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<div>{{Use Scottish English|date=November 2020}}<br />
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}}<br />
{{short description|Scots language version of Wikipedia}}<br />
{{distinguish|Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia}}<br />
{{Infobox website<br />
| name = {{Wiki favicon}} Scots Wikipedia<br />
| logo = Wikipedia-logo-v2-sco.svg<br />
| logo_size = 85%<br />
| logo_caption = Logo of the Scots Wikipedia<br />
| url = [//sco.wikipedia.org/ sco.wikipedia.org]<br />
| screenshot = Scots Wikipedia main page screenshot, 15.12.2013.png<br />
| screenshot_alt = The homepage of the Scots Wikipedia<br />
| collapsible = yes<br />
| commercial = No<br />
| location = [[Miami, Florida|Miami]], Florida<br />
| type = [[Internet encyclopedia|Internet encyclopaedia]]<br />
| num_users = {{NUMBEROF|USERS|sco|N}} users, {{NUMBEROF|ADMINS|sco}} administrators as of {{Date}}<br />
| language = [[Scots language|Scots]]<br />
| registration = Optional<br />
| owner = [[Wikimedia Foundation]]<br />
| content_license = {{nobr|[[Creative Commons licenses|Creative Commons Attribution/<br />Share-Alike]] 3.0}} (most text also dual-licensed under [[GFDL]])<br />
}}<br />
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The '''Scots Wikipedia''' ({{lang-sco|Wikipædia}}{{efn|Pronunciation varies between {{IPA-sco|wikipedia|}} and {{IPA-sco|wʌkipedia|}}, see [[Modern Scots#Phonology]].}}) is the [[Scots language]] version of [[Wikipedia]], and is run by the [[Wikimedia Foundation]]. It was established on 23 June 2005, and first reached 1,000 articles in February 2006, and 5,000 articles in November 2010. As of {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}, it has about {{formatnum:{{#expr:{{NUMBEROF|ARTICLES|sco}} round -3}}}} [[encyclopedia article|articles]].<ref name="Meta">{{cite web |title=List of Wikipedias |url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias |work=meta.wikimedia.org |publisher=[[Wikimedia Foundation]] |access-date=15 March 2014 |archive-date=25 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625035830/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias |url-status=live}}</ref> The Scots Wikipedia is one of eight Wikipedias written in an [[Anglic languages|Anglic language]] or English-based [[pidgin]]/[[Creole language|creole]], the others being the [[English Wikipedia]], the [[Simple English Wikipedia]], the [[Old English Wikipedia]], the [[Pitkern language|Pitkern-Norfuk]] Wikipedia, the [[Tok Pisin]] Wikipedia, the [[Jamaican Patois]] Wikipedia, and the [[Sranan Tongo]] Wikipedia.<br />
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In August 2020, the wiki received scrutiny from the media for the poor quality of the Scots writing in many of its articles, and for the discovery that at least 20,000 articles had been written by an individual who did not actually speak the language. This attention led to a review of the wiki's content by Scots speakers as well as editors from [[Wikipedia]]'s wider community.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Harrison|first=Stephen|date=2020-09-09|title=What Happens to Scots Wikipedia Now?|url=https://slate.com/technology/2020/09/scots-wikipedia-language-american-teenager.html|access-date=2020-10-11|website=Slate Magazine|language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Reception ==<br />
By February 2008, the site contained 2,200 articles<ref>{{cite news |title=Learnin's jist a wee click awa |date=25 February 2008 |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-175269362.html |work=[[Daily Mirror]] |access-date=2012-07-31 |archive-date=11 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611094834/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-175269362.html |url-status=dead}}{{subscription required|via=[[HighBeam Research]]}}</ref> and had outpaced [[Maori Wikipedia]] and [[Kashmiri Wikipedia]]. Reported reception, however, was mixed, with ''[[Scotland on Sunday]]'''s literary editor describing it as "convoluted at best, and an absolute parody at worst,"<ref name="scotsun">{{cite news |last=Horne |first=Marc |url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/scots-finds-home-on-gey-muckle-website-1-1430165 |title=Scots finds home on gey muckle website |work=[[Scotland on Sunday]] |date=24 February 2008 |access-date=30 April 2016 |archive-date=1 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160601180341/http://www.scotsman.com/news/scots-finds-home-on-gey-muckle-website-1-1430165 |url-status=live}}</ref> while [[Ted Brocklebank]], culture spokesman for the [[Scottish Conservative Party|Scottish Tories]], described it as a "cheap attempt at creating a language."