Finnish Wikipedia


The Finnish Wikipedia is the edition of Wikipedia in the Finnish language. By article count, it is the 24th largest Wikipedia with about articles as of . 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

In 2019 the Finnish Wikipedia has 72 thousand unique categories. The average article in this language version has 6 categories, while number of unique categories per articles ratio is 0.158. The largest number of articles has People and Politics category. In Finnish Wikipedia articles related to Government and Nature has the highest average quality. Content about Government is read more often and has the highest authors' interest on average.