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The Swedish 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.
With articles in a depth of , it is the largest Wikipedia by article count. It counts active Wikipedia users, including one year-elected administrators. 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. As with some other editions, the majority of articles are generated by Internet bot, nearly 68% by 2023. Since its beginning in the early 2000s, the content quality assessments have generally gradually improved along with the rest of Wikipedia.
Shortly after the creation of the English Wikipedia on 15 January 2001, more language editions were discussed. The decision to create the Swedish Wikipedia is estimated to around April 2001, then as the 4th language. The Swedish Wikipedia was started on 21 May 2001 as the 13th Wikipedia edition.Multilingual coordination Instrumental Swedish co-founders were 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 the Swedish Wikipedia its first independent franchise.
The 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.
Jimmy Wales installed the Swedish Wikipedia on sv.wikipedia.com 21 May 2001 as Wikipedia's 4th language version. All of Wikipedia was still in its early stage in terms of web development, translations, as well as establishing the online encyclopedia community. Jimmy Wales delegated the creation to two Swedes: initially in 2001 to , a Swedish systems architect tasked with translating the prototype software, and subsequently in 2002 to Dan Koehl, previously creator of one of the first online encyclopedias in 1995, who concluded the translations and whom Jimmy Wales appointed as the Swedish Wikipedia's first system operator.
The prototype "Phase I" UseModWiki software for sv.wikipedia.com was translated in May 2001 by Linus Tolke and the conclusive "Phase III" MediaWiki for sv.wikipedia.org in November 2002 by Dan Koehl. The "Phase III" PHP-engined MediaWiki Swedish interface premiered on sv.wikipedia.org 1 December 2002, where the Swedish Wikipedia has remained ever since, becoming the foundation for subsequent, contemporary versions.
After initiating prototype translations and having started a few articles, Linus Tolke left, while Dan Koehl translated the concluding software foundation and went on to pioneer the fundamental corpus of articles and categorisation. Besides editing, Dan Koehl set up the early organisational, maintenance and community functions, such as the Swedish Meta mainsite, Bybrunnen user forums, sabotage deterrence, and called to the first Tinget. This wiki "thing" of 24 November 2002 became the first instance akin to an arbitration committee on any Wikipedia language version, effectively making the Swedish Wikipedia the first decentralised franchise while the rest of Wikipedia was still under Jimmy Wales' direct personal supervision.
In the early 2000s, the Swedish Wikipedia's prototype instantiation functioned as a small, foreign-franchised competitor to the independently Swedish UseModWiki Susning.nu created 1 October 2001 by Lars Aronsson, inspired by the English Wikipedia. However, the founder's introduction of advertisement on the website from 20 November 2002, led its contributors to gradually abandon it for the Swedish Wikipedia. Although Susning.nu became the world's second largest wiki 28 May 2003, in April 2004, its editing features were closed down to all but a handful of users, which further increased the flow to the Swedish Wikipedia. On 14 January 2005, Wikipedia's article count surpassed that of Susning.nu. Susning.nu was shut down entirely in August 2009.
In March 2006, the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet published a comparative evaluation of the 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, the 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.
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