Wikimedia Finno-Ugric Collaboration

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

Finno-Ugric flag designed by Polish Finno-Ugric linguist Szymon Pawlas

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 edit

 
Finno-Ugric meeting in 2015 in Estonia

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.

Wikipedias edit

 
Map of Finno-Ugric languages

There are 13 Wikipedia projects:

Language Articles Active users
Finnish (fi) 571,993 1,687
Hungarian (hu) 541,439 1,487
Estonian (et) 244,837 748
Western Mari (mrj) 10,432 10
Eastern Mari (mhr) 11,378 26
Northern Sami (se) 7,888 23
Võro (fiu-vro) 6,599 20
Veps (vep) 6,973 23
Komi (kv) 5,530 16
Udmurt (udm) 5,687 11
Komi-Permyak (koi) 3,461 12
Erzya (myv) 7,877 15
Moksha (mdf) 5,074 15

There are 8 Wikipedias in incubator: Ingrian (izh), Khanty (kca), Karelian (krl), Livonian (liv), Mansi (mns), Kildin Saam (sjd), Ter Saam (sjt), Votic (vot)

Activities edit

Past activities

Ongoing and future activities

Prior activities edit

See also edit

Meta page for Wikipedias in the languages of Russia project.

References edit