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[edit] Swedish Wikiversity

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Proposal summary
Language details:
Swedish (svenska, swe ISO639-3)
Users interested in forming an editing community:
Add N beside users that are native speakers, and P beside the original proposers' names.
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Swedish is the main language of Sweden with about 9 million speakers. Wikipedia is very popular in Sweden, the swedish Wikipedia has over 250 000 articles.

[edit] Arguments in favour

  • Strongly support I think is a good idea at starting the Swedish Wikiversity.
  • Supports the idea Not all native speakers of the swedish language have a sufficient understanding of the english language to use their wikiversity.
  • Supports the idea Only a selected few of the Swedes have sufficient skills in other major Wikiversity languages

than english.

  • Supports the idea The Swedish Wikipedia has become a great success, especially when compared to articles per speaker. The swedish language has thus proved itself able to maintain a large Wiki.
  • Supports the idea The fact that one can understand what is written in another language and appreciate it's qualities does not mean that the same person can write articles with the same high standard in that other language, therefore a great deposit of knowledge might be restrained by lingual limitations. A swedish Wikiversity would therefore be a good source of new articles via translation by those who can produce higher quality texts in other languages.

[edit] Arguments against

  • "I think" is not an argument.
  • A large share (say more than 80%) of the native swedish speakers have at least a basic comprehension of english, meaning they could use that wikiversity instead.
  • The number of users on Swedish Wikipedia is still quite limited, at least when it comes to frequently active users. In total there is around 50.000 registrered users, but only a small fraction, say 200 of those, are active more than once a week and/or with significant contributions.
  • The Swedish version of Wikinews has been almost inactive since 2006, with the latest 30 days contributions fitting easily onto one page.
  • In reality only Wikipedia has an realy vivid community in Swedish, we should not start another doomed project.

[edit] General discussion

  1. Comme sur les autres projet déjà ouvert, je propose l'aide de mon robot interwiki Crochet.david 08:52, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

About the Swedish version of Wikinews, it is now very updated. Leo Johannes 22:36, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

And now sv.Wikinews is not so updated any more (again ;-). I see no chance of sv.Wikiversity ever flying... --MiCkEdb 20:31, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
The Swedish interface is clear. M.M.S. 09:31, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

In my opinion, it would be extremely unwise to start a pre-doomed project, when the only enthusiast is an 11 old kid who has earlier tried to start a Wikipedia in a Swedish dialect three times without success, also he has a history of failed projects... Based on that, and the small potential community, the chance of success is nought. /Grillo 19:02, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

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