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The main page of the Finnish Wikipedia
Type of site
Internet encyclopedia project
Available inFinnish
HeadquartersMiami, Florida
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
URLfi.wikipedia.org Edit this at Wikidata
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
Launched2002; 22 years ago (2002)

The Finnish Wikipedia (Finnish: Suomenkielinen Wikipedia) is the edition of Wikipedia in the Finnish language. By article count, it is the 27th largest Wikipedia with about 582,000 articles as of October 2024.[1] Wikipedia is the only encyclopedia in Finnish which is still updated.[2]

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. The researchers used experts to evaluate quality of randomly selected 134 articles and found that 70% of the articles scored well for accuracy.[2][3]

Milestones

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  • 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
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References

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  1. ^ "List of Wikipedias". meta.wikimedia.org. Wikimedia Foundation. 5 November 2016. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  2. ^ a b Koistinen, Olavi (5 December 2013). "World's largest study on Wikipedia: Better than its reputation". Helsingin Sanomat. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
  3. ^ Koistinen, Olavi (30 November 2013). "HS selvitti: Näin luotettava Wikipedia on" (in Finnish). Helsingin Sanomat. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
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