MyWiki:WikiProject Basque

Welcome to the Basque WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Basque people, the Basque Country, the Basque language, as well as Basque history and culture.

(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

Goals

• Improve coverage of Basque issues and the quality of existing articles of Basque theme
• Discuss NPOV standards in our area of interest
• Categorize consistently

Scope

• Everything Basque: Basque people, Basque Country, Basque language, history and culture.

Guidelines

/Basque toponyms (under discussion)

Members

Please feel free to add your name in here.

Userbox

WikiProject Basque Userbox for those who like userboxes.
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Barnstar

• {{subst:The Basque Barnstar|1=message ~~~~}}—awarded to editors who've made significant contributions to Basque-related articles.
  

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Articles

This list is incomplete. Please help expanding it and improving the quality of articles listed.

Basque people

• List of Basques
• List of people with Basque ancestors

Basque Country (greater region)

• Northern Basque Country: Labourd, Lower Navarre, Soule
• Navarre
• Western Basque Country: Álava, Biscay, Guipuscoa, combine Bidasoa-Txingudi and Bidasoaldea
• Major cities of the Basque Country: Bayonne, Bilbao, Donostia, Pamplona, Vitoria-Gasteiz

History and prehistory

Prehistory

• History of the Basque people - main article
• Franco-Cantabrian region
• Tribes: Aquitani, Vascones, Varduli, Caristii, Autrigones
• Roman period: Iruña-Veleia
• Basques in Canada - Trading with Amerindians: Beothuk, Micmac; Inuit

History

• Carlist Wars
• Duchy of Vasconia: Duke of Gascony
• Juan Sebastián de Elcano
• Kingdom of Navarre: List of Navarrese monarchs
• Lord of Biscay

• Basque Country in the Spanish Civil War: Bombing of Gernika

• Template:History of the Basque people. To insert this template add: {{History of the Basque people}}

Basque law

• Basque Statute of Autonomy
• Biltzar
• Elizate
• Ertzaintza
• Fuero (traditional charters and custom law)
• Gernikako Arbola
• Juntas Generales

Basque language

• Basque language
• Aquitanian language
• Basque dialects: Bizkaiera, Gipuzkera, Lapurtera, Goi Nafarrera, Behe Nafarrera, Xiberera
• Standard Basque
• Earliest Basque texts: possibly Iruña-Veleia, Hand of Irulegi
• Basque exonyms
• Erromintxela

Vasconists

• Koldo Mitxelena
• Larry Trask
• Pierre Lafitte

Basque culture

Cuisine

• Basque cuisine
• Basque drinks: Irulegi wines, Izarra, Kalimotxo, Patxaran, Basque cider, Txakoli
• Txoko

Literature

• Bernard Etxepare
• Juan Antonio Mogel
• Pedro Agerre
• Agustin Xaho
• Xabier Lizardi
• Estepan Urkiaga, ''Lauaxeta''
• Jose Antonio Loidi
• Gotzon Garate
• Fernando Artola, ''Bordari''
• Itxaro Borda
• Bernardo Atxaga
• Ramon Saizarbitoria
• Kirmen Uribe

Music

• Basque music
• Bertsolaritza (song/poem contests)

Religion and mythology

• Basilica of Begoña
• Basque mythology: Mari, Sugaar, Urtzi, Lamiak, Jentilak, Sorginak
• Francis Xavier
• Ignatius Loyola
• Pedro Arrupe
• University of Deusto

Festivals

• Mairulegorreta
• Kilometroak
• Herri Urrats
• Nafarroa Oinez
• Araba Euskaraz
• Ibilaldia
• Euskal Herria Zuzenean
• Nafarroaren Eguna at Baigorri
• AEK Eguna
• AEKanpada
• Arrival of Korrika
• Bidasoa Folk
• Lapurtarren Biltzarra
• Baztandarren Biltzarra
• Euskal Eskola Publikoen Eguna
• Mundumira
• Intsumisio Eguna
• Xiru
• Müsikaren Egüna at Urdinharbe