<ref name="scotsun" /> However, Chris Robinson, director of the ''[[Dictionary of the Scots Language]]'', spoke more positively of the site, noting: "The fact it is doing well gives a lie to all those people who decry Scots and try to do it down."<ref name="scotsun" /> In 2014, Jane C. Hu of [[Slate.com]] described the site as reading "like a transcription of a person with a [[Scottish accent]]", and said one Wikipedia editor had [[m:Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Scots Wikipedia|proposed that the project be closed]], in the mistaken belief that it was a practical joke.<ref>{{cite web |URL=http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/08/05/despite_disputes_over_whether_scots_is_separate_language_or_dialect_of_english.html |title=The Free Enclopaedia That Awbody Can Eedit: Scots Wikipedia Is No Joke |author=Jane C. Hu |website=slate.com |access-date=20 October 2015 |date=5 August 2014 |archive-date=3 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151103032207/http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/08/05/despite_disputes_over_whether_scots_is_separate_language_or_dialect_of_english.html |url-status=live}}</ref><br />
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== Controversy ==<br />
In August 2020, the site attracted attention after a [[Reddit]] post noted that the project contained an unusually high number of articles written by a single prolific contributor who is not fluent in the Scots language, writing without using genuine Scots idioms or grammatical structure and assumed to be using an online English-Scots dictionary to crudely translate English Wikipedia article segments. Over 23,000 articles, approximately a third of the entire Wikipedia at that time, were created by this American teenager, most of which having been variously described as "English written in a Scottish accent" and "very odd" to abject gibberish with nonsensical words and spellings not present in any Scots dialect.<ref>{{cite news |last=Song |first=Victoria |date=August 25, 2020 |title=Alleged Teen Brony Has Filled the Scots Wiki With Thousands of Fake Translations [Update: Confirmed Teen, No Longer Brony] |url=https://gizmodo.com/alleged-teen-brony-has-filled-the-scots-wiki-with-thous-1844845086 |work=Gizmodo |access-date=August 25, 2020 |archive-date=26 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200826015917/https://gizmodo.com/alleged-teen-brony-has-filled-the-scots-wiki-with-thous-1844845086 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="inews">{{cite web |last1=McDonald |first1=Karl |title=Scots Wikipedia taken over by American teenager who wrote thousands of 'very odd' articles without learning language |url=https://inews.co.uk/news/scotland/scots-wikipedia-language-articles-native-speaker-mistakes-610689 |website=[[I (newspaper)|inews.co.uk]] |access-date=26 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200826132225/https://inews.co.uk/news/scotland/scots-wikipedia-language-articles-native-speaker-mistakes-610689 |archive-date=26 August 2020 |language=en |date=26 August 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="verdict">{{cite web |url=https://www.verdict.co.uk/scots-wikipedia-gibberish/ |title=Majority of Scots Wikipedia articles are gibberish due to single prolific editor<br />
|last=Ingham |first=Lucy |date=26 August 2020 |website=Verdict |access-date=1 February 2021 |archive-date=19 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919162035/https://www.verdict.co.uk/scots-wikipedia-gibberish/ |language=en |url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Let's not mention any specifics about the editor in question, who is a teenager, and the problem is clearly systematic here anyway. --> The incident was described as "a huge failure on [[Wikimedia]]’s part", with specific criticisms placed on Wikipedia's "labyrinthine back-end system" and a lack of coordination across smaller Wiki projects.<ref name="inews" /><br />
