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Available inBasque
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
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Launched6 December 2001; 24 years ago (2001-12-06)
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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 May 2026, it has Lua error in Module:NUMBEROF/data at line 5: attempt to index field 'data' (a nil value). active contributors, of which Lua error in Module:NUMBEROF/data at line 5: attempt to index field 'data' (a nil value). are administrators, and has about Expression error: Unexpected < operator articles.[4][5][6]

History

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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

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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 (fr). Two years after the launch, the project had 2,600 articles, most being focused on maths and natural sciences.[14]

Statistics

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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.

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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

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  • 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

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References

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  1. ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  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
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  11. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  12. ^ Cultura incorpora 11.000 nuevas entradas a la Wikipedia en euskera Archived December 28, 2014, at the Wayback Machine (ABC.es, December 29, 2011)
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  15. ^ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_speakers_per_article List of Wikipedias by speakers per article
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