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
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, 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 tongue and they want to keep it alive, keep its literature alive. Certainly some of the larger small languages like
Basque and
Catalan have very successful projects. I definitely see that preserving parts of your language and culture through collaborative projects makes a lot of sense."
On January 25, 2008, the Basque Wikipedia was awarded the
Argia Saria granted by the magazine ''
Argia
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'' in the category of Internet.
On May 21, 2011, Basque Wikipedia published its 100,000 article, an article about the prohibition of using Basque language throughout history called ''
Euskararen debekua''. In December 2011, around 11,000 new articles were added to Basque Wikipedia by the Culture Ministry of the Basque Government.
Txikipedia
In 2018, the Basque Wikipedia started a sub-project where articles were aimed at children, named Txikipedia ("txiki" being Basque for "small"). It was inspired by an independent French project named . Two years after the launch, the project had 2,600 articles, most being focused on maths and natural sciences.
Statistics
As of February 2012, the Basque Wikipedia has the second greatest number of articles per speaker among Wikipedias with over 100,000 articles, and ranks sixth overall.
[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_speakers_per_article List of Wikipedias by speakers per article] These figures were based on ''
Ethnologue
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''s estimate of 665,800 Basque speakers.
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New articles per day
* November 8, 2010: 456 articles
* December 20, 2009: 239 articles
* October 8, 2009: 219 articles
* August 30, 2009: 141 articles
* October 7, 2009: 134 articles
* October 11, 2009: 125 articles
* October 9, 2009: 118 articles
* October 13, 2009: 115 articles
Gallery
Euskal award.png, Basque Week logo (during October).
Euskalastealogo.png, 2009 Basque Week logo (during October).
25000artikulu.png, Basque Wikipedia's 25.000 article logo
Euskarazko Wikipediak 30000 artikulu.png, Basque Wikipedia's 30.000 article logo
40000 euskal wikipedia.png, Basque Wikipedia's 40.000 article logo
Wikipedia-eu-50000.png, Basque Wikipedia's 50.000 article logo
Basque Wikipedia - 10 years.png, 2011 - Basque Wikipedia's tenth birthday's logo
Uztaritzeko Wikimedia ikastaroa.jpg, Workshop held by Basque Wikimedians with librarians in Bayonne
Bayonne (; eu, Baiona ; oc, label= Gascon, Baiona ; es, Bayona) is a city in Southwestern France near the Spanish border. It is a commune and one of two subprefectures in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine re ...
Wikimedia+Education Conference, San Sebastian 10.jpg, Wikimedia Education Conference, San Sebastian. 2019.
Wikipedialari afrikarrak (40569170323).jpg, Wikimedia Education Conference, San Sebastian. 2019.
See also
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French Wikipedia
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Spanish Wikipedia
References
External links
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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, 201 ...
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Basque Wikipedia mobile version*
Txikipedia
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