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[[Robert McColl Millar]], the Chair in [[Linguistics]] and Scottish Language at the [[University of Aberdeen]], said that the affected articles displayed "a very limited knowledge both of [[Modern Scots]] and its earlier manifestations".<ref name="inews" /> Michael Dempster, director of the [[Scots Language Centre]], contacted the Wikimedia Foundation over the possibility of building upon the Scots Wikipedia's existing infrastructure, describing the renewed interest in the site as having "potential to be a great online focus" for the Scots language.<ref name="Brooks Hern 2020">{{cite web |title=Shock an aw: US teenager wrote huge slice of Scots Wikipedia |website=[[The Guardian]] |date=26 August 2020 |url=http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-us-teenager-wrote-huge-slice-of-scots-wikipedia |access-date=26 August 2020 |last1=Brooks |first1=Libby |last2=Hern |first2=Alex}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[List of Wikipedias]]<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
{{notelist}}<br />
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== References ==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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== External links ==<br />
{{InterWiki|code=sco}}<br />
* {{in lang|sco}} [//sco.wikipedia.org/ Scots Wikipedia]<br />
* [http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaSCO.htm Statistics for Scots Wikipedia] by Erik Zachte.<br />
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{{Anglo-Frisian Wikipedias}}<br />
{{Wikipedias}}<br />
{{Authority control}}<br />
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[[Category:Wikipedias by language]]<br />
[[Category:Internet properties established in 2005]]<br />
[[Category:Scots language|Wikipedia]]<br />
[[Category:Scottish encyclopedias]]<br />
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<div>{{Use Scottish English|date=November 2020}}<br />
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}}<br />
{{short description|Scots language version of Wikipedia}}<br />
{{distinguish|Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia}}<br />
{{Infobox website<br />
| name = {{Wiki favicon}} Scots Wikipedia<br />
| logo = Wikipedia-logo-v2-sco.svg<br />
| logo_size = 85%<br />
| logo_caption = Logo of the Scots Wikipedia<br />
| url = [//sco.wikipedia.org/ sco.wikipedia.org]<br />
| screenshot = Scots Wikipedia main page screenshot, 15.12.2013.png<br />
| screenshot_alt = The homepage of the Scots Wikipedia<br />
| collapsible = yes<br />
| commercial = No<br />
| location = [[Miami, Florida|Miami]], Florida<br />
| type = [[Internet encyclopedia|Internet encyclopaedia]]<br />
| num_users = {{NUMBEROF|USERS|sco|N}} users, {{NUMBEROF|ADMINS|sco}} administrators as of {{Date}}<br />
| language = [[Scots language|Scots]]<br />
| registration = Optional<br />
| owner = [[Wikimedia Foundation]]<br />
| content_license = {{nobr|[[Creative Commons licenses|Creative Commons Attribution/<br />Share-Alike]] 3.0}} (most text also dual-licensed under [[GFDL]])<br />
}}<br />
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The '''Scots Wikipedia''' ({{lang-sco|Wikipædia}}{{efn|Pronunciation varies between {{IPA-sco|wikipedia|}} and {{IPA-sco|wʌkipedia|}}, see [[Modern Scots#Phonology]].}}) is the [[Scots language]] version of [[Wikipedia]], and is run by the [[Wikimedia Foundation]]. It was established on 23 June 2005, and first reached 1,000 articles in February 2006, and 5,000 articles in November 2010. As of {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}, it has about {{formatnum:{{#expr:{{NUMBEROF|ARTICLES|sco}} round -3}}}} [[encyclopedia article|articles]].<ref name="Meta">{{cite web |title=List of Wikipedias |url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias |work=meta.wikimedia.org |publisher=[[Wikimedia Foundation]] |access-date=15 March 2014 |archive-date=25 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625035830/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias |url-status=live}}</ref> The Scots Wikipedia is one of eight Wikipedias written in an [[Anglic languages|Anglic language]] or English-based [[pidgin]]/[[Creole language|creole]], the others being the [[English Wikipedia]], the [[Simple English Wikipedia]], the [[Old English Wikipedia]], the [[Pitkern language|Pitkern-Norfuk]] Wikipedia, the [[Tok Pisin]] Wikipedia, the [[Jamaican Patois]] Wikipedia, and the [[Sranan Tongo]] Wikipedia.<br />
