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Estonian language edition of Wikipedia
The Estonian Wikipedia (Estonian: Eestikeelne Vikipeedia) is the Estonian version of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, started on 24 August 2002. As of March 2024, the edition has about 244,000 articles.[1]
On 7 December 2008 Estonian Wikipedian Andres Luure was one of fifteen individuals recognized for volunteerism in Estonia for 2008.[2] In 2013 he received Order of the White Star for his contributions to Wikipedia.[3]
The first article competition was held in spring 2009 and first photo competition in summer 2010. Since then those kinds of competitions have been common in Estonian Wikipedia.[4]
As of February 2021, it was the most visited language Wikipedia in Estonia.[5] It ranked before the Russian Wikipedia and the English Wikipedia.[6][7]
Statistics
As of August 2012, The Estonian Wikipedia has the 3rd greatest number of articles per speaker among Wikipedias with over 100,000 articles, and ranks 10th overall.[8] These figures were based on Ethnologue's estimate of 1,048,660 Estonian speakers.
The Estonian Wikipedia is the 41st edition to reach the milestone of 100,000 articles and the third edition in a Uralic language to do so, after the Finnish and Hungarian Wikipedias.[9]
As of August 2012, the Estonian Wikipedia's number of articles accounts for approximately 23% of all the articles written in a Finno-Permic language, making it the second largest edition in the family after Finnish, which accounts for 70% of Finno-Permic articles.[10]
The Estonian Wikipedia has a relatively high percentage of administrators per regular active users (over 9%) compared to the Finnish Wikipedia, where only 2.5% of active users are administrators.[11] As of March 2024, the edition has 573 active contributors and 34 administrators.[11]
The overwhelming majority of its edits originate from Estonia, while a minority of contributions come from neighboring Northern European countries, which account for most of the remaining share of editors.
| Articles |
Date
|
| 100 |
December 2002
|
| 500 |
September 2003
|
| 1,000 |
October 2003
|
| 5,000 |
July 2004
|
| 10,000 |
15 May 2005
|
| 15,000 |
12 February 2006
|
| 20,000 |
22 July 2006
|
| 25,000 |
30 October 2006
|
| 30,000 |
1 February 2007
|
| 35,000 |
12 May 2007
|
| 40,000 |
30 August 2007
|
| 45,000 |
23 January 2008
|
| 50,000 |
4 June 2008
|
| 55,000 |
19 October 2008
|
| 60,000 |
21 February 2009
|
| 65,000 |
15 July 2009
|
| 70,000 |
15 December 2009
|
| 75,000 |
18 May 2010
|
| 80,000 |
30 November 2010
|
| 85,000 |
1 June 2011
|
| 90,000 |
12 November 2011
|
| 95,000 |
30 March 2012
|
| 100,000 |
25 August 2012
|
| 105,000 |
6 January 2013
|
| 110,000 |
22 April 2013
|
| 115,000 |
7 September 2013
|
| 120,000 |
23 January 2014
|
| 200,000 |
12 August 2019
|
The first meeting for local Wikipedians was held in 2007.[12]
The Estonian Wikimedia chapter named Wikimedia Eesti was founded in 2010 to support Estonian Wikipedia.