Sports

• Aizkolaritza
• Basque rural sports
• Estropadak
• Harrijasotzaileak
• Pilota (see also Jai Alai)

Other cultural topics

• Baserri
• Basque symbols: Lauburu, Ikurriña, Arrano Beltza
• Basque media: Euskal Telebista, Álex de la Iglesia

Basque politics

• Basque nationalism
• Álava (Spanish Congress Electoral District)
• Gipuzkoa (Spanish Congress Electoral District)
• Navarre (Spanish Congress Electoral District)
• Biscay (Spanish Congress Electoral District)
• Some Basque parties: EAJ-PNV, PSE-EE, Batasuna, Euskal Herrietako Alderdi Komunista (duplicated as Communist Party of the Basque Homelands), Eusko Alkartasuna, Eusko Abertzale Ekintza, Abertzaleen Batasuna, Batzarre, Aralar, Nafarroa Bai, Euskadiko Ezkerra (defunct)
• Labour unions of the Basque Country: ELA-STV, LAB
• Historical Basque politicians: Sabino Arana, Pasionaria, Felix Likiniano, Federico Krutwig

Violence in the Basque Country

• ETA
• Minor Basque leftist armed groups: Comandos Autónomos Anticapitalistas, Iraultza, Iparretarrak
• Spanish unionist armed groups: GAL, Batallón Vasco Español

Basque diaspora

• Catalina de Erauso, cross-dressing conquistadora.
• Lope de Aguirre

Basque music

• Typical Basque instruments: Txalaparta, Alboka, Trikitixa, Kirikoketa, Xirula, Ttun-ttun, Txistu
• Basque rock: Kortatu, Negu Gorriak, Barricada, La Polla Records, B.A.P.!!, Berri Txarrak
• Kepa Junkera
• Luis Mariano
• Pablo de Sarasate

Featured content

None yet

Good articles

• Burgos trials
• Athletic Bilbao in European football
• Erromintxela

New articles

Please feel free to list your new Basque-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page.

• Recently created: Francisco Javier Lopez Pena, Jaurerria, Basque surnames, Sagardotegi, Joanes Leizarraga, Roncal Valley

Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

• Can someone review the Category of People of Basque descent. Half of the people there (not the ones in the subcategories) are of un sourced Basque descent, furthermore, most of them are Peruvian members of congress, whose article barely has their name, let alone any show of proof there are of near Basque if only a trace of an illusionised idea of European descent by some Basque-loving Wikipedia user. If the WikiProject Basque wishes to keep their categories clean and trustworthy they need to clean that up. PS: Had no idea where to bring this to your attention so yeah.

Assessment

The page was a conciliatory measure to enable us to clean up the list of Basques, which was more important. AFAIK there are only people on the list currently where their own Wiki Bio mentions Basque ancestry. Or has someone sneaked some of the old ones back? Akerbeltz (talk) 19:27, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Templates

• {{WikiProject Basque}} – this template should be added to the talk pages of all articles within the scope of the project.

Resources

• Album Siglo XIX. Mendeko Albuma. Pictures of Basque themes from the 19th century in quite high resolutions. The licence is stated as Creative Commons-BY-NC-SA-ES 2.5, but, since the pictures are old, it probably could cover only the texts unless law takes scanning as a creative process.
• 19th Century´s military history in the Basque Country, from the Zumalakarregi Museum.
• Auñamendi Encyclopedia, encyclopedia of Basque subjects in Spanish, original editions by Bernardo Estornés Lasa. Many entries updated.
• Biblioteca Sancho el Sabio. Old books on Basque subjects scanned as heavy JPEG images.
• Morris Student Plus. Basque <-> English dictionary for students.
• eusref.net. Basque Bibliography in English and German.

Related projects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Ethnic groups
• Portal: Portal:Basque

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.