The Estonian Wikipedia () is the Estonian version of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, which was started on 24 August 2002. As of , it has articles and is the -largest Wikipedia edition.
On 7 December 2008 Estonian Wikipedian Andres Luure was one of fifteen individuals recognized for volunteerism in Estonia for 2008.An ETV archive of the 2008 Aasta Vabatahtlik award ceremony. Andres Luure's time segment: 39:48-41:33 In 2013 he received Order of the White Star for his contributions to Wikipedia.Presidendilt saab tänavu teenetemärgi 99 inimest ERR (in Estonian)
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.Vikipeedia:Võistlused Estonian Wikipedia
As of February 2021, it was the most visited language Wikipedia in Estonia.Page views by country - Estonian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Statistics It ranked before the Russian Wikipedia and the English Wikipedia.Page views by country - Russian Wikipedia, Wikimedia StatisticsPage views by country - English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Statistics
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.http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_speakers_per_article List of Wikipedias by speakers per article 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.http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias List of Wikipedias
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.https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_language_group List of Wikipedias by Language Group
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.http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_speakers_per_article List of Wikipedias by Speakers per Article As of , the edition has active contributors and administrators.
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.
ArticlesDate100 December 2002500 September 20031,000 October 20035,000 July 200410,000 15 May 200515,000 12 February 200620,000 22 July 200625,000 30 October 200630,000 1 February 200735,000 12 May 200740,000 30 August 200745,000 23 January 200850,000 4 June 200855,000 19 October 200860,000 21 February 200965,000 15 July 200970,000 15 December 200975,000 18 May 201080,000 30 November 201085,000 1 June 201190,000 12 November 201195,000 30 March 2012100,000 25 August 2012105,000 6 January 2013110,000 22 April 2013115,000 7 September 2013120,000 23 January 2014200,000 12 August 2019250,000 1 January 2025
Local community The first meeting for local Wikipedians was held in 2007."ETV: Vikipeedia administraatorid said esmakordselt kokku" Postimees, 16 December 2007
The Estonian Wikimedia chapter named Wikimedia Eesti was founded in 2010 to support Estonian Wikipedia.
See also Võro Wikipedia
References
External links
Estonian Wikipedia