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)	582,631	1,536
Hungarian (hu)	549,332	1,546
Estonian (et)	248,498	528
Western Mari (mrj)	10,433	14
Eastern Mari (mhr)	11,361	18
Northern Sami (se)	7,893	26
Võro (fiu-vro)	6,705	25
Veps (vep)	6,985	27
Komi (kv)	5,538	20
Udmurt (udm)	5,715	19
Komi-Permyak (koi)	3,467	16
Erzya (myv)	7,876	19
Moksha (mdf)	6,784	30