Wikipedia:WikiProject Basque

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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

• Build up an excellent Basque Portal (see also: Basque Portal (draft))
• 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.

Contents 1 Guidelines 2 Open tasks 3 Members 4 Userbox 5 Portal 6 Articles 6.1 Basque people 6.2 Basque Country (historical territory) 6.3 History and Prehistory 6.4 Basque law 6.5 Basque language 6.6 Basque Literature 6.7 Basque culture 6.8 Basque Christianity 6.9 Basque politics 6.9.1 Violence in the Basque Country 6.10 Basque diaspora 6.11 Basque music 6.12 Featured content 6.12.1 Candidates 6.13 New articles 6.14 Collaboration and review 7 Templates 8 Categories 9 Resources 9.1 Related projects

[edit] Guidelines

/Basque toponyms (under discussion)

[edit] Open tasks

edit · history · watch · refresh  To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Basque:

Here are some tasks you can do: Requests: Political parties in the Basque Country, Basque Parliament election, 2001, Basque navigation, Basques in Newfoundland, Compañía Guipuzcoana de Caracas Cleanup: List of Basques (having a Basque surname doesn't seem enough to be Basque, separate native Basques from diaspora Basques maybe.), Olentzero No references Expand: Basque dance Stubs: Convergencia Demócratica de Navarra, Partido Socialista de Navarra, Partido Popular del País Vasco, Ezker Batua, Izquierda Mirandesa NPOV: Lope de Aguirre

[edit] Members

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

1. Sugaar (particularly interested in prehistory, history and old Basque religion)
2. Húsönd (language, geography, history)
3. A R King (language, general knowledge)
4. Martín (saying/doing) (geography, cuisine, culture)
5. David (saying/doing) (geography, history, transport)
6. Damienguerra (Language, History, Culture)
7. Joe (History, Basque-American Culture)
8. Balino-Antimod (topic of choice: Basque terrorists hiding out in Mexico and sought by Spanish Justice)
9. MirenBerasategi
10. Madler (Language, history)
11. Codu - the struggle for an independant Basque contry.
12. Kabri - Administrator of Basque wikipedia.
13. Wiki Raja
14. Euskera
15. Jouandediu (Living in Xiberoa, discovering the past by restoring an old house)
16. Vintagekits
17. T Rex | talk
18. escorial82 (violence)
19. French Tourist Geographical history, mostly for Northern Basque country - I have good access to sources in French, which might be useful for the project
20. Scootermclean (Lived in Vitoria-Gasteiz, general interest in all aspects of Basque culture)
21. Janfri (Basque guy, administrator in the Basque wikipedia, not very active in the English one, but ready to answer whatever questions they might occur in the wikiproject)
22. Chrille5511 basque pelota
23. Txalapartari (Learning Euskara, general interest in all aspects of Basque culture, active in the German wiktionary)
24. Iñaki LL (interested in history, languages, music, geography and culture)
25. Akerbeltz (Euskaldun berria, linguist, interest in most aspects of Basque culture)
26. # Jhangora (Megaliths,Mountains,Music)
27. # Lihaas (ETA, etc)

[edit] Userbox

WikiProject Basque Userbox for those who like userboxes.
Add: {{User:Husond/Userboxes/WikiProject Basque}}

Which will generate:

Or: {{User:Sugaar/Userboxes/Wikiproject Basque}}

Which will generate:

Or: {{User WP Basque}}

which will generate:

[edit] Portal

Basque Portal It needs your help.

[edit] Articles

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

[edit] Basque people

• List of Basques

[edit] Basque Country (historical territory)

• Northern Basque Country: Labourd, Lower Navarre,Soule
• Navarre
• Western Basque Country: Araba, Biscay, Guipuscoa
• Major cities of the Basque Country: Bayonne, Bilbao, Donostia, Pamplona, Vitoria-Gasteiz

[edit] History and Prehistory

• History of the Basque people - main article
• Franco-Cantabrian region
• Tribes: Aquitani, Vascones, Varduli, Caristii, Autrigones
• Roman period: Iruña-Veleia
• Duchy of Vasconia: Duke of Gascony
• Kingdom of Navarre: List of Navarrese monarchs
• Lord of Biscay
• Juan Sebastián de Elcano
• Carlist Wars
• 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}}

[edit] Basque law

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

[edit] Basque language

• Basque language
• Aquitanian language
• Basque dialects: Bizkaiera, Gipuzkera, Lapurtera, Goi Nafarrera, Behe Nafarrera, Xiberuera
• Standard Basque
• Earliest Basque texts: Iruña-Veleia
• Basque exonyms
• Erromintxela

[edit] Basque Literature

• Bernard Etxepare
• Juan Antonio Mogel
• Pedro Agerre
• Agustin Xaho
• Bernardo Atxaga
• Kirmen Uribe

[edit] Basque culture

• Basque symbols: Lauburu, Ikurriña, Arrano Beltza
• Pilota (see also Jai Alai)
• Basque cuisine
• Basque music
• Bertsolaritza (song/poem contests)
• Basque mythology: Mari (goddess), Sugaar, Urtzi, Lamiak, Jentilak, Sorginak
• Basque cinema: Álex de la Iglesia
• Euskal Telebista

[edit] Basque Christianity

• Ignatius Loyola
• Francis Xavier
• Pedro Arrupe
• University of Deusto
• Basilica of Begoña

[edit] Basque politics

• Basque nationalism
• Álava (Spanish Congress Electoral District)
• Guipúzcoa (Spanish Congress Electoral District)
• Navarra (Spanish Congress Electoral District)
• Vizcaya (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

[edit] Violence in the Basque Country

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

[edit] Basque diaspora

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

[edit] 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, Peiremans
• Kepa Junkera
• Luis Mariano
• Pablo de Sarasate

[edit] Featured content

None yet

[edit] Candidates

None yet

[edit] 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 and Joanes Leizarraga

[edit] 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 their 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)

[edit] Templates

• Template:WikiProject Basque: this template should be added to the talk pages of all articles within the scope of the project.

BasqueWikipedia:WikiProject BasqueTemplate:WikiProject BasqueBasque articles		WikiProject Basque
	Basque portal v • d • e This article is within the scope of WikiProject Basque, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Basque people, Basque Country, Basque language, history and culture on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.

To add the template type: {{WikiProject Basque}}

• Template Portal:Basque : this template should be added to the See also sections of all articles within the scope of the project. To add this template type: {{portal|Basque}}

[edit] Categories

• Category:Basque
• Category:WikiProject Basque

[edit] 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 militar 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.

[edit] Related projects

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