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Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
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Available in | Swedish |
Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
Founder(s) | Linus Tolke, Dan Koehl |
URL | sv |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | 21 May 2001 |
The Swedish Wikipedia (Swedish: Svenskspråkiga Wikipedia) is the Swedish-language edition of Wikipedia, started in 2001. A free content online encyclopedia, it is the largest reference work in Swedish history, while consistently ranked as the most visited, or one of the most visited Swedish language websites.[1]
With 2,592,606 articles in a depth of 17.78, it is the fifth largest Wikipedia by article count.[2] It counts 1,810 active users, including 66 one year-elected administrators.[3] Editing collaborations with other interintelligable Scandinavian languages editions is organised by the Skanwiki project. In 2014, it topped relatively as the second largest after English Wikipedia. [4] As with many other editions, the majority of articles are generated by bots.[5] Since its beginning in the early 2000s, the content quality assessments have generally gradually improved along with the rest of Wikipedia.[6]
Shortly after the creation of English Wikipedia 13 January 2001, more language editions were discussed. The decision to create Swedish Wikipedia is estimated to around April 2001, then as the 4th language.[citation needed] Swedish Wikipedia was started 21 May 2001, as the 13th Wikipedia edition.[7][8] Instrumental Swedish co-founders where Linus Tolke, who partook in the prototype launch, and Dan Koehl, first system operator who pioneered the contemporary installment, corpus, and community. The "Thing", Wikipedia's first akin to an arbitration committee, effectively made Swedish Wikipedia its first independent franchise.
Swedish Wikipedia is owned by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organisation, along with the other language editions. It is supported locally by the national chapter Wikimedia Sweden, founded in 2007 by among others Lennart Guldbrandsson, and Lars Aronsson.