Wiki143:WikiProject Sweden
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Scope
The Sweden WikiProject is a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to Sweden. The goal of the project is to improve the general quality of Sweden-related articles. It is a central place for assistance, guidance and help in the creation, improvement and management of all Sweden-related articles. For article assessment, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Sweden/Assessment.
If you feel that you can have a positive contribution to the project, feel free to become a member by adding your username to the list of members, below. If you don't know what to write or where to begin, or if you have doubts or ideas on how to improve an article, please address the project's discussion forum.
Project management
Article alerts
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Departments
Currently active departments
- Requested articles
- Members of the Riksdag - members of the Swedish Riksdag.
- Nordic cinema task force
Related projects and task forces:
- Norse history and culture
- Nordic military history
- Sweden Ice Hockey
- Sweden Football
- Sweden Floorball
Project resources
- Swedish Wikipedians' Notice Board and subpages.
- Swedish-English Terminology
- Commons, article Sverige
- Commons, category Sweden
- Category:Sweden-related lists
- Warburg, Swedish Literature: List of content and links to original pages of Karl Warburg, Svensk litteraturhistoria i sammandrag (1904) at Projekt Runeberg
- Wieselgren, Ur vår samtid: List of mostly illustrated biographies in Harald Wieselgren's Ur vår samtid (1880), with links to original pages at Projekt Runeberg.
- Lists of biographies in Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon, 2nd ed. (1906):
- Coat of arms, of Swedish municipalities, cities, counties, etc. This department is coordinated with users from Swedish Wikipedia and Commons.
- Cartography, of Swedish municipalities, cities, counties, etc. This department is coordinated with users from Swedish Wikipedia and Commons.
- Architecture -- castles, churches, etc. This department is coordinated with users from Swedish Wikipedia and Commons.
- Improvement requests (old)
Templates
- Template:Tl – invitation template for new, potential project members
- Template:Tl – The WikiProject Sweden userbox for your userpage. Looks like this:
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- Template:Tl – The Swedish Barnstar of National Merit is an award that you can give to users you think deserve it. Looks like this:
- Template:Tl – For use on talk pages of articles under the scope of this project to show quality and importance of the article.
Members
Active members
To join WikiProject Sweden, edit this section and add the Wikitext #{{subst:me}} with your areas of interest to the bottom of the following list of members. Members should also place member identification on their user page.
- (t) Josve05a (c) 13:23, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
- User:Scholar90 (ABBA related)
- User:Newroderick895 (Anything)
- Ipigott (Art, architecture, can help with translation)
- User:Yakikaki (Art history and architecture, mostly)
- AddyFBG (talk) 18:12, 9 March 2013 (UTC) (In present mainly interested of Swedish biographies)
- User:Francoisalex2 (Swedish Innovation System)
- User:Finnish Gas (Swedish football)
- User:Chiswick Chap (loves Bellman)
- Kajervi (talk) 12:25, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
- Reckless182 (talk) 16:19, 18 December 2010 (UTC) (Mostly football)
- Anarkitekt (talk) 13:01, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
- Bjorklund_ks (Interested in history articles and Swedish communities in #Lindsborg#Kansas, USA)
- Fred-J
- Krm500
- Elisson
- Pia_L
- User:Jessecarllane
- Williamborg (Bill) 05:17, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
- Screensaver (Mostly interested in history articles)
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- Eric Scott (21st Century articles)
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- Dentren | Talk 19:41, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
- Supaluminal 11:16, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
- Herr Feller Interested in Germanic traditions
- Nidator
- Usch
- Väsk 20:37, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
- Natox
- Robert (ballet, contemporary dance, and theatre) jag talar flytande svenska fast jag är amerikan.
- User:Spiby
- Bonadea (fairly eclectic interests including folk music, geography and literature)
- User:Pel_thal
- Halmstad, Talk:Halmstad
- ScarianCall me Pat! - Joining for the fun of it.
- Sulisaaa
- Albertgenii12
- Roger Workman
- Arwyth Geography, Environmental Studies
- Tomas e
- Rje.
