Wikipedia:WikiProject Estonia

Welcome to the WikiProject on Estonia!

It has come to the attention of several editors that Estonia is under-represented on the English Wikipedia. To join, please sign your name with four tildes ( ~ ) under the "Participants" section. Why not label yourself? Add a WikiProject Estonia userbox to your userpage.

Goals

 * 1) To create articles about notable Estonians, places in Estonia and other Estonia-related subjects.
 * 2) To expand Estonian stubs.
 * 3) To get as many Estonian articles as possible to Featured Status.

Participants
To join WikiProject Estonia, edit this section and add the Wikitext   with your areas of interest to the bottom of the following list of members. Members should also place member identification on their user page.
 * 1) Srose (talk)
 * 2) Avjoska 17:15, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Andres 21:36, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) Ohpuu 06:41, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) Rain74 22:00, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 6) biggins 00:45, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 7) Sorent 15:10, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 8) Lebatsnok 17:41, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 9) Constanz 11:37, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 10) Flying Saucer 18:39, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 11) Tanuman 14:18, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 12) Sander Säde 18:00, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 13) Yoosq 16:58, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 14) ChiLlBeserker 14:56, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 15) Suva 11:54, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 16) Digwuren 12:01, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 17) Termer 07:53, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 18) Alexia Death 09:40, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 19) Colchicum 11:37, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 20) Martintg 23:43, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 21) Staberinde 16:49, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 22)  Ban  Ray  16:05, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 23) Rushisawesome88 06:09, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 24) Erik Jesse 07:28, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 25) Tundern 04:45, 10 July 2007 (UTC) Tundern
 * 26) Canadian Bobby 19:05, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 27) Siim Vahtre 16:36, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 28) Lbunker 15:33, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 29) H2ppyme 19:43, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
 * 30) ExRat 04:34, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 31) Gruznov Mikhail 22:04, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 32) Nick mallory (talk) 11:35, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 33) Karabinier 18 January 2008 (UTC)
 * 34) Sea serpent 85 10:34, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 * 35) Erikupoeg (talk) 23:12, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 36)  Si xe st  15:47, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 37) Marek69 (talk) 23:16, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 38) RobKevHog (talk) 14:50, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 39) DJ Sturm (talk) 15:02, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 40) Alan Oldfield 17:15, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 41) Kyng (talk) 11:17, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
 * 42) Marty Rockatansky (talk) 21:32, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
 * 43) Gokulol2 (talk) 09:34, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 44) Andry2109 (talk) 15:45, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 45) Van der Hoorn (talk • contribs) 11:12, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 46) Quibik (talk) 13:34, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 47) MihkelKaru (talk) 10:54, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
 * 48) Dasanjos (talk) 15:50, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * 49) Pelmeen10 (talk) 14:04, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
 * 50) Vihelik (talk) 16:32, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
 * 51) P ЄTЄRS J V ЄСRUМВА  ►TALK 04:15, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
 * 52) Matu94 (talk) 0:12, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
 * 53) Alts (talk) 23:37, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
 * 54) Mpnagel (talk) 09:29, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
 * 55) Ahsoous (talk) 09:43, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
 * 56) Marcus Bowen 21:14, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
 * 57) Leedomargus (talk) 19:49, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
 * 58) Jeraphine Gryphon (talk) 09:16, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
 * 59) Morel (talk) 14:05, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
 * 60) pbl1998 10:31, 4 February 2012 2012 (UTC)
 * 61) JaanMatti 23:12, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
 * 62) ArlenCuss (talk) 10:18, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
 * 63) KKalve (talk) 20:39, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
 * 64) Yakikaki (talk) 19:47, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 65) Polten (talk) 22:59, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
 * 66) 7 January 2013
 * 67) Barrybounce (talk) 01:20, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
 * 68) KHarber KHarber- GBR 19:37, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
 * 69) Qhaleks (talk) 00:53, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 70) Hanibal911 (talk) 19:02, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
 * 71) IrishRhino (talk) 20:27, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * 72) Tommi.1988 (talk) 17:48, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
 * 73) LucSaffre (talk) 10:55, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
 * 74) Forfus24 (talk) 22:59, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
 * 75) Rim555 (talk) 19:05, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
 * 76) JaanJanesmae (talk) 18:43, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 77) Stackler (talk) 01:39, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
 * 78) Enedaniel 22:05, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 79) Elliot321 (talk) 00:53, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
 * 80) Vasemmistolainen (talk) 21:17, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
 * 81) WanderingTrad (talk) 11:33, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
 * 01:48:04, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
 * 1) Toomas (talk) 14:04, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
 * 14:43:30, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
 * 1) Estopedist1 (talk) 04:39, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
 * 07:22:38, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
 * 1)  09:59, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
 * 15:49:23, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
 * 1)  15:07:23, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
 * 2) nissele  /  contribs  / 10:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
 * 3) OctaviusSlockpit (talk) 17:01, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
 * 4) Icelilly (talk) 05:08, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
 * 5) TootsieRollsAddict   (talk)  02:44, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
 * 13:02:24, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
 * 14:55, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) Plingen Plungen (talk) 20:06, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
 * 2) EestiEnthusiast (talk) 01:43, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
 * 3) AverageEstoniaEnthusiast (talk) 09:18, 6 January 2023 (EST)
 * 08:36:58, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
 * 1) H.K.pauw (talk) 04:11, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Member identification
Members of WikiProject Estonia can place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page, which also adds them to .

