The Finnish Wikipedia ( fi, Suomenkielinen Wikipedia) is the edition of
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read refer ...
in the
Finnish language
Finnish ( endonym: or ) is a Uralic language of the Finnic branch, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedi ...
. By article count, it is the largest Wikipedia with about
articles
Article often refers to:
* Article (grammar), a grammatical element used to indicate definiteness or indefiniteness
* Article (publishing), a piece of nonfictional prose that is an independent part of a publication
Article may also refer to:
...
as of . Wikipedia is the only encyclopedia in Finnish which is still updated.
The Finnish language project was started in late 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
''Helsingin Sanomat'', abbreviated ''HS'' and colloquially known as , 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 o ...
''. The researchers used experts to evaluate quality of randomly selected 134 articles and found that 70% of the articles scored well for accuracy.
Milestones
* 500,000 articles - December 28, 2020
* 450,000 articles - January 12, 2019
* 400,000 articles - August 29, 2016
* 350,000 articles - July 9, 2014
* 300,000 articles - June 26, 2012
* 250,000 articles - September 24, 2010
* 200,000 articles - April 12, 2009
* 150,000 articles - February 4, 2008
* 100,000 articles - February 11, 2007
* 50,000 articles - February 21, 2006
* 15,000 articles - February 9, 2005
* 5,000 articles - April 15, 2004
* 1,000 articles - September, 2002
Gallery
File:Finnish Wikipedia 400 000 logo.png, Finnish Wikipedia's 400,000 article logo (29 August 2016)
File:Kaskinen vanha sivu.jpg, Oldest article that has survived
References
External links
*
Finnish Wikipedia*
Finnish Wikipedia mobile version*
Report from the Finnish Wikipedia, from Wikipedia ''Signpost'' (in
English Wikipedia
The English Wikipedia is, along with the Simple English Wikipedia, one of two English-language editions of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. It was founded on January 15, 2001, as Wikipedia's first edition, and, as of
, has the most arti ...
), 2006-10-23.
{{Wikipedias in Uralic languages
Finnish-language encyclopedias
Wikipedias by language
Internet properties established in 2002
Finnish-language websites
Finnish encyclopedias