Finnish Wikipedia

The Finnish Wikipedia (Suomenkielinen Wikipedia) is the edition of Wikipedia in the Finnish language. By article count, it is the largest Wikipedia with about 0 articles as of July 2024. Wikipedia is the only encyclopedia in Finnish which is still updated.

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 MediaWiki software was upgraded to Phase III in late November 2003, and continued to increase steadily through 2004.

In 2013, the reliability of the Finnish Wikipedia was investigated by the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. The researchers used experts to evaluate quality of randomly selected 134 articles and found that 70% of the articles scored well for accuracy.

Milestones

 * 500,000 articles – 28 December 2020
 * 450,000 articles – 12 January 2019
 * 400,000 articles – 29 August 2016
 * 350,000 articles – 9 July 2014
 * 300,000 articles – 26 June 2012
 * 250,000 articles – 24 September 2010
 * 200,000 articles – 12 April 2009
 * 150,000 articles – 4 February 2008
 * 100,000 articles – 11 February 2007
 * 50,000 articles – 21 February 2006
 * 15,000 articles – 9 February 2005
 * 5,000 articles – 15 April 2004
 * 1,000 articles – September 2002