For other Estonia user templates, see .

Tasks and Task Forces

 * Baltic states military history task force


 * Baltic cinema task force

General

 * 1) Label the talk pages of any articles about Estonian people and other Estonia-related articles with this template. See also assessment.
 * 2) Expand stub articles found in Category:Estonia stubs, Category:Estonian people stubs and Category:Estonia geography stubs.
 * 3) Copyedit Estonian articles.
 * 4) Wikify Estonian articles.
 * 5) Maintain Portal:Estonia.

Featured articles

 * [[Image:Cscr-featured.svg|14px]] Barn swallow

Good articles
As Haapsalu Castle just passed good article review, I noticed that it the only GA-class Estonian article (see Category:GA-Class Estonia articles). Come on, guys and gals, we can do better than that! How about trying to pass at least Estonia, Tallinn, Tartu and few others important Estonian articles through GA review (Bronze Soldier of Tallinn would be good as well, except there is way too much edit warring for GA). Ideally, we should try to get GA for all Category:Top-importance Estonia articles – and then attempt featured article on few best ones. – Sander Säde  05:52, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|14px]] Alatskivi Castle
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|14px]] August Kork
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|14px]] Battle of Narva (1944)
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|14px]] Elvy Kalep
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|14px]] Haapsalu Castle
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|14px]] Kõpu Lighthouse
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|14px]] Livonian War
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|14px]] Matsalu National Park
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|14px]] Oil shale in Estonia
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|14px]] Russian monitor Rusalka
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|14px]] Tallinn Offensive
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|14px]] Tartu Offensive
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|14px]] Welles Declaration

Did you know? (DYK)

