Editing Susning.nu (section)

== History ==
Susning.nu was started on August 31, 2001, by Lars Aronsson and functioned as part of his personal website. It changed to Susning.nu on September 29, and was released on October 1. During October that year, Susning.nu was indexed by the bigger [[web search engine]]s, and the article collection firmly increased. In one year, Susning.nu grew with 10,000 articles, and more features were added. Among them were link [[statistics]] for all pages, and date searching which automatically generated dates and search [[Hyperlink|links]] in several languages. The first [[edit war]] broke out on July 31, 2002.

Susning used a heavily modified version of [[UseModWiki]] as its [[wiki software|wiki engine]]. Its domain name {{code|.nu}}, which belongs to the island of [[Niue]] in Oceania but which is sold primarily to foreigners, was chosen as a [[domain hack]], because ''nu'' means "[[wikt:now|now]]" in Swedish (as well as [[Danish language|Danish]] and [[Dutch language|Dutch]]). "''Skaffa dig en susning.nu''" was the [[slogan]] of Susning and translates to "''Get a clue.now''". (The standard [[top level domain]] for [[Sweden]] is {{code|.se}}.)

=== Issues with vandalism ===
A significant difference from the [[Swedish Wikipedia]] was that Susning did not have any voluntary [[Wikipedia administrators|administrators]] who could assist in blocking other users; the only person who could do that on Susning was Lars Aronsson. As Susning grew, the issue with [[Vandalism on Wikipedia|vandalism]] became bigger. In December 2003, Susning was affected by a vandal who had automatized their activity through a [[scripting language|script]]. In just a few minutes, thousands of articles were deleted. Several users were forced to spend hours restoring them. The issues increased even further with vandals who added [[pornography|pornographic]] images and made the site inaccessible. The issues with vandalism were practically going on daily. To aid removal and discovery of vandalism, a "[[karma]] system" was added on February 22, 2004. The system derailed fairly soon, as the karma only could decrease. Because of this, even the most established "susare" were affected by bad karma. The karma system was shut down on March 25, 2004.

As a last attempt at preventing vandalism, the ability to see images was shut down entirely on April 5, 2004. However, a couple of days later it was possible to add images from certain chosen [[domain name]]s. Due to a [[software bug|bug]] in the system, there were ways to evade this, which the vandals utilised. The bug was fixed on April 15, 2004, but a few minutes later that day, all editing on Susning.nu was shut down. Aronsson announced that the editing abilities would be shut down until a solution to the vandalism issues had been found, and that a [[password]] system would be imposed.

=== Demise and closure ===
After the imposing of the password lock, Susning became a significantly more inactive project, and a dozen users made almost all edits. In March 2004, before the password system was imposed, articles were saved approximately 36,000 times; by May, this had been reduced to 1,600 times. On May 11, 2004, editing on Susning.nu was temporarily opened for non-logged-in users, but after just 18 hours, vandalism had once again become such a big problem that non-logged-in editing was once again shut down. In March 2006, editing by non-logged-in users was opened on Sunday afternoons between 12:00–16:00. A year later, editing between 06:00–07:00 each day was enabled as well. Overall, this worked well but with a bit of vandalism.

In mid-2008, the website was affected by a persistent [[spam (electronic)|spammer]] who used [[proxy server]]s to spam different articles with English advertisement links. In April 2009, this forced Aronsson to remove the daily editing abilities between 06:00–07:00. The editing abilities during Sunday afternoons, however, continued to be open despite recurring spam attacks. By this time, very few users were still creating and editing articles on the website, which was shut down entirely in mid-August 2009; no reason for this was ever announced.