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.

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

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.

BackgroundEdit

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.

WikipediasEdit

There are 13 Wikipedia projects:

Language	Articles	Active users
Finnish (fi)	548,509	1,817
Hungarian (hu)	521,289	1,723
Estonian (et)	234,477	609
Western Mari (mrj)	10,427	14
Eastern Mari (mhr)	10,699	25
Northern Sami (se)	7,815	16
võro (fiu-vro)	6,415	16
Veps (vep)	6,751	20
Komi (kv)	5,499	24
Udmurt (udm)	5,526	21
Komi-Permyak (koi)	3,450	11
Erzya (myv)	7,777	18
Moksha (mdf)	2,748	15