Wikimedia Finno-Ugric Collaboration

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

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.

Finno-ugric wikiseminar 2014 in Estonia
Finno-ugric wikiseminar 2015 in Estonia
Finno-ugric wikiseminar 2016 in Karelia
Finno-ugric wikiseminar 2020 in Estonia

Wikipedias

There are 15 Wikipedia projects:

Language	Articles	Active users
Finnish (fi)	607,435	3,562
Hungarian (hu)	562,897	1,373
Estonian (et)	255,761	1,245
Eastern Mari (mhr)	11,327	32
Western Mari (mrj)	10,429	18
Northern Sami (se)	7,904	33
Erzya (myv)	7,867	24
Moksha (mdf)	7,611	21
Veps (vep)	7,067	29
Võro (fiu-vro)	6,851	34
Inari Sami (smn)	6,485	31
Udmurt (udm)	5,715	28
Komi (kv)	5,729	31
Livvi-Karelian (olo)	4,634	30
Komi-Permyak (koi)	3,468	16