[8][9] Instrumental Swedish co-founders were Linus Tolke, who partook in the prototype launch, and Dan Koehl, first system operator who pioneered the contemporary installment, corpus, and community.

[10][9][11] All of Wikipedia was still in its early stage in terms of web development, translations, as well as establishing the online encyclopedia community.

Jimmy Wales delegated the creation to two Swedes: initially in 2001 to Linus Tolke, a Swedish systems architect tasked with translating the prototype software, and subsequently in 2002 to Dan Koehl, previously creator of one of the first online encyclopedias in 1995, who concluded the translations and whom Jimmy Wales appointed as Swedish Wikipedia's first system operator.

Besides editing, Dan Koehl set up the early organisational, maintenance and community functions, such as the Swedish Wikipedia:Meta mainsite, Bybrunnen user forums, sabotage deterrence, and called to the first Tinget.

However, the founder's introduction of advertisement on the website from 20 November 2002, led its contributors to gradually abandon it for Swedish Wikipedia.

[citation needed] Although Susning.nu became the world's second largest wiki 28 May 2003, in April 2004, its editing features were closed down to all but a handful of users, which further increased the flow to Swedish Wikipedia.

[19] Since the beginning, Swedish Wikipedia like the other language editions is owned by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organisation, located in the United States.

[21] This is in large part due to a community project where bots were used in producing articles for all existing species of plants and animals.

While this practice allowed the Swedish Wikipedia to become the second largest worldwide,[24] quality suffered from a lack of sourcing, shallow articles, duplicates, and outdated information.