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

 
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

 
Map of Finno-Ugric languages

There are 13 Wikipedia projects:

Language Articles Active users
Finnish (fi) 573,162 1,597
Hungarian (hu) 542,170 1,525
Estonian (et) 245,224 733
Western Mari (mrj) 10,432 4
Eastern Mari (mhr) 11,391 14
Northern Sami (se) 7,888 18
Võro (fiu-vro) 6,619 33
Veps (vep) 6,975 17
Komi (kv) 5,530 12
Udmurt (udm) 5,689 14
Komi-Permyak (koi) 3,461 7
Erzya (myv) 7,878 12
Moksha (mdf) 5,222 10

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

Past activities

Ongoing and future activities

Prior activities

See also

Meta page for Wikipedias in the languages of Russia project.

References