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]

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Main Page of the Estonian Wikipedia in December 2013
Type of site
Internet encyclopedia project
Available inEstonian
HeadquartersMiami, Florida
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
URLet.wikipedia.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
Launched24 August 2002; 21 years ago (2002-08-24)

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 edit

Origin of edits (2012/03/01 - 2012/02/28) Source
Estonia
89.7%
Sweden
2.7%
France
2.1%
Ukraine
1.4%
United States
1.4%
Latvia
0.7%
Spain
0.7%
Finland
0.7%
Denmark
0.7%

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 585 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

Local community edit

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.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "List of Wikipedias - Meta".
  2. ^ An ETV archive of the 2008 Aasta Vabatahtlik award ceremony. Andres Luure's time segment: 39:48-41:33 Archived 13 February 2012 at archive.today
  3. ^ Presidendilt saab tänavu teenetemärgi 99 inimest ERR (in Estonian)
  4. ^ Vikipeedia:Võistlused Estonian Wikipedia
  5. ^ Page views by country - Estonian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Statistics
  6. ^ Page views by country - Russian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Statistics
  7. ^ Page views by country - English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Statistics
  8. ^ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_speakers_per_article List of Wikipedias by speakers per article
  9. ^ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias List of Wikipedias
  10. ^ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_language_group List of Wikipedias by Language Group
  11. ^ a b http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_speakers_per_article List of Wikipedias by Speakers per Article
  12. ^ "ETV: Vikipeedia administraatorid said esmakordselt kokku" Postimees, 16 December 2007

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