The Estonian Wikipedia (Estonian: Eestikeelne Vikipeedia) is the Estonian version of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, started on 24 August 2002. As of April 2024, the edition has about 245,000 articles.[1]
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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]
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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 April 2024, the edition has 749 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.
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| Articles | Date |
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| 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 |
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