The Swedish Wikipedia (Swedish: Svenskspråkiga Wikipedia) is the Swedish-language edition of Wikipedia and was started on the 23 of May 2001. It is currently the fourth largest Wikipedia by article count with its 2,563,474 current articles, it has a Wikipedia article depth of 16.93. A majority were generated by Lsjbot, a bot, or software application. The administrators on the Swedish Wikipedia (currently 67) are elected for a fixed-term period of one year and have to be re-elected after that time. Swedish Wikipedia was launched by Jimmy Wales on the 23 May 2001 as Wikipedia's 4th language version. The "Phase I" UseModWiki software for sv.wikipedia.com was translated by Linus Tolke and the "Phase III" MediaWiki was translated by Dan Koehl together with Johan Dahlin and Max Walter. The latter, contemporary PHP-engined MediaWiki Swedish interface premiered on sv.wikipedia.org 1 December 2002, becoming the foundation for later updates. Dan Koehl was appointed Swedish Wikipedia's first "sysop". He set up the early community features such as Bybrunnen, maintenance functions such as sabotage deterrence, pioneered much of its fundamental corpus of articles, 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 Swedish Wikipedia the first decentralised franchise while the rest of Wikipedia was still under Jim Wales' direct personal supervision. More information...
According to PR-model, sv.wikipedia.org is ranked 5,703rd in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 6,037th in English Wikipedia.
The website is placed before idw-online.de and after rosreestr.ru in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
