Dear Wikimedians,

I want to share with you that the Basque Wikipedia is the fourth language (after English, Serbian and Catalan) to complete the expanded list of articles every Wikipedia should have. We have gone up 10 spots in the list of Wikipedias by expanded sample of articles (from 33^rd to 23^rd) and we think we will go up another couple of positions when the list is updated in January. You can plot the evolution in this graph I just made (there is a svg version, if someone wants to mark their language): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Euskarazko_Wikipediaren_sailkapena_2022an.png.

This year we decided to improve this list. We had a list of 1.324 articles to make, and all the other articles to improve, and we divided it by monthly writing contests. Each month a topic was chosen (January was for history, February for arts...) and we made an extra contest in December (ongoing) with the articles that weren't created in the previous 11 months. Each month three prizes were given, basically gift cards to buy in local book-stores across the Basque Country (this can be more difficult for geographically wider languages, but not impossible). The total budget for the competition was 2.750€, covered with the grant the Basque Government gives us every year.

Now we have other goals. The most important one is expanding the shortest articles, something easy to spot with a PetScan search. Yes, we also added all the articles to PagePiles and Wikidata, so it is easier to find missing topics in every language.

If you want to share our happiness, we are celebrating it on Twitter (https://twitter.com/euwikipedia/status/1607678841178427394), Mastodon (https://mastodon.eus/@euwikipedia/109585094213814278) and our blog (http://wikimedia.eus/2022/12/euskara-4-hizkuntza-wikipedia-guztiek-izan-beharreko-10-000-artikuluak-egiten/). Feel free to share our joy.

Best,

Galder Gonzalez

Basque Wikimedians User Group