The Basque Wikipedia ( 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 , it has active contributors, of which are administrators, and has about 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."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.
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. In December 2011, around 11,000 new articles were added to Basque Wikipedia by the Culture Ministry of the Basque Government.Cultura incorpora 11.000 nuevas entradas a la Wikipedia en euskera (ABC.es, 29 December 2011)
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.
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 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. These figures were based on Ethnologues estimate of 665,800 Basque speakers.
Number of ArticlesDateArticle16 December 2001Lurra1,000April 20045,00028 January 200610,00028 May 200620,00010 September 200725,0006 April 2008Euskal Herriak Bere Eskola30,00012 September 2008Sexu40,00015 July 2009Eden Project45,00013 October 2009Xinmin Hiria50,00030 December 2009Errinozero55,00012 April 201060,0008 November 2010Posta Kode70,00018 April 2011Écurat80,00022 April 2011Kolonbiako geografia90,0001 May 2011Elisabet Farnesio100,00021 May 2011Euskararen debekua120,00021 December 2011130,0005 May 2012Vireo approximans150,00027 March 2013Pointe-à-Pitre200,00019 September 2014Malda (topografia) 250.00023 June 2016Abuwtiyuw 400.00019 October 2022Justizia klimatiko
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
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See also French Wikipedia Spanish Wikipedia
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External links
Basque Wikipedia Basque Wikipedia mobile version Txikipedia