Basque Wikipedia Explained

Basque Wikipedia
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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, it has active contributors, of which are administrators, and has about articles.[4] [5] [6]

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

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.[14] These figures were based on Ethnologues estimate of 665,800 Basque speakers.

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

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External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Idoia Etxeberria . Jakintza eta auzolana . . April 24, 2008 . October 10, 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110716234156/http://paperekoa.berria.info/plaza/2008-04-24/054/002/Jakintza_eta_auzolan.htm . July 16, 2011 . mdy .
  2. [Wikipedia:Multilingual monthly statistics (2001)|Multilingual monthly statistics]
  3. [:m:List of Wikipedias|List of Wikipedias - Meta]
  4. [:eu:Berezi:Estatistikak|Basque Wikipedia´s statistics]
  5. [:stats:EN/TablesWikipediaEU.htm|Basque Wikipedia´s statistic]
  6. [:stats:EN/ChartsWikipediaEU.htm|Graphics on Basque Wikipedia]
  7. http://geekillustrated.com.au/article.htm?articleid=1334&all=yes Interview on geekillustrated.com, August 2007
  8. Web site: Imanol Murua Uria Berriako kazetariak jaso du prentsa idatziko Argia saria . 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 . dead . July 22, 2012 . . January 26, 2008 . October 10, 2009 .
  9. Web site: Sara Santos. Argia astekariak 2008. urteko bere sariak banatu zituen. Deia. January 26, 2008. October 10, 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20111009044344/http://www2.deia.com/es/impresa/2008/01/26/bizkaia/kultura/436882.php. October 9, 2011. dead. mdy-all.
  10. Web site: Rebeka Calvo . Euskaraz bizi eta sortzen dugun komunitatea gaude gaur hemen . . January 26, 2008 . October 10, 2009 . February 22, 2012 . 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/ . dead .
  11. Web site: Iratxe Esnaola . Nork idatziko du 100.000. artikulua? . https://web.archive.org/web/20110927083614/http://www.gara.net/paperezkoa/20110518/266871/eu/Nork-idatziko-du-100000-artikulua . dead . September 27, 2011 . . May 18, 2011 . May 22, 2011 .
  12. http://www.abc.es/agencias/noticia.asp?noticia=1051166 Cultura incorpora 11.000 nuevas entradas a la Wikipedia en euskera
  13. Web site: 20minutos. 2019-06-27. La Wikipedia en euskera recibió 30 millones de visitas en 2018, 5 millones más que en 2017. 2020-08-20. www.20minutos.es - Últimas Noticias. es.
  14. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_speakers_per_article List of Wikipedias by speakers per article