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In August 2020, the wiki received scrutiny from the media for the poor quality of the Scots writing in many of its articles, and for the discovery that at least 20,000 articles had been written by an individual who did not actually speak the language. This attention led to a review of the wiki's content by Scots speakers as well as editors from [[Wikipedia]]'s wider community.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Harrison|first=Stephen|date=2020-09-09|title=What Happens to Scots Wikipedia Now?|url=https://slate.com/technology/2020/09/scots-wikipedia-language-american-teenager.html|access-date=2020-10-11|website=Slate Magazine|language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Reception ==<br />
By February 2008, the site contained 2,200 articles<ref>{{cite news |title=Learnin's jist a wee click awa |date=25 February 2008 |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-175269362.html |work=[[Daily Mirror]] |access-date=2012-07-31 |archive-date=11 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611094834/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-175269362.html |url-status=dead}}{{subscription required|via=[[HighBeam Research]]}}</ref> and had outpaced [[Maori Wikipedia]] and [[Kashmiri Wikipedia]]. Reported reception, however, was mixed, with ''[[Scotland on Sunday]]'''s literary editor describing it as "convoluted at best, and an absolute parody at worst,"<ref name="scotsun">{{cite news |last=Horne |first=Marc |url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/scots-finds-home-on-gey-muckle-website-1-1430165 |title=Scots finds home on gey muckle website |work=[[Scotland on Sunday]] |date=24 February 2008 |access-date=30 April 2016 |archive-date=1 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160601180341/http://www.scotsman.com/news/scots-finds-home-on-gey-muckle-website-1-1430165 |url-status=live}}</ref> while [[Ted Brocklebank]], culture spokesman for the [[Scottish Conservative Party|Scottish Tories]], described it as a "cheap attempt at creating a language."<ref name="scotsun" /> However, Chris Robinson, director of the ''[[Dictionary of the Scots Language]]'', spoke more positively of the site, noting: "The fact it is doing well gives a lie to all those people who decry Scots and try to do it down."<ref name="scotsun" /> In 2014, Jane C. Hu of [[Slate.com]] described the site as reading "like a transcription of a person with a [[Scottish accent]]", and said one Wikipedia editor had [[m:Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Scots Wikipedia|proposed that the project be closed]], in the mistaken belief that it was a practical joke.<ref>{{cite web |URL=http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/08/05/despite_disputes_over_whether_scots_is_separate_language_or_dialect_of_english.html |title=The Free Enclopaedia That Awbody Can Eedit: Scots Wikipedia Is No Joke |author=Jane C. Hu |website=slate.com |access-date=20 October 2015 |date=5 August 2014 |archive-date=3 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151103032207/http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/08/05/despite_disputes_over_whether_scots_is_separate_language_or_dialect_of_english.html |url-status=live}}</ref><br />
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== Controversy ==<br />
