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Basque Wikipedia
The Basque Wikipedia ( eu, Euskarazko Wikipedia or ''Euskal Wikipedia'') is the Basque language edition of Wikipedia. Founded on December 6, 2001, although its main page was created in November 2003, it reached 58,124 articles by August 19, 2010, making it the 45th-largest Wikipedia. As of , it has active contributors, of which are administrators, and has about articles. History In an August 2007 interview, Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, used the Basque Wikipedia as an example of the rationale for having Wikipedias in smaller languages: :"Certainly within Wikipedia right now we are seeing some fairly successful projects in small European languages. You don't really need a Welsh language Wikipedia, perhaps. The number of people who speak Welsh who don't also speak English is very small and getting smaller every year. So why do we have a Welsh Wikipedia? Well, people wanted it, so they're making it. And language preservation is the main motive. It is their mother to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deia (newspaper)
''Deia'' (in Basque, ''The call'') is a Basque Country newspaper founded in 1977, with a Basque nationalistic perspective. The newspaper is bilingual in character though principally written in Spanish with some articles in Basque. Deia is the main product of the Editorial Iparraguirre S.A. (EISA). Although their initial objective was to cover news in the whole of País Vasco, they actually have as their tag line ''Noticias de Bizkaia'', as their principle market is in Vizcaya, where they are the second largest newspaper in the city. Deia is part of the newspaper group Grupo Noticias, which includes several other Spanish newspapers including ''Diario de Noticias'' in Navarra, '' Noticias de Gipuzkoa'' in Guipúzcoa and '' Noticias de Álava'' en Álava. The current director of the newspaper is Iñaki González Torre. History ''Deia'', together with other publications by their publishing company, was created by the Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