 * Alar Toomre May 21, 2007
 * Estonian national awakening June 14, 2007
 * Holocaust trials in Soviet Estonia June 15, 2007
 * Soviet deportations from Estonia June 21, 2007
 * Estonia in World War II July 9, 2007
 * Estonian Ruhnu September 3, 2007
 * Kristjan Jaak Peterson September 6, 2007
 * Battle of Paju October 14, 2007
 * St. Nicholas' Church, Tallinn October 26, 2007
 * Jüri Vilms October 26, 2007
 * Varbola Stronghold October 29, 2007
 * Estonian Constituent Assembly November 1, 2007
 * Carl Axel Mothander November 16, 2007
 * Oeselians December 3, 2007
 * 90th Anniversary of the Estonian Republic February 23, 2008
 * Operation Priboi March 8, 2008
 * Endel Puusepp March 11, 2008
 * Cinema of Estonia August 31, 2008
 * Joakim Puhk October 6, 2008
 * Baltic Finns October 11, 2008
 * Põhja-Kõrvemaa Nature Reserve October 30, 2008
 * Oil shale in Estonia November 3, 2008
 * White Tights December 9, 2008
 * Eastern Bloc information dissemination March 21, 2009
 * Eastern Bloc economies March 28, 2009
 * Michael Sittow May 30, 2009
 * Human rights in Estonia June 16, 2009
 * Suur Tõll (icebreaker) January 5, 2012
 * Krenholm Manufacturing Company April 8, 2012
 * Marge Kõrkjas June 18, 2012
 * Estonian Sports Museum June 20, 2012
 * Riin Tamm December 29, 2012
 * Kirikuküla, Kaarma Parish February 15, 2013
 * 1 kroon coin (1934) February 20, 2013
 * Carl Timoleon von Neff February 23, 2013
 * Church of the Holy Ghost, Tallinn February 25, 2013
 * Stenbock House March 14, 2013
 * Ants Kurvits April 5, 2013
 * Karja church May 11, 2013
 * Supreme Court of Estonia December 27, 2013
 * Estonia under Swedish rule March 13, 2014
 * Tourism in Estonia October 24, 2021

New Wikipedia articles related to Estonia
Please feel free to list your new Estonia-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please), other editors should look and expand if necessary. Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a five day time limit from the creation of the article.

Missing articles and requests for articles

 * Bombing of Narva in World War II (et:Märtsipommitamine Narvas)
 * FA Tartu Kalev
 * Gun politics in Estonia
 * Holm Football Park
 * JK Narva Trans U21
 * JK Vall Tallinn
 * Karulaugu Spordikeskus
 * Keila Health Center
 * Laagri Stadium
 * Maarjamäe Stadium
 * Männiku Stadium
 * Rumori Calcio Tallinn
 * Sepa Jalgpallikeskus
 * Tabasalu Arena
 * Tallinna FC Zenit
 * TJK Legion U21
 * Võru Stadium

Lists needing expansion

 * List of basketball clubs in Estonia
 * List of bridges in Estonia (et)
 * List of canals of Estonia (et)
 * List of castles in Estonia (fix piped links)
 * List of cemeteries in Estonia
 * List of Christian monasteries in Estonia (et)
 * List of cinemas in Estonia (et)
 * List of Estonian flags
 * List of Estonian musicals
 * List of Estonian plays
 * List of Estonian radio programs
 * List of Estonian sportspeople (et)
 * List of Estonian television programs (et)
 * List of festivals in Estonia
 * List of football clubs in Estonia (active)
 * List of hotels in Estonia
 * List of ice hockey teams in Estonia
 * List of libraries in Estonia (et)
 * List of magazines in Estonia (et)
 * List of markets in Estonia
 * List of museums in Estonia (et)
 * List of musical groups from Estonia (et)
 * List of music festivals in Estonia (insufficient sources)
 * List of ports and harbours in Estonia (et)
 * List of publishing companies of Estonia (et)
 * List of radio stations in Estonia (et)
 * List of record labels from Estonia
 * List of restaurants in Estonia
 * List of squares in Estonia
 * List of streets in Tallinn (et)
 * List of summer manors in Estonia
 * List of theatres in Estonia
 * List of volleyball clubs in Estonia
 * List of wetlands of Estonia (et)

Templates
.
 * User WikiProject Estonia and WikiProject Estonia user – userboxes any member can add to their userpage.
 * WikiProject Estonia – the project banner, to be added to the talk pages of all relevant articles.
 * Et-welcome – For welcoming new users who might be interested in topics related to Estonia. Use.
 * WP Estonia invite – For inviting othe users to join the project. Use

Stub templates

 * All stub templates are added to the bottom of the article page.


