...
. It is the eleventh-largest Wikipedia by article-count reaching over 400,000 articles on 19 June 2011.
Swedish Wikipedia does not allow fair use
Fair use
Fair use is a limitation and exception to the exclusive right granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work. In United States copyright law, fair use is a doctrine that permits limited use of copyrighted material without acquiring permission from the rights holders...
pictures and the local upload has been disabled - all pictures and media are from Wikimedia Commons. The few copyrighted pictures on Commons are not allowed either, so that the article about Wikipedia does not have the Wikipedia logo in it.
The administrators are elected for a period of one year and have to be reelected after that time.
History
Originally, Swedish Wikipedia rivalled susning.nuSusning.nu
Susning.nu was a Swedish language wiki, started in October 2001 by Lars Aronsson . In its first three years , Susning.nu ran as an open wiki that anyone could edit...
, a wiki
Wiki
A wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often used collaboratively by multiple users. Examples include...
created by Lars Aronsson
Lars Aronsson
Lars Erik Aronsson is a Swedish programmer and consultant, and the founder of two Swedish web sites: the free electronic book archive Project Runeberg and the Swedish language wiki Susning.nu....
in 2001. susning.nu was by 28 May 2003 the world's second largest wiki. Due to several controversies involving the authority of the founder, objections to Aronsson's decision to allow advertisement on the site, and the lack of proper tools to fight vandalism
Vandalism
Vandalism is the behaviour attributed originally to the Vandals, by the Romans, in respect of culture: ruthless destruction or spoiling of anything beautiful or venerable...
, several prolific susning-writers switched over to Swedish Wikipedia in 2003–2004. In April 2004, susning.nu's editing features were closed down to all but a handful of users, which further increased the flow to Swedish Wikipedia. On 14 January 2005, Wikipedia' article count surpassed that of susning.nu.
In March 2006, the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet
Svenska Dagbladet
Svenska Dagbladet is a daily newspaper in Sweden. The first issue appeared on 18 December 1884. Svenska Dagbladet is published in Stockholm and provides coverage of national and international news as well as local coverage of the Greater Stockholm region...
published a comparative evaluation of Swedish Wikipedia, susning.nu and the online version of Nationalencyklopedin
Nationalencyklopedin
Nationalencyklopedin is the most comprehensive contemporary Swedish language encyclopedia, initiated by a favourable loan from the Government of Sweden of 17 million Swedish kronor in 1980, which was repaid by December 1990...
. The evaluation was done by giving a selection of articles to independent subject matter experts for grading. While Nationalencyklopedin came out on top with respect to factuality and neutrality, Swedish Wikipedia received a good overall grade and came out on top with respect to being up to date and having a broad coverage, also including popular culture subjects.