Finnish Wikipedia

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The main page of the Finnish Wikipedia
The main page of the Finnish Wikipedia
Website type
Internet encyclopedia project
Available inFinnish
HeadquartersMiami, Florida
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
Websitefi.wikipedia.org Edit this at Wikidata
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Launched9 September 2002; 24 years ago (2002-09-09)
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The Finnish Wikipedia (Finnish: Suomenkielinen Wikipedia) is the edition of Wikipedia in the Finnish language. With 627,523 articles, it is currently the 29th-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. The researchers used experts to evaluate quality of randomly selected 134 articles and found that 70% of the articles scored well for accuracy.

In 2026, Finnish Wikipedia contributors received the State Award for Public Information for "their long-term and communal work in building and maintaining open knowledge" on Finnish Wikipedia as well as on Swedish, Inari Sámi and Northern Sámi Wikipedias. The prize of €20,000 was presented to Wikimedia Suomi, a local Wikimedia chapter.

Milestones

References

  1. 1 2 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.
  3. ↑ "State Award for Public Information conferred to seven contributors to community-relevant information". Finnish Government. 8 June 2026. Retrieved 28 June 2026.
  4. ↑ Korhonen, Suvi (9 June 2026). "'Monet olisivat pulassa ilman' – Suomalaiset Wikipedian kirjoittajat saivat valtion korkeimman palkinnon". Tivi (in Finnish). Retrieved 28 June 2026.