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 579,000 articles as of August 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
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
Finnish Wikipedia's 400,000 article logo (29 August 2016)
Oldest article that has survived
References
^"List of Wikipedias". meta.wikimedia.org. Wikimedia Foundation. 5 November 2016. Retrieved 1 September 2019.