 * Estonia-stub – Stub template for articles relating to Estonia.
 * Estonia-geo-stub – Stub template for articles relating to Estonian geography.
 * Estonia-bio-stub – Stub template for articles relating to Estonian people.
 * Estonia-sport-stub – Stub template for Estonian sport-related articles.
 * Estonia-sport-bio-stub – Stub template for articles about Estonian sports people.
 * Estonia-politician-stub – Stub template for articles about Estonian politicians.
 * Estonia-band-stub – Stub template for articles about Estonian bands.
 * Estonia-company-stub – Stub template for articles about Estonian companies.
 * Estonia-hist-stub – Stub template for articles about Estonian history.

Article/other templates

 * PD-EE-exempt – Estonian copyright law: "Copyright does not apply to works of folklore, legislation and administrative documents, court decisions and official translations thereof; official symbols of the state and insignia of organisations."
 * Infobox settlement – Template to be used in articles about Estonian cities.
 * Nature reserves of Estonia – Navigational template of nature reserves of Estonia.
 * National parks of Estonia – Navigational template of national parks of Estonia.
 * Airlines of Estonia – Navigational template of Category:Airlines of Estonia.
 * Cinema of Estonia – Navigational template for Cinema of Estonia.
 * Counties of Estonia – Navigational template for Counties of Estonia.

Project Awards
The Award of the Soaring Swallow, Estonia's national bird set against Estonia's national flower, the Cornflower, is barnstar for outstanding contributions to Estonia related articles. This award is only given by a consensus of editors with this template:

The Estonian Award of National Merit barnstar is available to be given out to members whose work regarding the project is found by other members to be particularly deserving of recognition. Anyone is able is to award another user a barnstar, for whatever reason they see fit. To award the barnstar, add the following template to another user's talk page:

The Estonia Star is a barnstar for outstanding contributions to Estonia-related articles on Wikipedia. To award the barnstar, add the following template to another user's talk page:

The Estonia Barnstar of National Merit. To award the barnstar, add the following template to another user's talk page:



14 000 tagged pages
WikiProject_Estonia/publicwatchlist has now 14090 tagged pages. Sander Säde 09:32, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

13 000 tagged pages
Thanks to a new tool to find WP:Estonia-related articles and categories, we went over 13 000 tagged pages today. A year and a month for 1000 pages. -- Sander Säde 08:44, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

12 000 tagged pages
A new milestone - 12 058 articles are tagged with. As you can see from the last news item, it has taken us almost 850 days to add 2000 pages - on average, 2.42 pages/day. -- Sander Säde 08:37, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Monuments, also in Estonia
Hey, in coming September there will be photo contest in several European countries about and around national heritage monuments. So, check your camara and find out more at http://www.wikilovesmonuments.ee/ --WikedKentaur (talk) 16:06, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

10 000 tagged pages
As of now, we have 10 022 Wikipedia pages tagged with, 1156 of which are categories and 7984 are articles (rest are templates, files and such). The number has largely increased thanks to the geographical stubs by and. However, once again, time to go for quality and not quantity! -- Sander Säde 08:57, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Estonian nature photos competition, 2010
There's an ongoing Estonian nature photos competition (till October 3, 2010), main page in Estonian – et:Vikipeedia:HELP – and summary in English – commons:Commons:Estonian nature photos competition, 2010. Participants are welcome. --WikedKentaur (talk) 09:07, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

5000 tagged articles reached
Today we've reached 5034 articles, categories and templates tagged with Template:WikiProject Estonia. Well done, everybody! Now that we have the quantity, time to improve the quality of articles. -- Sander Säde 12:46, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

MTÜ Wikimedia Eesti
As there is a plan to create a local chapter in Estonia then would here be someone interested of becoming a member of this chapter, titled MTÜ Wikimedia Eesti? Iffcool (talk) 23:42, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Created. Avjoska (talk) 21:24, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

Cult stones
Among ancient sacral landmarks in Estonia are cult stones (see ). To my knowledge, this phenomenon is not unique to Estonia; several neighbouring cultures also have them. Unfortunately, I haven't yet found the appropriate article.

