Wikimedia Finno-Ugric Collaboration

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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

Finno-Ugric meeting in 2015 in Estonia

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.

Wikipedias

Map of Finno-Ugric languages

There are 13 Wikipedia projects:

Language	Articles	Active users
Finnish (fi)	575,451	1,461
Hungarian (hu)	543,095	1,527
Estonian (et)	245,826	498
Western Mari (mrj)	10,432	6
Eastern Mari (mhr)	11,396	15
Northern Sami (se)	7,893	14
Võro (fiu-vro)	6,650	24
Veps (vep)	6,979	22
Komi (kv)	5,532	15
Udmurt (udm)	5,690	13
Komi-Permyak (koi)	3,463	6
Erzya (myv)	7,877	14
Moksha (mdf)	5,639	14