The Finnish Wikipedia () is the edition of

Wikipedia Wikipedia is a free content, free Online content, online encyclopedia that is written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the wiki software MediaWiki. Founded by Jimmy Wales and La ...

in the

Finnish language Finnish (endonym: or ) is a Finnic languages, Finnic language of the Uralic languages, Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official langu ...

. With articles, it is currently the -largest Wikipedia and the largest Wikipedia in a Uralic language. Wikipedia is the only encyclopedia in Finnish which is still updated. 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 , 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 of the Finnish capital ...

''. 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 – 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

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. It's about Finnish town

Kaskinen Kaskinen (; ) is a town and island in Finland, located on the west coast of the country. Kaskinen is situated in Ostrobothnia, along the Gulf of Bothnia. The population of Kaskinen approximately , while the sub-region has a population of approxim ...

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Finnish Wikipedia mobile version
* Report from the Finnish Wikipedia, from Wikipedia ''Signpost'' (in

English Wikipedia The English Wikipedia is the primary English-language edition of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. It was created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on 15 January 2001, as Wikipedia's first edition. English Wikipedia is hosted alongside o ...

), October 23, 2006. {{Wikipedias in Uralic languages Finnish-language encyclopedias Wikipedias in Uralic languages Internet properties established in 2002 Finnish-language websites Finnish encyclopedias