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This article reports an analysis of metacommunication in the Finnish language
version of Wikipedia. The analysis is based on a sample of 5,000 edits collected from the
Recent Changes page during ten days. By adopting the lens of the genre theory of
organizational communication, an overview of metacommunication genres in the Finnish
Wikipedia is reported. While a majority of edits, naturally, focuses on the actual
encyclopaedia articles, a rich set of metacommunication genres and genre systems has
emerged to support the creation of articles and the community dynamics. In this context, we
observed metacommunication genre systems to serve at least for ten types of purposes. Some
genre forms are fundamentally pre-defined by the MediaWiki software on which Wikipedia is
based on. Other forms of ad-hoc metacommunication seem to develop over time towards
more stable and standardized genres. A number of metacommunication genres can be
involved in more than one genre system and carry multiple purposes depending on their use
context. This illustrates how metacommunication in Wikipedia seems still, to an extent, to
remain fluid, despite that a part of metacommunication has already specialized towards more
fixed purposes and forms.

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