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Before Wikipedia there was a Swedish collaborative encyclopedia called susning.nu [1]. It eventually shut down due to problems with vandalism and in the meantim
by arketyp 12y ago
Before Wikipedia there was a Swedish collaborative encyclopedia called susning.nu [1]. It eventually shut down due to problems with vandalism and in the meantime sv.wikipedia had grown larger. I suspect a lot of articles were migrated to wiki from susning, or at the very least the community did. Interestingly, susning roughly translates to grasp, as in a short format understanding.
"Because of this, Susning grew and became Sweden's biggest and the world's next biggest wiki." [1]
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susning.nu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susning.nu
- iamtew 12y agoI remember we relied a lot on it in the early 2000's, as Wikipedia at that time contained more general information, and susning.nu was useful for more local (to Sweden at least) information.
- JoachimS 12y agoActually, not that much from Susning could be migrated due to license, rights issues. The creator of Susning, Lars Aronsson is very active on Swedish Wikipedia. As far as I understood him, the content he knew the rights to (his own) could be migrated. But since the wiki is a collaborated effort and Susning had such licensing terms most stuff could not be attributed and is stuck in Susning.