Finnish Wikipedia

Finnish Wikipedia

Screenshot The main page of the Finnish Wikipedia
Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Available in	Finnish
Headquarters	Miami, Florida
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
URL	fi.wikipedia.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional
Launched	September 9, 2002;22 years ago (2002-09-09)
Content license	Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies

The Finnish Wikipedia (Finnish : Suomenkielinen Wikipedia) is the edition of Wikipedia in the Finnish language. With 600,987 articles, it is currently the 27th-largest Wikipedia and the largest Wikipedia in a Uralic language. Wikipedia is the only encyclopedia in Finnish which is still updated. ^[1]

The Finnish language project was started on 9 September 2002, but it remained at a very primitive stage until well into 2003. The speed of development picked up somewhat after the MediaWiki software was upgraded to Phase III in late November 2003, and continued to increase steadily through 2004.

In 2013, the reliability of the Finnish Wikipedia was investigated by the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat . The researchers used experts to evaluate quality of randomly selected 134 articles and found that 70% of the articles scored well for accuracy. ^{[1] [2]}

Milestones

• 600,000 articles – 11 August 2025
• 500,000 articles – 28 December 2020
• 450,000 articles – 12 January 2019
• 400,000 articles – 29 August 2016
• 350,000 articles – 9 July 2014
• 300,000 articles – 26 June 2012
• 250,000 articles – 24 September 2010
• 200,000 articles – 12 April 2009
• 150,000 articles – 4 February 2008
• 100,000 articles – 11 February 2007
• 50,000 articles – 21 February 2006
• 15,000 articles – 9 February 2005
• 5,000 articles – 15 April 2004
• 1,000 articles – September 2002

Gallery

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  Finnish Wikipedia's 400,000 article logo (29 August 2016)
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  Oldest article that has survived. It's about Finnish town Kaskinen.

References

1. Koistinen, Olavi (5 December 2013). "World's largest study on Wikipedia: Better than its reputation". Helsingin Sanomat . Retrieved 9 December 2013.
2. Koistinen, Olavi (30 November 2013). "HS selvitti: Näin luotettava Wikipedia on" (in Finnish). Helsingin Sanomat . Retrieved 9 December 2013.

External links

• Media related to Finnish Wikipedia at Wikimedia Commons
• (in Finnish) Finnish Wikipedia
• (in Finnish) Finnish Wikipedia mobile version
• Report from the Finnish Wikipedia, from Wikipedia Signpost (in English Wikipedia), October 23, 2006.