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The Estonian Wikipedia (Estonian: Eestikeelne Vikipeedia) is the Estonian version of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, started on 24 August 2002. As of 6 April 2025, it has 251,715 articles and is the 46th-largest Wikipedia.
On 7 December 2008 Estonian Wikipedian Andres Luure was one of fifteen individuals recognized for volunteerism in Estonia for 2008.[1] In 2013 he received Order of the White Star for his contributions to Wikipedia.[2]
The first article competition was held in spring 2009 and first photo competition in summer 2010. Since then those kinds of competitions have been common in Estonian Wikipedia.[3]
As of August 2012, The Estonian Wikipedia has the 3rd greatest number of articles per speaker among Wikipedias with over 100,000 articles, and ranks 10th overall.[7] These figures were based on Ethnologue's estimate of 1,048,660 Estonian speakers.
The Estonian Wikipedia is the 41st edition to reach the milestone of 100,000 articles and the third edition in a Uralic language to do so, after the Finnish and Hungarian Wikipedias.[8]
As of August 2012, the Estonian Wikipedia's number of articles accounts for approximately 23% of all the articles written in a Finno-Permic language, making it the second largest edition in the family after Finnish, which accounts for 70% of Finno-Permic articles.[9]
The Estonian Wikipedia has a relatively high percentage of administrators per regular active users (over 9%) compared to the Finnish Wikipedia, where only 2.5% of active users are administrators.[10] As of April2025, the edition has 603 active contributors and 34 administrators.[10]
The overwhelming majority of its edits originate from Estonia, while a minority of contributions come from neighboring Northern European countries, which account for most of the remaining share of editors.
Articles
Date
100
December 2002
500
September 2003
1,000
October 2003
5,000
July 2004
10,000
15 May 2005
15,000
12 February 2006
20,000
22 July 2006
25,000
30 October 2006
30,000
1 February 2007
35,000
12 May 2007
40,000
30 August 2007
45,000
23 January 2008
50,000
4 June 2008
55,000
19 October 2008
60,000
21 February 2009
65,000
15 July 2009
70,000
15 December 2009
75,000
18 May 2010
80,000
30 November 2010
85,000
1 June 2011
90,000
12 November 2011
95,000
30 March 2012
100,000
25 August 2012
105,000
6 January 2013
110,000
22 April 2013
115,000
7 September 2013
120,000
23 January 2014
200,000
12 August 2019
250,000
1 January 2025
Local community
The first meeting for local Wikipedians was held in 2007.[11]
The Estonian Wikimedia chapter named Wikimedia Eesti was founded in 2010 to support Estonian Wikipedia.
First summer meetup for Estonian Wikipedians (Viki village, 2009)
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