- Marek69 talk
- Närking
- Lady Weaxzezz (geography, history, literature etc.)
- JohnTheSupercargo Interested in most fields. I translate Sw. to Eng. professionally.
- Njaker
- decltype Just noticed three of the articles I work in the article alerts. Might as well join up.
- Polluxian- I love Sweden. Love to create Swedish sportpersons articles.
- EWR
- Julle
- User:Mats33 I speak Swedish fluently and can perhaps help a little with translations.
- Rursus Speakar Svengliska prittigt fluentligt.
- DeSwedena90cc
- Esuzu From Sweden and have mainly worked with Sweden related articles so far, such as Nobel Prize
- User:Rick.nolan Main interest: Companies in the technology sector and those making this world a little better (Health, Life Science, ..), preferably a combination.
- ClaesG Quality Engineer in the steel industry. Other interests: Literature, Aviation.
- User:deegee31Main interest: Peter Forsskal (see Wikipedia entry), Freedom of the Printing Press Act 1766 and contemporary law and practice re freedom of information laws
- User:Theleftorium
- User:tetraedycal
- Ripswitched
- Swedense Editor at Sweden's official website, Sweden.se, very interested in improving the information about Sweden on Wikipedia
- duanedonecker (talk) (military history)
- tartesauxpommes (interested in history and economic history)
- SKV International1 Taxation in Sweden Tax information to foreign companies active in Sweden, International taxation
- User:Norvegia suecica - Early history, medieval period and earlier.
- Pitchuthepitebull
- Pafcool2 - particular interest in culture and mainly music
- Lothar von Richthofen: Historical/linguistic topics primarily, able to translate (though rather slowly).
- RicJac
- Pikkusiili
- IRISZOOM
- miningpyropony General knowledge #salute#
- user:Science.Warrior
- KorinoChikara
- Arbero
- Stamboliyski – Mainly archaeology, history, and obscure politics.
- Dan Koehl - mainly zoos, history, medevial families.
- Script error: No such module "user". – Swedish culture and language. I'm more than happy to help with copyediting!
- Script error: No such module "user". - General knowledge of language and Swedish subjects.
- Script error: No such module "user". - SHL, HockeyAllsvenskan and Hockeyettan (players, coaches, teams, venues, and seasons,).
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- User:Reallyjack
- Script error: No such module "user". - History, military, crime, politics
- Script error: No such module "user". - Geography,History
- Script error: No such module "user". – mainly interested in the Viking Age
- Trialpears - Currently editing Education in Sweden
- Script error: No such module "user". 22:02:32, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
- Script error: No such module "user". 13:30:16, 7 February 2020 (UTC) - focused on citizen science in Sweden - medborgarforskning
- Script error: No such module "user". 03:53:09, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
- Script error: No such module "user". 17:03:20, 15 September 2020 (UTC) - economic history and various subjects
- Script error: No such module "user". Modern Art, Småland, Swedish Glass, Professional Translation, Religion
- Script error: No such module "user". History, culture
- Script error: No such module "user". Geography, sports. A native Swede that can also help with translation
- Script error: No such module "user". 10:57:10, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
- Script error: No such module "user". 15:10:15, 22 January 2021 (UTC) Västerbotten country, Vännäs kommun, Umeå.
- Script error: No such module "user". - Areas that interest me
- Script error: No such module "user". 01:12:16, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
- Script error: No such module "user". 18:03:21, 23 October 2021 (UTC) - Anything
- Script error: No such module "user". Swedish Royal history Vasa, Holstein-Gottorp, or Bernadotte history
- Script error: No such module "user". Orienteering, standardisation, jazz music and personal data empowerment--Ahi-nama (talk) 13:26, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
- Script error: No such module "user". 24 August 2022 Hälsingland aficionado
- Script error: No such module "user". 12:56:16, 6 September 2022 (UTC) - Just about everything but especially rail infrastructure, Swedish nature, food, and Swedish folk music
- Script error: No such module "user". 18:57:40, 29 October 2022 (UTC) Orienteering, transportation, Uppsala & Uppland,
- Script error: No such module "user". 15:06:20, 14 February 2023 (UTC) Malmö and Halmstad
- Script error: No such module "user". Working on Swedish classical composers, e.g., Larsson, Wirén, Stenhammar, maybe Atterberg in the future.
