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:

to support each other through sharing and learning;
to support growth of all Wikimedia projects in these languages;
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)	584,443	1,556
Hungarian (hu)	550,750	1,417
Estonian (et)	249,305	590
Western Mari (mrj)	10,431	18
Eastern Mari (mhr)	11,331	22
Northern Sami (se)	7,894	25
Võro (fiu-vro)	6,733	36
Veps (vep)	6,985	25
Komi (kv)	5,546	22
Udmurt (udm)	5,703	26
Komi-Permyak (koi)	3,468	19
Erzya (myv)	7,868	23
Moksha (mdf)	6,949	27