Re: Swedish Week on Russian Wikipedia

Lars Aronsson wrote:

> Surprisingly long, Swedish has held the 10th place among the 

Odd enough, the last part of my post was removed from the archive, 
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-May/043035.html

Here comes the rest:

creating an article about the National holiday of Sweden, as well 
as 50 other new articles pertaining to Sweden.

>From a Swedish perspective, this isn't too bad.  To quote ABBA:
"I feel like I win, when I lose" (Waterloo, 1974).

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82:%D0%A8%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F/%D0%A8%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8F

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Википедия:Проект:Швеция/Шведская_неделя

The surrender of Sveaborg ([[Suomenlinna]]) fortress at Helsinki 
in 1808 and the [[battle of Poltava]] in the Ukraine in 1709 are 
the two most famous Swedish military losses to Russia.  A Russian 
expression for helplessness is "like a Swede at Poltava", but this 
is not at all how I feel today.

Still, I had hoped that this year's ice hockey championships, 
played in Quebec ([[2008 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships]]), 
would provide retaliation, but yesterday Sweden lost out at 4th 
place without medals and Russia is playing the final today against 
Canada in just a few hours.

It is surprising how well hockey-playing nations (Russia, Finland, 
Sweden, Norway, Canada, USA, Germany, Poland, Czech Replublic) are 
doing in Wikipedia.  Maybe this is what the Arabs should try.


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