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

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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. That was followed by 2nd Finno-Ugric wikiseminar in South-Estonia in 2015 and 3rd wikiseminar in Karelia (Russia) in 2016. 4th Finno-Ugric wikiseminar was held once again in South-Estonia in 2020.

Wikipedias

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Map of Finno-Ugric languages

There are 15 Wikipedia projects:

Language Articles Active users
Finnish (fi) 593,109 1,534
Hungarian (hu) 556,545 1,428
Estonian (et) 252,063 642
Eastern Mari (mhr) 11,336 15
Western Mari (mrj) 10,432 14
Northern Sami (se) 7,901 20
Erzya (myv) 7,871 15
Moksha (mdf) 7,292 15
Veps (vep) 7,001 21
Võro (fiu-vro) 6,777 24
Inari Sami (smn) 6,197 22
Udmurt (udm) 5,703 14
Komi (kv) 5,697 17
Livvi-Karelian (olo) 4,543 17
Komi-Permyak (koi) 3,469 11

There are 13 Wikipedias in incubator: Karelian (krl), Tornedalen Finnish (fit), Livonian (liv), Votic (vot), Kvensk (fkv), Southern Sami (sma), Nenets (yrk), Selkup (sel), Mansi (mns), Kildin Saam (sjd), Lule Sami (smj), Ingrian (izh), Khanty (kca).

Activities

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Past activities

Ongoing and future activities

Prior activities

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See also

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References

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