Wikipedia, a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers known as Wikipedians, began with its first edit on 15 January 2001, two days after the domain was registered. It grew out of Nupedia, a more structured free encyclopedia, as a way to allow easier and faster drafting of articles and translations.
Helsingin Sanomat, abbreviated HS and colloquially known as Hesari, is the largest subscription newspaper in Finland and the Nordic countries, owned by Sanoma. Except after certain holidays, it is published daily. Its name derives from that of the Finnish capital, Helsinki, where it is published. It is considered a newspaper of record for Finland.
Ilta-Sanomat is one of Finland's two prominent tabloid size evening newspapers and the second largest paper in the country. Its counterpart and biggest rival is Iltalehti.
Estonia is a relatively safe country, and the risk of being a victim of crime in Estonia is small by international standards. As in other post-Soviet states, crime has increased in the 1990s, but then it has gradually decreased in the 21st century.
The Dutch Wikipedia is the Dutch-language edition of the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. It was founded on 19 June 2001.
The Romanian Wikipedia is the Romanian language edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Started on 12 July 2003, as of 30 June 2024 this edition has 454,392 articles and is the 32nd largest Wikipedia edition. In December 2004, users on the Romanian Wikipedia started to talk about founding a local chapter of Wikimedia, Asociația Wikimedia România.
There are two Norwegian language editions of Wikipedia: one for articles written in Bokmål or Riksmål, and one for articles written in Nynorsk or Høgnorsk. There are currently 632,325 articles on the Norwegian Wikipedia edition in Bokmål/Riksmål, and 169,937 articles on the Nynorsk edition.
The Ukrainian Wikipedia is the Ukrainian language edition of the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. The first article was written on January 30, 2004. As of June 2024, the Ukrainian Wikipedia has 1,331,943 articles and is the 14th largest Wikipedia edition.
Persian Wikipedia is the Persian language version of Wikipedia. The Persian version of Wikipedia was started in December 2003. As of June 2024, it has 1,006,305 articles, 1,322,018 registered users, and 91,153 files, and it is the 19th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 22nd in terms of depth among Wikipedias. It passed 1,000 articles on December 16, 2004, and 200,000 on July 10, 2012. Roozbeh Pournader is the project's first administrator, developer, and bureaucrat.
The Indonesian Wikipedia is the edition of Wikipedia in the Indonesian language. The Indonesian Wikipedia is the fifth-fastest-growing Wikipedia in an Asian language after the Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Turkish language Wikipedias. It ranks 25th in terms of depth among Wikipedias. Its first article was written on 30 May 2003, yet its Main Page was created six months later on 29 November 2003.
Finland has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 57 times since its debut in 1961. Finland won the contest for the first – and to date only – time in 2006 with Lordi and their song "Hard Rock Hallelujah". The country's best result before then was achieved by Marion Rung with the song "Tom Tom Tom" in 1973, which placed sixth.
The Korean Wikipedia is the Korean language edition of Wikipedia. It was founded on 11 October 2002 and reached ten thousand articles on 4 June 2005. As of June 2024, it is the 23rd largest Wikipedia, with 674,330 articles and 1,864 active users.
The Estonian Wikipedia is the Estonian version of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, started on 24 August 2002. As of June 2024, the edition has about 246,000 articles.
The Hungarian Wikipedia is the Hungarian/Magyar version of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Started on 8 July 2003, this version reached the 300,000-article milestone in May 2015. The 500,000th article was born on 16 February 2022. As of 30 June 2024, this edition has 543,154 articles and is the 29th largest Wikipedia edition.
The Vietnamese Wikipedia is the Vietnamese-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, publicly editable, online encyclopedia supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Like the rest of Wikipedia, its content is created and accessed using the MediaWiki wiki software.
Helsinki Times is the first English-language daily online newspaper in Finland providing domestic and international news for the country's English-speaking readers. A weekly printed edition was issued between 2007 and 2015.
The Spanish Wikipedia is a Spanish-language edition of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia. It has 1,963,407 articles. Started in May 2001, it reached 100,000 articles on March 8, 2006, and 1,000,000 articles on May 16, 2013. It is the 8th-largest Wikipedia as measured by the number of articles and has the 4th-most edits. It also ranks 12th in terms of article depth among Wikipedias.
Olavi Tapio Hänninen was a Finnish designer and interior architect.
The Eino Leino Prize is an annual prize award to top writers in Finland since 1956, with particular emphasis on poets.
The Cebuano Wikipedia is the Cebuano-language edition of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. Despite being the second-largest Wikipedia in numbers of articles, it has a small community of only 137 active users; nearly all of the 6,117,210 articles were initially created through automatic programs, most notably Sverker Johansson's Lsjbot.
