Draft:Linus Tolke

Per Eskil Linus Tolke, born 15 January 1966, is a Swedish systems architect.

Linus Tolke studied at the Institute of Technology at Linköping University 1985–1994. At university, he was active in its academic computer club Lysator. An association which created "Spinner", the first Swedish website in 1993.

In 1991, Linus Tolke created SvenskMud, a Swedish version of the text-based multiplayer real-time virtual world Multi-user dungeon.

In early 2001, subsequent to the founding of the original Wikipedia in English, Linus Tolke was in e-mail contact with Wikipedia's co-founder Jimmy Wales about a possible Swedish language version. Swedish Wikipedia went online on sv.wikipedia.com 23 May 2001 as Wikipedia's 4th language version. The initial prototype "Phase I" UseModWiki software for sv.wikipedia.com was translated in May 2001 by Linus Tolke, before the contemporary "Phase III" MediaWiki for sv.wikipedia.org went online in November 2002.

Tolke has also been active as an amateur radio operator.

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 * Swedish Wikipedia