Basque Wikipedia
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| Website type | Internet encyclopedia project |
|---|---|
| Available in | Basque |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Website | eu.wikipedia.org |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 6 December 2001 |
| Content license | Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies |
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 October 2026, it has 959 active contributors, of which 12 are administrators, and has about 499,000 articles.[4][5][6]
History#edit
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]
in December 2025, they were the first to upload all the articles in the list of 1,000 articles that all Wikipedians must have, in excess of 30,000 bytes.[13]
Txikipedia#edit
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. Two years after the launch, the project had 2,600 articles, most being focused on maths and natural sciences.[14]
Statistics#edit
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.[15] These figures were based on Ethnologue's estimate of 665,800 Basque speakers.
| Number of Articles | Date | Article |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 December 2001 | Lurra |
| 1,000 | April 2004 | |
| 5,000 | 28 January 2006 | |
| 10,000 | 28 May 2006 | |
| 20,000 | 10 September 2007 | |
| 25,000 | 6 April 2008[1] | Euskal Herriak Bere Eskola |
| 30,000 | 12 September 2008 | Sexu |
| 40,000 | 15 July 2009 | Eden Project |
| 45,000 | 13 October 2009 | Xinmin Hiria |
| 50,000 | 30 December 2009 | Errinozero |
| 55,000 | 12 April 2010 | |
| 60,000 | 8 November 2010 | Posta Kode |
| 70,000 | 18 April 2011 | Écurat |
| 80,000 | 22 April 2011 | Kolonbiako geografia |
| 90,000 | 1 May 2011 | Elisabet Farnesio |
| 100,000 | 21 May 2011 | Euskararen debekua |
| 120,000 | 21 December 2011 | |
| 130,000 | 5 May 2012 | Vireo approximans |
| 150,000 | 27 March 2013 | Pointe-à-Pitre |
| 200,000 | 19 September 2014 | Malda (topografia) |
| 250.000 | 23 June 2016 | Abuwtiyuw |
| 400.000 | 19 October 2022 | Justizia klimatiko |
New articles per day#edit
- 8 November 2010: 456 articles
- 20 December 2009: 239 articles
- 8 October 2009: 219 articles
- 30 August 2009: 141 articles
- 7 October 2009: 134 articles
- 11 October 2009: 125 articles
- 9 October 2009: 118 articles
- 13 October 2009: 115 articles
See also#edit
References#edit
- ^ a b Idoia Etxeberria (24 April 2008). "Jakintza eta auzolana". Berria. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 10 October 2009.
- ^ Multilingual monthly statistics
- ^ List of Wikipedias - Meta
- ^ Basque Wikipedia´s statistics
- ^ Basque Wikipedia´s statistic
- ^ Graphics on Basque Wikipedia
- ^ Interview on geekillustrated.com, August 2007
- ^ "Imanol Murua Uria Berriako kazetariak jaso du prentsa idatziko Argia saria". Berria. 26 January 2008. Retrieved 10 October 2009.
- ^ Sara Santos (26 January 2008). "Argia astekariak 2008. urteko bere sariak banatu zituen". Deia. Archived from the original on 9 October 2011. Retrieved 10 October 2009.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Iratxe Esnaola (18 May 2011). "Nork idatziko du 100.000. artikulua?". Gara. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
- ^ Cultura incorpora 11.000 nuevas entradas a la Wikipedia en euskera Archived 28 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine (ABC.es, 29 December 2011)
- ^ "Euskarazko Wikipediak 24 urte bete ditu, eta munduko lehen postuan kokatu da oinarrizko 1.000 artikuluen zerrendan – Euskal Wikilarien Kultur Elkartea" (in Basque). Retrieved 13 December 2025.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "List of Wikipedias by speakers per article". Wikimedia.
External links#edit
- (in Basque) Basque Wikipedia
- (in Basque) Basque Wikipedia mobile version
- (in Basque) Txikipedia
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