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| Available in | Swedish |
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| Owner | Lars Aronsson |
| Commercial | No |
| Launched | 1 October 2001 |
Susning.nu (in English literally meaning "clue.now") was a Swedish language wiki website created by Lars Aronsson (also the founder of Project Runeberg) in 2001 and active until 2009. In its first three years, the website ran as an open wiki that anyone could edit. Susning did not have a pronounced ambition[1] and could be compared in scope to Everything2; Aronsson's stated original aim for Susning was "to make it into whatever the users want it to be".[citation needed] As such, Susning was an encyclopedia, a dictionary, and a discussion forum about any concept of interest to its users. Because of this, Susning grew and became Sweden's biggest and the world's next biggest wiki.
At its peak in April 2004, Susning had over 60,000 articles on various topics, which was more than any other Swedish wiki at that time.[2] During its first few years, it was in direct competition with the Swedish Wikipedia. However, because of the website's popularity and open nature, Susning was highly affected by vandals, eventually leading to the complete shutdown of the project.[3] In attempt at preventing vandalism, many efforts were made by Susning's founder Lars Aronsson, which were mostly unsuccessful. Users who regularly edited at Susning were called "susare".
- ^ Rittsel, Pär (11 April 2003). "Visionär med oviss framtid". Computer Sweden.
- ^ Wormbs, Nina (13 January 2021). "Därför är Wikipedia fortfarande grabbarnas arena". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). p. 11.
- ^ Bjerre, Lisa (26 April 2004). "Klotter tvingar Susning.nu att stänga". Internetworld.