Susning.nu was/is a Swedish language wiki, started in October 2001 by Lars Aronsson (also the founder of Project Runeberg), and it ran for three years as an open wiki. In April 2004, Susning had over 60,000 articles on various topics, making it the largest Swedish wiki at the time. Aronsson's stated original aim for Susning was "to make it into whatever the users want it to be." As such, Susning was/is an encyclopedia, a dictionary, and a discuss...
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Susning.nu was/is a Swedish language wiki, started in October 2001 by Lars Aronsson (also the founder of Project Runeberg), and it ran for three years as an open wiki. In April 2004, Susning had over 60,000 articles on various topics, making it the largest Swedish wiki at the time. Aronsson's stated original aim for Susning was "to make it into whatever the users want it to be." As such, Susning was/is an encyclopedia, a dictionary, and a discussion forum about any concept of interest to its users. It was in direct competition with the Swedish Wikipedia and could perhaps be compared in scope to Everything2.
On April 15, 2004, due to heavy vandalism by users who (amongst other things) included large quantities of pornography, all editing was disabled except for very few selected accounts. New account creation was also closed, effectively freezing the site. This state lasted for three years until about October 2007, when the site started to be opened during Sunday afternoons, and in...
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