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Welcome to WikiProject Finland, a WikiProject that aims to collaboratively improve Wikipedia's articles related to Finland with a spirit of cooperation. If you want to participate, just add your name to the members subpage.

Contents 1 Goals 2 Scope 3 To do 4 Participants 4.1 Userboxes 5 Departments 6 Article alerts 7 Featured content 7.1 Featured articles 7.2 Featured lists 7.3 Good articles 7.4 Did you know? (DYK) 7.5 Featured images 7.6 Former featured articles 7.7 Former good articles 8 Peer review 9 Needed articles 10 Templates 10.1 Stubs 11 Related projects 12 Resources 13 Recent articles

[edit] Goals

The goals of this project are to create, improve, and maintain articles relating to the country of Finland, its history, people, geography, and culture.

[edit] Scope

The scope of this project is all articles which fall in the Category:Finland.

[edit] To do

• Add {{Portal|Finland|Nuvola Finnish flag.svg}} to existing See also sections of Finland-related articles.
• Tag the talk pages of Finland-related articles with the {{Finland}} banner.
• Rate the Unassessed Finland articles in the Finland WikiProject.
• Stubs: Fix a Finland stub by expanding it into a full article.
• Help with the Finland articles needing attention.
• Look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Finland/New article announcements.

[edit] Participants

If you would like to participate in the project, please add your name to the members page.

1. NIR-Warrior (talk · contribs)
2. Prolog (talk · contribs)
3. Pudeo (talk · contribs)
4. Ernst Stavro Blofeld (talk · contribs)
5. Thereen (talk · contribs)
6. Jkstark (talk · contribs)
7. KFP (talk · contribs)
8. MoRsE (talk · contribs)
9. Razor romance (talk · contribs)
10. Silpol (talk · contribs)
11. Yksin (talk · contribs)
12. Yupik (talk · contribs)
13. Jyril (talk · contribs)
14. Whiskey (talk · contribs)
15. Teuton (talk · contribs)
16. Jontts (talk · contribs)
17. Agamemnon2 (talk · contribs)
18. Tellervo (talk · contribs)
19. Teemu Romppanen (talk · contribs)
20. Drieakko (talk · contribs)
21. Hghazi (talk · contribs)
22. Husond (talk · contribs)
23. Zakuragi (talk · contribs)
24. Grimne (talk · contribs)
25. Tulkolahten (talk · contribs)
26. Movedgood (talk · contribs)
27. MPorciusCato (talk · contribs)
28. mika167 (talk · contribs)
29. Victor Chmara (talk · contribs)
30. astraldaeva (talk · contribs)
31. Aecis (talk · contribs)
32. Spiby (talk · contribs)
33. KihoDeal (talk · contribs)
34. -Majestic- (talk · contribs)
35. Finlandlive (talk · contribs)
36. Chino (talk · contribs)
37. Apalsola (talk · contribs)
38. Kaspersu (talk · contribs)
39. KartRacer32 (talk · contribs)
40. Kotiwalo (talk · contribs)
41. A333 (talk · contribs)
42. Peltimikko (talk · contribs)
43. Shardz (talk · contribs)
44. Ilyushka88 (talk · contribs)

[edit] Userboxes

All members should feel free to add either of the following userboxes to their user page:

Userboxes
{{Template:User WPFinnish}}	This user is a member of WikiProject Finland
{{User:Thereen/Userboxes/WPFinland}}	This user is a member of WikiProject Finland.

[edit] Departments

• Assessment - the assessment department.

[edit] Article alerts

Article alerts

Proposed deletion 20 Dec 2009 – Con Hombres (talk) proposed for deletion by Schrandit. Featured article candidates 31 Oct 2009 – Winter War (talk) is nominated by Peltimikko. Featured list candidates 19 Dec 2009 – List of Nightwish band members (talk) is not promoted. 19 Dec 2009 – Nightwish discography (talk) is not promoted. Good article nominations 10 Dec 2009 – Nokian Tyres (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion. Good article reassessment 9 Dec 2009 – Nokian Tyres (talk) is nominated for a community reassessment by Jezhotwells; see discussion. Other news 10 Dec 2009 – The cleanup listings from WolterBot have updated. 7 Dec 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out. 30 Nov 2009 – The new book-class is released. See the Signpost article and the setup guide for details. Contact Headbomb for questions and help. 28 Nov 2009 – A new database dump is available. Archives (4 more...)

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[edit] Featured content

This section is not complete, help by adding lacking featured content.

[edit] Featured articles

• Finnish Civil War
• Gyromitra esculenta
• Henry (Bishop of Finland)
• Swedish language

[edit] Featured lists

• List of Swedish-speaking and bilingual municipalities of Finland

[edit] Good articles

• Finland Plot
• Henri Toivonen
• Kauhajoki school shooting
• Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
• Personent hodie
• Response to Kauhajoki school shooting
• Thomas (Bishop of Finland)

[edit] Did you know? (DYK)