- Script error: No such module "user". Football (especially Allsvenskan && IFK Norrköping), sport, culture, transliterating (names), politics.
- Script error: No such module "user". Swedish musicians and bands including, but not limited to, melodic death metal and metalcore genres.
- Script error: No such module "user". – Mostly language, culture, geography & random other tidbits
- Script error: No such module "user". Ornithology, Politics, History and Religion
- Script error: No such module "user". - Largely Swedish historical and biographical articles
- Script error: No such module "user". 11:54:55, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
- Script error: No such module "user". – Largely military and political history
- Script error: No such module "user". 20:55:49, 24 January 2025 (UTC) Translation, Swedish history and other areas.
- Script error: No such module "user". 14:27:56, 26 April 2025 (UTC) Swedish culture, history, flora and fauna.
- Script error: No such module "user". 01:32:28, 29 April 2025 (UTC) - mostly media (TV, film, music), a bit of politics / history
- Script error: No such module "user". 17:40:15, 29 April 2025 (UTC) Swedish history, biography, genealogy
- Script error: No such module "user". 07:30:15, 12 May 2025 (UTC) Swedish geography, biography
- Dualpendel (talk) 20:02, 28 May 2025 (UTC) ; currently coordinates for articles
- Svampesky (talk) 20:21, 5 June 2025 (UTC)
Former members
Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.
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Member identification
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Article management
General advice
- What you can do
- Add relevant and necessary facts.
- Add relevant and necessary references.
- Balance NPOV by removing spectacular but on the whole irrelevant material.
- Images. All articles should have relevant illustrations if possible. Look through the interwikis, or browse through Commons.
- Copyedit. Many articles need a fair deal of copyediting:
- Make sure the Lead section is up to standards.
- Integrate "trivia"-sections into the text
- Clean up Swenglish
Quality assessor
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- Template:Icon: The article is listed as a Good article
- Template:Icon: The article is listed as a Featured article.
General
Geography
- Regions
- Cities
- Falun
- Gothenburg
- Helsingborg
- Jönköping
- Karlskrona
- Karlstad
- Kiruna
- Linköping
- Luleå
- Lund
- Malmö
- Norrköping
- Örebro
- Sigtuna
- Stockholm
- Uppsala
- Umeå
- Visby
- Västerås
- Islands
- Waters
History
- History of Sweden
- 1975 Occupation of the West German embassy
- Ådalen shootings
- Consolidation of Sweden
- Early Swedish history
- Enlightened Absolute Monarchy in Sweden
- Early Vasa era
- Industrialization of Sweden
- Post-war Sweden
- Prehistoric Sweden
- Rise of Sweden as a Great Power
- Suiones
- Swedish Empire
- Sweden after the Great Northern War
- Sweden and the Winter War
- Sweden during late 19th century
- Sweden during World War II
- Template:Icon Swedish allotment system
- Template:Icon Swedish emigration to the United States
- Union between Sweden and Norway
- Assassination of Olof Palme
- Wars
Religion
- Religion in Sweden
- Archbishop of Uppsala
- Birgitta of Sweden
- Church of Sweden
- Emanuel Swedenborg
- Laurentius Petri
- Lund Cathedral
- Nathan Söderblom
- Olaus Petri
- Riddarholmskyrkan
- Storkyrkan
- Uppsala Cathedral
Education
- Education in Sweden
- Chalmers University of Technology
- Gothenburg University
- Karolinska Institutet
