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Swedish-language edition of Wikipedia

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Swedish Wikipedia is the version of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia that is written and maintained in the Swedish language. It serves as an important resource for Swedish speakers seeking reliable information on a wide range of topics.

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Official name
Svenskspråkiga Wikipedia
Official website
sv.wikipedia.org
Image
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Commons category
Swedish Wikipedia
language of work or name
Swedish
inception
2001-05-21
IRC channel URL
irc://irc.freenode.net/#wikipedia-sv
writing system
Latin script
Wikimedia language code
sv
product or material produced
online encyclopedia
review score
3.5/5 (Average)
number of records
2621829
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Encyclopedic overview

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.

With 2,626,006 articles in a depth of 18.91, it is the fifth largest Wikipedia by article count. It counts 4,558 active users, including 64 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 bots, 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Swedish Wikipedia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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