The user-generated wiki encyclopedia Wikipedia was launched in January 2001 by JimmyWales and Larry Sanger. Wikipedia has become the world’s largest wiki encyclopedia, andbehind many of its entries are interesting stories of creation, or ratherintercreation, sinceWikipedia is produced by a large number of contributors. Using the slogan “the free ency-clopedia that anyone can edit” (Wikipedia 2013),Wikipedia invites everyone to participate,but the participants do not necessarily represent all kinds of individuals or interests – theremight be an imbalance affecting the content as well as the perspective conveyed. As aphenomenon Wikipedia is quite complex, and can be studied from many different angels,for instance through the articles’ history and the edits to them.This paper is based on a study of Featured Articles from the Swedish Wikipedia. Threearticles,Fri vilja[Free will],Fjäll[Fell], andEdgar Allan Poe, are chosen from a list ofFeatured Articlesthat belongs to the subject fieldculture. The articles’ development hasbeen followed from their very first versions in 2003/2004 to edits made at the end of 2012.The aim is to examine the creation, orintercreation, processes of the articles, and thecollaborative production. The data come from non-article material such as revision historypages, article material, and some complementary statistics. Principally the study has aqualitative approach, but with some quantitative elements.
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