- Lund University
- Royal Institute of Technology
- Uppsala University
- Stockholm University
Royalty
- Monarch of Sweden
- Adolf Frederick of Sweden
- Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
- Charles VIII of Sweden
- Charles IX of Sweden
- Charles X Gustav of Sweden
- Charles XI of Sweden Template:Icon
- Charles XII of Sweden
- Charles XIII of Sweden
- Charles XIV John of Sweden
- Charles XV of Sweden
- Christina of Sweden
- Eric XIV of Sweden
- Eric of Pomerania
- Frederick I of Sweden
- Gustavus Adolphus
- Gustav I of Sweden (Vasa)
- Gustav III of Sweden
- Gustaf V of Sweden
- Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden
- John III of Sweden
- Oscar I of Sweden
- Oscar II of Sweden
- Sigismund III Vasa
- Sten Sture the Elder
- Queen Silvia of Sweden
- Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden
- Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
Politics, foreign relations and diplomacy
Parties in the Riksdag
- Centre Party (Sweden)
- Christian Democrats (Sweden)
- Green Party (Sweden)
- Left Party (Sweden)
- Liberal People's Party (Sweden)
- Moderate Party
- Sweden Democrats
- Swedish Social Democratic Party
Prime ministers
- Prime Minister of Sweden
- Carl Bildt
- Fredrik Reinfeldt Template:Icon
- Göran Persson
- Ingvar Carlsson
- Olof Palme
- Per Albin Hansson
- Tage Erlander
- Thorbjörn Fälldin
Other people
- Anna Lindh
- Axel Oxenstierna
- Birger Jarl
- Dag Hammarskjöld
- Erik Dahlberg
- Folke Bernadotte
- Hans Blix
- Raoul Wallenberg Template:Icon
Misc.
- Alliance for Sweden
- Constitution of Sweden
- Foreign relations of Sweden
- Parliament of Sweden
- Riksdag
- Swedish neutrality
- Swedish welfare
Arts, culture, literature
- Buildings
- Drottningholm Palace
- Globen
- Gripsholm Castle
- Moderna Museet
- Oresund Bridge
- Royal Swedish Library
- Royal Swedish Opera
- Swedish National Museum of Fine Arts
- Swedish Royal Library
- Turning Torso
- Uppsala Cathedral Template:Icon
- Cinema
- Cinema of Sweden
- Dolph Lundgren
- Greta Garbo
- Ingmar Bergman
- Ingrid Bergman
- Lasse Hallström
- Lukas Moodysson
- Max von Sydow
- Stellan Skarsgård
- Sven Nykvist
- Vilgot Sjöman
- Culture heritage
(if not listed elsewhere)
- Literature
- Swedish literature
- August Strindberg
- Astrid Lindgren
- Eyvind Johnson
- Frans Gunnar Bengtsson
- Harry Martinson
- Henning Mankell
- Hjalmar Söderberg
- Jan Guillou
- Johan Henric Kellgren
- Karin Boye
- Liza Marklund
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- Pär Lagerkvist
- Selma Lagerlöf
- Sjöwall and Wahlöö
- Swedish Academy
- Vilhelm Moberg
- Music
- Carl Michael Bellman
- Du gamla, Du fria
- Europe (band)
- In Flames
- Jenny Lind
- Jussi Björling
- Kent (band)
- Max Martin
- Melodifestivalen Template:Icon
- Robyn
- Roxette
- Evert Taube
- Art
- Fashion
- Other
- Carl Milles
- Flag of Sweden
- East Indiaman Götheborg
- Midsummer
- St. Lucia Day
- Swedish language Template:Icon
- Swedish Chef
- Cuisine of Sweden
Economy
State
Corporations
- Asea Brown Boveri
- Assa Abloy
- Ericsson
- Electrolux
- H&M
- IKEA
- Investor AB
- Nordea
- Saab
- SCA
- Scania AB
- Securitas AB
- SKF
- Sony Ericsson
- Swedish Match
- Volvo
Misc
Science
- List of Swedish scientists
- Anders Jonas Ångström
- Alfred Nobel
- Arvid Carlsson
- Anders Celsius
- Arne Bjerhammar
- Carl Wilhelm Scheele
- Carl Linnaeus
- Göran Kropp
- John Ericsson
- Nobel Prize Template:Icon
- Lars Magnus Ericsson
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Svante Arrhenius
Sports
- Sport in Sweden
- 1912 Summer Olympics
