The Basque Wikipedia ( eu, Euskarazko Wikipedia or ''Euskal Wikipedia'') is the Basque language edition of

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. 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 tongue and they want to keep it alive, keep its literature alive. Certainly some of the larger small languages like

Basque Basque may refer to: * Basques, an ethnic group of Spain and France * Basque language, their language Places * Basque Country (greater region), the homeland of the Basque people with parts in both Spain and France * Basque Country (autonomous co ...

and

Catalan Catalan may refer to: Catalonia From, or related to Catalonia: * Catalan language, a Romance language * Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia Places * 13178 Catalan, asteroid #1 ...

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'' 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''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 Wikimedia+Education Conference, San Sebastian 10.jpg, Wikimedia Education Conference, San Sebastian. 2019. Wikipedialari afrikarrak (40569170323).jpg, Wikimedia Education Conference, San Sebastian. 2019.

References

External links

* Basque Wikipedia *
Basque Wikipedia mobile version
* Txikipedia {{Wikipedias Basque-language websites Wikipedias by language Internet properties established in 2001 European encyclopedias