The Finnish Wikipedia (Suomenkielinen Wikipedia) is the edition of Wikipedia in the Finnish language (called in Finnish: Suomenkielinen Wikipedia). By article count, it is the 17th largest Wikipedia with about 325,000 articles as of June 2013[1]
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.
Despite the small number of native Finnish speakers, virtually non-existent number of non-native Finnish speakers and the high number of the native speakers who are also fluent in English, the Finnish Wikipedia is currently the 17th largest Wikipedia with over 250,000 articles. The ratio of Finnish language Wikipedia articles to the number of Finnish speakers is the 16th-largest at 65 articles per 1000 speakers.[2] These figures were based on Ethnologue's estimate of 5,009,390 Finnish-speakers.
Accolades and controversies[edit]
As with many Wikipedias in other languages, the growing prominence in the media has mostly been with a positive slant (including an editorial from the Finnish newspaper of record Helsingin Sanomat which suggested that Time Magazine had missed a trick in not naming Wikipedia the Time Magazine Person of the Year), but inevitably there were some less edifying confrontations with the outside world as well. One major news-story involved a former government minister's article having been adjusted to a more flattering form by internet connections traced back to the computers of the Finnish Legislature. Another dispute was when a former VJ and current newspaper columnist made tabloid headline by asking the police to investigate if her article had contained something that was illegal. The situation was defused however, and the police declared that the complaint was far too vague to be actionable.
Milestones[edit]
- 300,000 articles - June 26, 2012
- 200,000 articles - April 12, 2009
- 100,000 articles - February 11, 2007
- 50,000 articles - February 21, 2006
- 15,000 articles - February 9, 2005
- 5,000 articles - April, 2004
- 1,000 articles - September, 2002
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