Finnish Wikipedia

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The Finnish Wikipedia is the edition of Wikipedia in the Finnish language. By article count, it is the 13th largest Wikipedia with more than 65,000 articles as of June 2006.

The Finnish language project was started in late 2002, but it remained at a very primitive stage until well into 2003. The speed of development picked up somewhat after the wiki software was upgraded to Phase III in late November, 2003, and continued to increase steadily through 2004. As of spring 2005, the project seems to be gaining momentum rapidly, most likely due to recent media exposure in Finland, and the gradually maturing content of the encyclopedia.

The relatively small number of articles is due to the small number of native Finnish speakers, virtually non-existent number of non-native Finnish speakers and the high number of the native speakers who are also fluent in English. However, the ratio of Finnish language Wikipedia articles to the number of Finnish speakers is quite high.

Milestones

• 65,000 articles - June 6, 2006
• 60,000 articles - May 1, 2006
• 50,000 articles - February 21, 2006
• 45,000 articles - January 11, 2006
• 40,000 articles - December 6, 2005
• 35,000 articles - October 15, 2005
• 30,000 articles - August 16, 2005
• 25,000 articles - June 27, 2005
• 20,000 articles - April 27, 2005
• 15,000 articles - February 9, 2005
• 10,000 articles - October 14, 2004
• 5,000 articles - April, 2004
• 1,000 articles - September, 2003

External link

• Finnish Wikipedia