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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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

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Map of Finno-Ugric languages

There are 13 Wikipedia projects:

Language Articles Active users
Finnish (fi) 580,921 1,536
Hungarian (hu) 547,798 1,438
Estonian (et) 247,752 498
Western Mari (mrj) 10,433 11
Eastern Mari (mhr) 11,361 15
Northern Sami (se) 7,892 23
Võro (fiu-vro) 6,703 16
Veps (vep) 6,985 23
Komi (kv) 5,533 14
Udmurt (udm) 5,716 20
Komi-Permyak (koi) 3,466 11
Erzya (myv) 7,877 18
Moksha (mdf) 6,716 20

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

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Past activities

Ongoing and future activities

Prior activities

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See also

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Meta page for Wikipedias in the languages of Russia project.

References

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