Swedish Wikipedia

Infobox website
name = Swedish Wikipedia


collapsible = yes

caption =
url = http://sv.wikipedia.org/
commercial = No
location = Miami, Florida
type = Internet encyclopedia project
language = Swedish
registration = Optional
owner = Wikimedia Foundation
author = The Swedish Wikipedia ("Svenskspråkiga Wikipedia", until 2006 "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 280,000 articles on May, 2008.

History

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. Fact|date=March 2008 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.Fact|date=March 2008

Since March 2006, administratorship on the Swedish Wikipedia is only temporary. Administrators are reelected once a year (as in Meta-Wikipedia and Dutch Wikipedia). 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.

Organisation

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. Since then the uploading question has been widely discussed on Swedish Wikipedia. In the discussion for the so called during 2007, the Swedish Wikipedia community decided to delete all media and stop the local uploading entirely.

ee also

*Danish Wikipedia
*Norwegian Wikipedia
*Nationalencyklopedin

External links

*Swedish Wikipedia