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Swedish Wikipedia

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URL	http://sv.wikipedia.org/
Commercial?	No
Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Registration	Optional
Available language(s)	Swedish
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation

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 (after the English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian editions) reaching over 300,000 articles on December, 2008.

Swedish Wikipedia does not allow fair use pictures and the local upload has been disabled - all pictures and media are from Wikimedia Commons.

The administrators are elected for a period of one year and have to be reelected after that time.

[edit] History

Article count since July 22, 2003, up to December 2005.

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.^{[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 January 14, 2005, Wikipedia' article count surpassed that of susning.nu.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] See also

• Danish Wikipedia
• Norwegian Wikipedia
• Nationalencyklopedin

[edit] External links

Swedish Wikipedia edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Swedish Wikipedia