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Launched6 December 2001;23 years ago (2001-12-06)
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The Basque Wikipedia (Basque : Euskarazko Wikipedia [1] or Euskal Wikipedia) is the Basque language edition of Wikipedia. Founded on 6 December 2001, [2] although its main page was created in November 2003, it reached 58,124 articles by 19 August 2010, making it the 45th-largest Wikipedia. [3] As of July2025, it has 284 active contributors, of which 12 are administrators, and has about 468,000 articles. [4] [5] [6]

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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 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." [7]

On 25 January 2008, the Basque Wikipedia was awarded the Argia Saria granted by the magazine Argia in the category of Internet. [8] [9] [10]

On 21 May 2011, Basque Wikipedia published its 100,000 article, an article about the prohibition of using Basque language throughout history called Euskararen debekua . [11] In December 2011, around 11,000 new articles were added to Basque Wikipedia by the Culture Ministry of the Basque Government. [12]

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 Vikidia  [ fr ]. Two years after the launch, the project had 2,600 articles, most being focused on maths and natural sciences. [13]

Statistics

As of September 2024, the Basque Wikipedia has the fourth greatest number of articles per speaker among Wikipedias with over 100,000 articles, and ranks 21st overall. [14] These figures were based on Ethnologue 's estimate of 665,800 Basque speakers.

Basque Wikipedia
Number of ArticlesDateArticle
16 December 2001 Lurra
1,000April 2004
5,00028 January 2006
10,00028 May 2006
20,00010 September 2007
25,0006 April 2008 [1] Euskal Herriak Bere Eskola
30,00012 September 2008 Sexu
40,00015 July 2009 Eden Project
45,00013 October 2009 Xinmin Hiria
50,00030 December 2009 Errinozero
55,00012 April 2010
60,0008 November 2010 Posta Kode
70,00018 April 2011 Écurat
80,00022 April 2011 Kolonbiako geografia
90,0001 May 2011 Elisabet Farnesio
100,00021 May 2011 Euskararen debekua
120,00021 December 2011
130,0005 May 2012 Vireo approximans
150,00027 March 2013 Pointe-à-Pitre
200,00019 September 2014 Malda (topografia)
250.00023 June 2016 Abuwtiyuw
400.00019 October 2022 Justizia klimatiko

New articles per day

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Idoia Etxeberria (April 24, 2008). "Jakintza eta auzolana". Berria. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Retrieved October 10, 2009.
  2. ↑ Multilingual monthly statistics
  3. ↑ List of Wikipedias - Meta
  4. ↑ Basque Wikipedia´s statistics
  5. ↑ Basque Wikipedia´s statistic
  6. ↑ Graphics on Basque Wikipedia
  7. ↑ Interview on geekillustrated.com, August 2007
  8. ↑ "Imanol Murua Uria Berriako kazetariak jaso du prentsa idatziko Argia saria". Berria. 26 January 2008. Archived from the original on 22 July 2012. Retrieved 10 October 2009.
  9. ↑ Sara Santos (January 26, 2008). "Argia astekariak 2008. urteko bere sariak banatu zituen". Deia. Archived from the original on October 9, 2011. Retrieved October 10, 2009.
  10. ↑ Rebeka Calvo (26 January 2008). "Euskaraz bizi eta sortzen dugun komunitatea gaude gaur hemen". Gara. Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 10 October 2009.
  11. ↑ Iratxe Esnaola (18 May 2011). "Nork idatziko du 100.000. artikulua?". Gara. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
  12. ↑ Cultura incorpora 11.000 nuevas entradas a la Wikipedia en euskera Archived December 28, 2014, at the Wayback Machine (ABC.es, December 29, 2011)
  13. ↑ 20minutos (27 June 2019). "La Wikipedia en euskera recibió 30 millones de visitas en 2018, 5 millones más que en 2017". www.20minutos.es - Últimas Noticias (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 August 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  14. ↑ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_speakers_per_article List of Wikipedias by speakers per article
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