The Finnish Wikipedia () is the edition of Wikipedia in the Finnish language. With articles, it is currently the -largest Wikipedia and the largest Wikipedia in a Uralic language. Wikipedia is the only encyclopedia in Finnish which is still updated.
The Finnish language project was started on 9 September 2002, but it remained at a very primitive stage until well into 2003. The speed of development picked up somewhat after the MediaWiki software was upgraded to Phase III in late November 2003, and continued to increase steadily through 2004.
In 2013, the reliability of the Finnish Wikipedia was investigated by the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. The researchers used experts to evaluate quality of randomly selected 134 articles and found that 70% of the articles scored well for accuracy.
In 2026, Finnish Wikipedia contributors received the State Award for Public Information for "their long-term and communal work in building and maintaining open knowledge" on Finnish Wikipedia as well as on Swedish, Inari Sámi and Northern Sámi Wikipedias. The prize of €20,000 was presented to Wikimedia Suomi, a local Wikimedia chapter.
Milestones 600,000 articles – 11 August 2025 550,000 articles – 2 April 2023 500,000 articles – 28 December 2020 450,000 articles – 12 January 2019 400,000 articles – 29 August 2016 350,000 articles – 9 July 2014 300,000 articles – 26 June 2012 250,000 articles – 24 September 2010 200,000 articles – 12 April 2009 150,000 articles – 4 February 2008 100,000 articles – 11 February 2007 50,000 articles – 21 February 2006 25,000 articles – 27 June 2005 15,000 articles – 9 February 2005 10,000 articles – 14 October 2004 5,000 articles – 15 April 2004 1,000 articles – September 2002
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Finnish Wikipedia Finnish Wikipedia mobile version Report from the Finnish Wikipedia, from Wikipedia Signpost (in English Wikipedia), 23 October 2006.