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It currently has 50,404 articles.
URL http://eu.wikipedia.org/
Commercial? No
Type of site Internet encyclopedia project
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Available language(s) Basque
Owner Wikimedia Foundation
Launched 6 December 2001

The Basque Wikipedia (Euskarazko Wikipedia[1] in Basque) is the Basque language edition of Wikipedia. Founded on 6 December 2001[2] (although its main page was created in November 2003) and reaching 44,529 articles by October 9, 2009, making it the 46th-largest Wikipedia[3]. It also has about 12.000 registered users, of which eight are administrators. It has been edited more than 1.232.044 times and it has more than 101.557 pages[4][5][6].

It currently has over 50,404 articles.

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

Contents

Statistics

Number of Articles Date Article
1 December 6, 2001 Lurra
1.000 April 2004
5.000 January 28, 2006
10.000 May 28, 2006
20.000 September 10, 2007
25.000 April 6, 2008[1] Euskal Herriak Bere Eskola
30.000 September 12, 2008 Sexu
40.000 July 15, 2009 Eden Project
45.000 October 13, 2009 Xinmin Hiria
50.000 December 30, 2009 Errinozero

New articles per day

  • December 20, 2009: 239 articles
  • October 8, 2009: 219 articles
  • August 30, 2009: 141 articles
  • October 7, 2009: 134 articles
  • October 11, 2009: 125 articles
  • October 9, 2009: 118 articles
  • October 13, 2009: 115 articles

Gallery

Basque Week logo (during October).

2009 Basque Week logo (during October).

Basque Wikipedia's 25.000 article logo

Basque Wikipedia's 30.000 article logo

Basque Wikipedia's 40.000 article logo

References

  1. ^ a b Idoia Etxeberria (2008-04-24). "Jakintza eta auzolana". Berria. http://paperekoa.berria.info/plaza/2008-04-24/054/002/Jakintza_eta_auzolan.htm. Retrieved 2009-10-10.  
  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. 2008-01-26. http://www.berria.info/paperekoa/euskalherria/2008-01-26/013/001/Imanol_Murua_Uria_BERRIAko_kazetariak_jaso_du_prentsa_idatziko_Argia_sariahtm. Retrieved 2009-10-10.  
  9. ^ Sara Santos (2008-01-26). "Argia astekariak 2008. urteko bere sariak banatu zituen". Deia. http://www2.deia.com/es/impresa/2008/01/26/bizkaia/kultura/436882.php. Retrieved 2009-10-10.  
  10. ^ Rebeka Calvo (2008-01-26). "Euskaraz bizi eta sortzen dugun komunitatea gaude gaur hemen". Gara. http://www.gara.net/paperezkoa/20080126/59658/eu/Euskaraz/bizi/eta/sortzen/dugun/komunitatea/gaude/gaur/hemen%C2%BB/. Retrieved 2009-10-10.  

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