The Estonian Wikipedia ( et, Eestikeelne Vikipeedia) is the Estonian version 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 ...

, the free encyclopedia, started on 24 August 2002. As of , the edition has about articles. On 7 December 2008 Estonian Wikipedian

Andres Luure Andres Luure (born 22 May 1959, in Tallinn) is an Estonian philosopher and translator, and a researcher at Tallinn University. Luure graduated from the Moscow State University in 1983, majoring in mathematics. In 1998, he successfully defended ...

was one of fifteen individuals recognized for volunteerism in

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

for 2008. In 2013 he received Order of the White Star for his contributions to Wikipedia. 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. As of February 2021, it was the most visited language Wikipedia in

. It ranked before the Russian Wikipedia and the

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Statistics

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. 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

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and Hungarian Wikipedias. 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. 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.http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_speakers_per_article List of Wikipedias by Speakers per Article As of , the edition has active contributors and administrators. The overwhelming majority of its edits originate from

, while a minority of contributions come from neighboring Northern European countries, which account for most of the remaining share of editors.

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Local community

The first meeting for local Wikipedians was held in 2007."ETV: Vikipeedia administraatorid said esmakordselt kokku"
Postimees, 16 December 2007 The Estonian Wikimedia chapter named Wikimedia Eesti was founded in 2010 to support Estonian Wikipedia. Vikipeedia suvepäevad Viki külas.JPG, First summer meetup for Estonian Wikipedians ( Viki village, 2009) Finno-ugric wikiseminar 2014 participants.jpg, First Finno-ugric wikiseminar in 2014 Vikipedistide pildiretk Osmussaarele 2015.jpg, Photomeetup in

Osmussaar Osmussaar ( sv, Odensholm, german: Odinsholm) is an Estonian island situated in the mouth of the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea, 7.5 km off the Estonian mainland. Administratively the island is part of Lääne-Nigula Parish in Lään ...

, 2015 Estonian Wikipedia summer days 2021 group photo.jpg, Estonian Wikipedia summer days 2021

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