In August 2020, the site attracted attention after a [[Reddit]] post noted that the project contained an unusually high number of articles written by a single prolific contributor who is not fluent in the Scots language, writing without using genuine Scots idioms or grammatical structure and assumed to be using an online English-Scots dictionary to crudely translate English Wikipedia article segments. Over 23,000 articles, approximately a third of the entire Wikipedia at that time, were created by this American teenager, most of which having been variously described as "English written in a Scottish accent" and "very odd" to abject gibberish with nonsensical words and spellings not present in any Scots dialect.<ref>{{cite news |last=Song |first=Victoria |date=August 25, 2020 |title=Alleged Teen Brony Has Filled the Scots Wiki With Thousands of Fake Translations [Update: Confirmed Teen, No Longer Brony] |url=https://gizmodo.com/alleged-teen-brony-has-filled-the-scots-wiki-with-thous-1844845086 |work=Gizmodo |access-date=August 25, 2020 |archive-date=26 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200826015917/https://gizmodo.com/alleged-teen-brony-has-filled-the-scots-wiki-with-thous-1844845086 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="inews">{{cite web |last1=McDonald |first1=Karl |title=Scots Wikipedia taken over by American teenager who wrote thousands of 'very odd' articles without learning language |url=https://inews.co.uk/news/scotland/scots-wikipedia-language-articles-native-speaker-mistakes-610689 |website=[[I (newspaper)|inews.co.uk]] |access-date=26 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200826132225/https://inews.co.uk/news/scotland/scots-wikipedia-language-articles-native-speaker-mistakes-610689 |archive-date=26 August 2020 |language=en |date=26 August 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="verdict">{{cite web |url=https://www.verdict.co.uk/scots-wikipedia-gibberish/ |title=Majority of Scots Wikipedia articles are gibberish due to single prolific editor<br />
|last=Ingham |first=Lucy |date=26 August 2021 |website=Verdict |access-date=1 February 2021 |archive-date=19 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919162035/https://www.verdict.co.uk/scots-wikipedia-gibberish/ |language=en |url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Let's not mention any specifics about the editor in question, who is a teenager, and the problem is clearly systematic here anyway. --> The incident was described as "a huge failure on [[Wikimedia]]’s part", with specific criticisms placed on Wikipedia's "labyrinthine back-end system" and a lack of coordination across smaller Wiki projects.<ref name="inews" /><br />
<br />
[[Robert McColl Millar]], the Chair in [[Linguistics]] and Scottish Language at the [[University of Aberdeen]], said that the affected articles displayed "a very limited knowledge both of [[Modern Scots]] and its earlier manifestations".<ref name="inews" /> Michael Dempster, director of the [[Scots Language Centre]], contacted the Wikimedia Foundation over the possibility of building upon the Scots Wikipedia's existing infrastructure, describing the renewed interest in the site as having "potential to be a great online focus" for the Scots language.<ref name="Brooks Hern 2020">{{cite web |title=Shock an aw: US teenager wrote huge slice of Scots Wikipedia |website=[[The Guardian]] |date=26 August 2020 |url=http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-us-teenager-wrote-huge-slice-of-scots-wikipedia |access-date=26 August 2020 |last1=Brooks |first1=Libby |last2=Hern |first2=Alex}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[List of Wikipedias]]<br />
<br />
== Notes ==<br />
{{notelist}}<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
{{InterWiki|code=sco}}<br />
* {{in lang|sco}} [//sco.wikipedia.org/ Scots Wikipedia]<br />
* [http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaSCO.htm Statistics for Scots Wikipedia] by Erik Zachte.<br />
<br />
{{Anglo-Frisian Wikipedias}}<br />
{{Wikipedias}}<br />
{{Authority control}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Wikipedias by language]]<br />
[[Category:Internet properties established in 2005]]<br />
[[Category:Scots language|Wikipedia]]<br />
[[Category:Scottish encyclopedias]]<br />
[[Category:Wikipedia controversies]]</div>51.37.62.75https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scotssprachige_Wikipedia&diff=252837035Scotssprachige Wikipedia2021-02-01T15:12:04Z<p>51.37.62.75: Undid revision 1004094980 by Expertmemer (talk): Claim not cited in the sources, various other websites and discussion forums mentioned this over the years and it didn't get mainstream coverage until the reddit post, not the 4chan post that came earlier.</p>