Arvo Tuominen April 8, 2006 Mobile phone throwing August 29, 2006 Aimo Lahti November 20, 2006 Prehistoric Finnish wars November 28, 2006 Larin Paraske January 21, 2007 Valmet Tuuli January 23, 2007 Kaleva (airplane) February 5, 2007 Assyrians in Finland March 4, 2007 Kingdom of Finland (1742) April 10, 2007 Saint Petersburg–Hiitola railroad April 12, 2007 MS Nordlandia May 24, 2007 Bishop Thomas May 31, 2007 Finnish-Novgorodian wars June 7, 2007 Aero Flight 311 June 10, 2007 Finnish Lakeland June 13, 2007 YIT August 11, 2007 Espoo Cathedral October 9, 2007

List of Swedish-speaking and bilingual municipalities of Finland, November 16, 2007 Lapsiporno.info, February 18, 2008 Finnish name, March 15, 2008 Valentin Vaala, March 19, 2008 Tiia Piili, March 24, 2008 Suomi-Filmi, March 26, 2008 Erkki Karu, March 26, 2008 Blooddrunk (song), August 1, 2008 Taisto Mäki, August 31, 2008 Ismo Alanko Säätiö, January 7, 2009 Anssi Koivuranta, January 12, 2009 Personent hodie, January 14, 2009 Anne Holmlund, February 13, 2009

[edit] Featured images

A panorama shot from the water tower in Hanko, Finland.	Juuso Pykälistö driving a Peugeot 206 WRC at the 2003 Swedish Rally.	Sun setting over Lake Päijänne in Sysmä, Finland. (Commons)	The VR warehouses on fire on May 5, 2006. (Commons)
Mika Häkkinen driving DTM car AMG 2006 (Commons)

[edit] Former featured articles

• Nightwish

[edit] Former good articles

• Finnish-Novgorodian wars
• Finns
• Karikkoselkä
• Keurusselkä

[edit] Peer review

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Finland/Assessment#Requesting an assessment

[edit] Needed articles

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Finland/Article requests

[edit] Templates

• {{Finland}} is the project banner, to be added to the talk pages of all articles which fall within the scope of the project.
• {{Infobox Finnish municipality}} is the infobox template for Finnish municipalities (including cities and towns) with automated population and area data.

[edit] Stubs

• {{Finland-stub}} – Stub template for articles relating to Finland; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
  • {{Finland-footyclub-stub}} – Stub notice for articles relating to Finnish football (soccer) clubs; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
  • {{Finland-bio-stub}} – Stub notice for articles relating to Finnish people; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
  • {{Finland-geo-stub}} – Stub notice for articles relating to Finnish geogrpahy; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
  • {{Finland-bio-stub}} – Stub notice for articles relating to Finnish people; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
    • {{Finland-actor-stub}} – Stub notice for articles relating to Finnish actors; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
    • {{Finland-footy-bio-stub}} – Stub notice for articles relating to Finnish football (soccer) people; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
    • {{Finland-musician-stub}} – Stub notice for articles relating to Finnish musicians; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
    • {{Finland-politician-stub}} – Stub notice for articles relating to Finnish politicians; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
    • {{Finland-athletics-bio-stub}} – Stub notice for articles relating to Finnish track and field athletes; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
    • {{Finland-wintersport-bio-stub}} – Stub notice for articles relating to Finnish people involved in winter sports, such as skiing, ski jumping, luge, skeleton, biathlon, curling, and snowboarding; to be put on the bottom of each article page. For ice hockey biographical articles, please also add {{icehockey-bio-stub}}. For ice skating biographical articles, please also add {{euro-figure-skating-bio-stub}}.
    • {{Finland-writer-stub}} – Stub notice for articles relating to Finnish writers; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
    • {{Finland-artist-stub}} – Stub notice for articles relating to Finnish artists; to be put on the bottom of each article page.

[edit] Related projects

• Nordic military history
• Åland Islands
• HIM
• Sámi Project
• Lutheranism

[edit] Resources

• Government
  • The Finnish Government – Official governmental site
  • The President of Finland – Official site of the President of the Republic of Finland
  • Parliament of Finland – Official Parliamentary site
  • Finland's EU Presidency – Official site of Finland's EU presidency
  • Parliament's Centennial – 100 years of Finnish democracy – Parliament celebrates its centennial in 2006–2007

• Overviews
  • Statistics Finland – Finland in Figures
  • Encyclopædia Britannica Online – Finland's country page
  • Finnguide.fi – Finland Information in English
  • International English Speakers' Association of Finland ry – Events and information for English speakers in Finland
  • Tourism in Finland
  • Travel and Tourism in Finland

• History
  • History of Finland: Primary Documents

• Maps & Tourism
  • WikiMapia [1] and Google Maps [2] satellite view of Finland
  • Finland Travel Club – A free club for everyone interested in Finland
  • Virtual Finland – Main portal to Finland (administered by Finland's government)
  • Visit Finland – Finland Info Travellers (by Finnish Tourist Board)
  • Under the Open Sky Photo gallery of Finland`s seasons, nature, towns and happenings
  • Finland pictures – A photo gallery about Finland
  • Welcome to Finland – Finland facts
  • Today's weather by the Finnish Meteorological Institute

• Other
  • Finlandia (a cappella version, including traditional lyrics) can be heard on Virtual Finland
  • Genocide in Soviet Karelia: Stalin's Terror and the Finns of Soviet Karelia
  • Helsinki.fi – Capital of Finland's city portal
  • Washington Post's Finland Diary blog
  • Kuntaliitto

[edit] Recent articles

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Finland/New article announcements

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