Basque Wikipedia
{{Short description|Basque-language edition of Wikipedia}}
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{{Expand Basque|Euskarazko Wikipedia (webgunea)|date=August 2012}}
{{Infobox website
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| caption = Basque Wikipedia's screenshot, 26 June 2016.
It currently has {{NUMBEROF|ARTICLES|eu|N}} articles.
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| type = Internet encyclopedia project
| language = Basque
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| owner = Wikimedia Foundation
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The Basque Wikipedia ({{langx|eu|Euskarazko Wikipedia}}{{Cite web|author=Idoia Etxeberria |title=Jakintza eta auzolana |url=http://paperekoa.berria.info/plaza/2008-04-24/054/002/Jakintza_eta_auzolan.htm |publisher=Berria |date=April 24, 2008 |access-date=October 10, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716234156/http://paperekoa.berria.info/plaza/2008-04-24/054/002/Jakintza_eta_auzolan.htm |archive-date=July 16, 2011 |df=mdy }} or Euskal Wikipedia) is the Basque language edition of Wikipedia. Founded on 6 December 2001,Multilingual monthly statistics although its main page was created in November 2003, it reached 58,124 articles by 19 August 2010, making it the 45th-largest Wikipedia.List of Wikipedias - Meta As of {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}, it has {{NUMBEROF|ACTIVEUSERS|eu|N}} active contributors, of which {{NUMBEROF|ADMINS|eu|N}} are administrators, and has about {{formatnum:{{#expr:{{NUMBEROF|ARTICLES|eu}} round -3}}}} articles.Basque Wikipedia´s statisticsBasque Wikipedia´s statisticGraphics on Basque Wikipedia
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."[http://geekillustrated.com.au/article.htm?articleid=1334&all=yes Interview on geekillustrated.com, August 2007]
On 25 January 2008, the Basque Wikipedia was awarded the Argia Saria granted by the magazine Argia in the category of Internet.{{Cite web|title=Imanol Murua Uria Berriako kazetariak jaso du prentsa idatziko Argia saria |url=http://www.berria.info/paperekoa/euskalherria/2008-01-26/013/001/Imanol_Murua_Uria_BERRIAko_kazetariak_jaso_du_prentsa_idatziko_Argia_sariahtm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120722185728/http://www.berria.info/paperekoa/euskalherria/2008-01-26/013/001/Imanol_Murua_Uria_BERRIAko_kazetariak_jaso_du_prentsa_idatziko_Argia_sariahtm |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 22, 2012 |publisher=Berria |date=January 26, 2008 |access-date=October 10, 2009 }}{{Cite web|author=Sara Santos|title=Argia astekariak 2008. urteko bere sariak banatu zituen|url=http://www2.deia.com/es/impresa/2008/01/26/bizkaia/kultura/436882.php|publisher=Deia|date=January 26, 2008|access-date=October 10, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111009044344/http://www2.deia.com/es/impresa/2008/01/26/bizkaia/kultura/436882.php|archive-date=October 9, 2011|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}{{Cite web |author=Rebeka Calvo |url=http://www.gara.net/paperezkoa/20080126/59658/eu/Euskaraz/bizi/eta/sortzen/dugun/komunitatea/gaude/gaur/hemen%C2%BB/ |title=Euskaraz bizi eta sortzen dugun komunitatea gaude gaur hemen |publisher=Gara|date=January 26, 2008 |access-date=October 10, 2009 |archive-date=February 22, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222014557/http://www.gara.net/paperezkoa/20080126/59658/eu/Euskaraz/bizi/eta/sortzen/dugun/komunitatea/gaude/gaur/hemen%C2%BB/ |url-status=dead }}
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.{{Cite web |author=Iratxe Esnaola |url=http://www.gara.net/paperezkoa/20110518/266871/eu/Nork-idatziko-du-100000-artikulua |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927083614/http://www.gara.net/paperezkoa/20110518/266871/eu/Nork-idatziko-du-100000-artikulua |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 27, 2011 |title=Nork idatziko du 100.000. artikulua? |publisher=Gara |date=May 18, 2011 |access-date=May 22, 2011 }} In December 2011, around 11,000 new articles were added to Basque Wikipedia by the Culture Ministry of the Basque Government.[http://www.abc.es/agencias/noticia.asp?noticia=1051166 Cultura incorpora 11.000 nuevas entradas a la Wikipedia en euskera] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228115538/http://www.abc.es/agencias/noticia.asp?noticia=1051166 |date=December 28, 2014 }} (ABC.es, December 29, 2011)
= 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 {{ill|Vikidia|fr}}. Two years after the launch, the project had 2,600 articles, most being focused on maths and natural sciences.{{Cite web|last=20minutos|date=2019-06-27|title=La Wikipedia en euskera recibió 30 millones de visitas en 2018, 5 millones más que en 2017|url=https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/3685180/0/wikipedia-euskera-recibio-30-millones-visitas-2018-5-millones-mas-que-2017/|access-date=2020-08-20|website=www.20minutos.es - Últimas Noticias|language=es}}
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.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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| class="wikitable"
!colspan="1"|Number of Articles !colspan="1"|Date !colspan="1"|Article |
| 1
|6 December 2001 |
| 1,000
|April 2004 | |
| 5,000
|28 January 2006 | |
| 10,000
|28 May 2006 | |
| 20,000
|10 September 2007 | |
| 25,000 |
| 30,000
|12 September 2008 |Sexu |
| 40,000
|15 July 2009 |
| 45,000
|13 October 2009 |
| 50,000
|30 December 2009 |
| 55,000
|12 April 2010 | |
| 60,000
|8 November 2010 |
| 70,000
|18 April 2011 |
| 80,000
|22 April 2011 |
| 90,000
|1 May 2011 |
| 100,000
|21 May 2011 |
| 120,000
|21 December 2011 | |
| 130,000
|5 May 2012 |
| 150,000
|27 March 2013 |
| 200,000
|19 September 2014 |
| 250.000
|23 June 2016 |
| 400.000
|19 October 2022 |
=New articles per day=
- 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
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.
See also
References
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External links
{{InterWiki|code=eu}}
- {{in lang|eu}} Basque Wikipedia
- {{in lang|eu}} [http://eu.m.wikipedia.org/ Basque Wikipedia mobile version]
- {{in lang|eu}} Txikipedia
{{Wikipedias}}
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