Sources
Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.
Submit a site - Become an editor
Wikipedia. Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Are you an expert in this subject? Join the discussion and share your knowledge at Wikipedia.org.
Swedish Wikipedia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Swedish 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 was the ninth-largest Wikipedia by article-count (after the English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese editions) reaching 200,000 articles on December 23, 2006. However, on April 5, 2007 Spanish Wikipedia took the ninth position. This Wikipedia is critiziced because articles on Swedish are much shorter compared to those of other large Wikipedias. (Wikipedia statistics, Bytes per Article)
Since Swedish is largely mutually intelligible with Danish and Norwegian, administrators of the site collaborate with those at the respective Wikipedias through the Skanwiki section of the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki site.
Contents |
Originally, Swedish Wikipedia rivalled susning.nu, a wiki created by Lars Aronsson in 2001. susning.nu was by May 28, 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 January 14, 2005, the article count of Wikipedia surpassed the one of susning.nu.
Since March 2006, administratorship on the Swedish Wikipedia is only temporary. Administrators are reelected once a year. As far as it is known, only Meta-Wikipedia uses anything similar. The reasons behind this was that the Swedish Wikipedia did not have an arbitration committee and that attempts to create one had stalled. Also of concern was a growing number of administrators that either were not very active or had left the project.
The Swedish Wikipedia originally allowed fair use images citing American law. Partly because of uncertainty regarding the validity of American law in Sweden, and the validity of fair use in Sweden, it was during 2005 decided only to allow fair use in the case of logos and coats of arms.