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Wikimedia Finno-Ugric Collaboration

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Wikimedia Finno-Ugric Collaboration is a partnership among communities working on Wikimedia projects in Finno-Ugric languages.

The main goals of the collaborative are:

  1. to support each other through sharing and learning;
  2. to support growth of all Wikimedia projects in these languages;
  3. to increase and improve information available about Finno-Ugric cultures and peoples in Wikimedia projects in other languages.

Background

Wikimedia Finno-Ugric Collaboration was initiated on organizational level in year 2011 by Wikimedia Eesti together with local Finno-Ugric organizations (e.g. NPO Fenno-Ugria) with an aim to provide better support for Finno-Ugric Wikimedia projects and their communities. Soon discussions continued with the participation of Wikimédia Magyarország [1] and idea to organize Seminar for Finno-Ugric Wikipedias was born. The first seminar took place from 22nd−24th of August 2014 in Estonia. That was followed by 2nd Finno-Ugric wikiseminar in South-Estonia in 2015 and 3rd wikiseminar in Karelia (Russia) in 2016. 4th Finno-Ugric wikiseminar was held once again in South-Estonia in 2020.

Wikipedias

Map of Finno-Ugric languages
Map of Finno-Ugric languages

There are 15 Wikipedia projects:

Language Articles Active users
Finnish (fi) 588,302 1,652
Hungarian (hu) 553,760 1,656
Estonian (et) 250,629 611
Eastern Mari (mhr) 11,332 20
Western Mari (mrj) 10,432 14
Northern Sami (se) 7,897 21
Erzya (myv) 7,870 15
Moksha (mdf) 7,133 21
Veps (vep) 7,000 19
Võro (fiu-vro) 6,750 16
Inari Sami (smn) 6,080 28
Udmurt (udm) 5,703 15
Komi (kv) 5,663 21
Livvi-Karelian (olo) 4,501 12
Komi-Permyak (koi) 3,468 16

There are 13 Wikipedias in incubator: Karelian (krl), Tornedalen Finnish (fit), Livonian (liv), Votic (vot), Kvensk (fkv), Southern Sami (sma), Nenets (yrk), Selkup (sel), Mansi (mns), Kildin Saam (sjd), Lule Sami (smj), Ingrian (izh), Khanty (kca).

Activities

Past activities

Ongoing and future activities

Prior activities

See also

References