- Annika Sörenstam Template:Icon
- Björn Borg
- Carolina Klüft
- Freddie Ljungberg
- Frölunda HC
- Gunde Svan
- Henrik Larsson
- IFK Göteborg Template:Icon
- Ingmar Stenmark
- Ingemar Johansson
- Jan-Ove Waldner
- Kenny Bräck
- Markus Näslund
- Martin Dahlin
- Mats Sundin
- Mats Wilander
- Mikael Ljungberg
- Nicklas Lidström
- Nils Liedholm
- Pehr Henrik Ling
- Peter Forsberg
- Stefan Edberg
- Sven-Göran Eriksson
- Swedish Grand Prix
- Sweden national football team
- Sweden women's national football team
- Thomas Ravelli
- Vasaloppet
- Zlatan Ibrahimović
(Lists that might make Featured lists as per criteria)
- List of members of the Riksdag, 2002-2006 (current FLC)
- List of members of the Riksdag, 2006-2010
- List of Swedish monarchs
- List of Swedish companies
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Nobel Peace Prize
- Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Other ".. in/of Sweden"
- Alcoholic beverages in Sweden
- Crime in Sweden
- Demographics of Sweden
- Education in Sweden
- Swedish heraldry Template:Icon
- Media in Sweden
- National holiday of Sweden
- Swedish people
- Transport in Sweden
- Tourism in Sweden
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Template:Icon Featured articles
- Allotment system
- Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition
- Battle of Svolder
- Daniel Sedin
- Greece runestones
- Harriet Bosse
- Henrik Sedin
- Henry (bishop of Finland)
- IFK Göteborg
- Malmö FF
- Melodifestivalen
- Meshuggah
- Opeth
- Swedish emigration to the United States
- Swedish language
- Vasa (ship)
Template:Icon Featured lists
- Basshunter discography
- Basshunter videography
- Crafoord Prize
- In Flames discography
- List of female Nobel laureates
- List of Frölunda HC players selected in the NHL Entry Draft
- List of Frölunda HC seasons
- List of municipalities of Finland in which Finnish is not the sole official language
- List of national parks of Sweden
- List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates
- List of Nobel laureates
- List of Nobel laureates affiliated with Princeton University as alumni or faculty
- List of Nobel laureates affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis as alumni or faculty
- List of Nobel laureates affiliated with the City University of New York as alumni or faculty
- List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation
- List of Nobel laureates in Chemistry
- List of Nobel laureates in Literature
- List of Nobel laureates in Physics
- List of Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine
- List of Nobel Memorial Prize laureates in Economic Sciences
- List of songs recorded by Basshunter
- Meshuggah discography
- Opeth discography
Template:Icon Featured pictures
Template:Icon Good articles
- Alexander Edler
- Anna Bågenholm
- Basshunter
- Boden Fortress
- Body Talk Pt. 2
- Charles XI of Sweden
- Dancehall Queen (Robyn song)
- Dano-Swedish War (1658–1660)
- Fembot (song)
- Fest i hela huset
- Fredrik Reinfeldt
- HSwMS John Ericsson
- HSwMS Loke (1869)
- HSwMS Thordön (1865)
- HSwMS Tirfing (1866)
- Hang with Me
- Iore
- Jacob Josefson
- Jesper Blomqvist
- John Ericsson-class monitor
- Kronan (ship)
- Let the Right One In (film)
- Lina Leandersson
- Livonian War
- Markus Näslund
- Mattias Öhlund
- Midvinterblot
- Mikael Samuelsson
- Nobel Prize
- Old Tjikko
- Raoul Wallenberg
- Refugee controversy in Sjöbo
- Second Northern War
- Skåneland
- Swedish heraldry
- TouchWave
- Ursula and Sabina Eriksson
- Vädersolstavlan
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