Where should I look for it, or is there a need to create one? ΔιγουρενΕμπρος! 11:36, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Baltic cinema task force
Baltic cinema task force ready for sign ups.--Termer (talk) 02:25, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Soviet and post-Soviet cinema task force
naming of the new task force involving WikiProject Estonia under discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Films/Soviet and post-Soviet cinema task force--Termer (talk) 17:55, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Country of birth for the Soviet era
Please check Centralized discussion/Country of birth, it appears important Alex Bakharev (talk) 14:34, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

The Baltic states task force for WikiProject Military history
The Baltic states military history task force is all set up and ready for sign up--Termer 06:29, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

2000 WikiProject Estonia articles
We recently went over 2000 articles tagged for WP:WPET. Well done, everybody!

However, 1052 of them are stub-class, 629 are start-class and 218 are unassessed. No featured class articles and just one GA-level article. Quality, people, quality, not quantity! Perhaps a little motivation is needed – how about a barnstar for getting next article to GA level and Award of the Soaring Swallow for the first FA level article? Let's get cracking, people!
 * -- Sander Säde  18:20, 1 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I went through the unassessed articles and assessed them... pita, but at least now it is done. – Sander Säde  16:57, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Suggestion
In order to bolster development of the Estonian articles, it would be great to improve referencing and expand coverage. My suggestion is to proceed from sources to articles rather than other way round. Something along the following lines could work:
 * 1) Enter an Estonia-related search term in Google Scholar
 * 2) Choose an interesting source among the results
 * 3) Summarize (some important part of) it briefly so that you don’t violate copyright
 * 4) Insert claims from the summary with properly formatted inline references into various relevant articles

What do you think of this? Colchicum 14:59, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Pay attention to this (only about 1000 items, not 132,000) and this  (only about 750 items, not 22,900). Colchicum 16:52, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

List of recent Estonia-related changes

 * List of recent Estonia-related changes – it may be useful to detect attacks.Colchicum 11:25, 28 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I wrote a minor script, that displays this page on top of your watchlist. It should work without Twinkle and it is relatively untested. If you need to change the options, edit the URL – namely, it should be self-explanatory. To install (instructions blatantly stolen from Twinkle page):


 * 1. copy the text below and paste it into the bottom of your monobook.js file:


 * 2. save the new monobook.js page, and


 * 3. completely refresh your browser by bypassing your cache (hit Control-Shift-R in Firefox or Control-F5 in Internet Explorer).


 * The script:

 addOnloadHook(estRelated); function estRelated { if (document.URL.indexOf('Special:Watchlist') == -1) return; estaj=sajax_init_object(null); estaj.open("GET", "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Estonia/EA&hideminor=0&days=1&limit=50", true); estaj.onreadystatechange = function {   if(estaj.readyState != 4) return; sPage = estaj.responseText; document.getElementById("contentSub").innerHTML = sPage.substring(sPage.indexOf(" "), sPage.indexOf(' ') - 25); }; estaj.send(null); }
 * Please let me know if you have any problems or ideas.

DLX 07:56, 30 June 2007 (UTC)


 * It might be good to use as URL in this script http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=User:Sander_S%C3%A4de/WPEarticles&hideminor=0&days=7&limit=50 (as link), which is updated (hopefully) more often then previous one – and contains all WikiProject Estonia articles and talk pages – you can see the list here. That list gets updated whenever I (or if someone else wants to do it as well – go ahead) runs this script. Sander Säde  18:22, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Updated watchlist script is available from here. Sander Säde 10:08, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Tools and links

 * Main tool page: toolserver.org


 * Reflinks – Edits bare references – adds title/dates etc. to bare references
 * Checklinks – Edit and repair external links
 * Dab solver – Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
 * Peer reviewer – Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

Watchlists

 * WikiProject Estonia Watchlist related changes