Swedish Wikipedia
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 The Main Page of the Swedish Wikipedia on 2 May 2008. | |
Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
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| Available in | Swedish |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| URL | sv |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
The Swedish Wikipedia (Svenskspråkiga Wikipedia or Svenska Wikipedia) is the Swedish language edition of Wikipedia. It was the third [citation needed] 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.[1]
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.
History
Originally, Swedish Wikipedia rivalled susning.nu, 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.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed]
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.[2]
See also
References
- ^ "Nu har vi 400 000" (Press release) (in Swedish). Wikimedia Sverige. 19 June 2011. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
- ^ Nandra, Ulrika (30 March 2006). "Gratis nätlexikon får bra betyg". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 21 June 2011. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
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