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<div>{{Use Scottish English|date=November 2020}}<br />
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}}<br />
{{short description|Scots language version of Wikipedia}}<br />
{{distinguish|Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia}}<br />
{{Infobox website<br />
| name = {{Wiki favicon}} Scots Wikipedia<br />
| logo = Wikipedia-logo-v2-sco.svg<br />
| logo_size = 85%<br />
| logo_caption = Logo of the Scots Wikipedia<br />
| url = [//sco.wikipedia.org/ sco.wikipedia.org]<br />
| screenshot = Scots Wikipedia main page screenshot, 15.12.2013.png<br />
| screenshot_alt = The homepage of the Scots Wikipedia<br />
| collapsible = yes<br />
| commercial = No<br />
| location = [[Miami, Florida|Miami]], Florida<br />
| type = [[Internet encyclopedia|Internet encyclopaedia]]<br />
| num_users = {{NUMBEROF|USERS|sco|N}} users, {{NUMBEROF|ADMINS|sco}} administrators as of {{Date}}<br />
| language = [[Scots language|Scots]]<br />
| registration = Optional<br />
| owner = [[Wikimedia Foundation]]<br />
| content_license = {{nobr|[[Creative Commons licenses|Creative Commons Attribution/<br />Share-Alike]] 3.0}} (most text also dual-licensed under [[GFDL]])<br />
}}<br />
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The '''Scots Wikipedia''' ({{lang-sco|Wikipædia}}{{efn|Pronunciation varies between {{IPA-sco|wikipedia|}} and {{IPA-sco|wʌkipedia|}}, see [[Modern Scots#Phonology]].}}) is the [[Scots language]] version of [[Wikipedia]], and is run by the [[Wikimedia Foundation]]. It was established on 23 June 2005, and first reached 1,000 articles in February 2006, and 5,000 articles in November 2010. As of {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}, it has about {{formatnum:{{#expr:{{NUMBEROF|ARTICLES|sco}} round -3}}}} [[encyclopedia article|articles]].<ref name="Meta">{{cite web |title=List of Wikipedias |url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias |work=meta.wikimedia.org |publisher=[[Wikimedia Foundation]] |access-date=15 March 2014 |archive-date=25 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625035830/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias |url-status=live}}</ref> The Scots Wikipedia is one of eight Wikipedias written in an [[Anglic languages|Anglic language]] or English-based [[pidgin]]/[[Creole language|creole]], the others being the [[English Wikipedia]], the [[Simple English Wikipedia]], the [[Old English Wikipedia]], the [[Pitkern language|Pitkern-Norfuk]] Wikipedia, the [[Tok Pisin]] Wikipedia, the [[Jamaican Patois]] Wikipedia, and the [[Sranan Tongo]] Wikipedia.<br />
<br />
In August 2020, the wiki received scrutiny from the media for the poor quality of the Scots writing in many of its articles, and for the discovery that at least 20,000 articles had been written by an individual who did not actually speak the language. This attention led to a review of the wiki's content by Scots speakers as well as editors from [[Wikipedia]]'s wider community.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Harrison|first=Stephen|date=2020-09-09|title=What Happens to Scots Wikipedia Now?|url=https://slate.com/technology/2020/09/scots-wikipedia-language-american-teenager.html|access-date=2020-10-11|website=Slate Magazine|language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Reception ==<br />
By February 2008, the site contained 2,200 articles<ref>{{cite news |title=Learnin's jist a wee click awa |date=25 February 2008 |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-175269362.html |work=[[Daily Mirror]] |access-date=2012-07-31 |archive-date=11 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611094834/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-175269362.html |url-status=dead}}{{subscription required|via=[[HighBeam Research]]}}</ref> and had outpaced [[Maori Wikipedia]] and [[Kashmiri Wikipedia]]. Reported reception, however, was mixed, with ''[[Scotland on Sunday]]'''s literary editor describing it as "convoluted at best, and an absolute parody at worst,"<ref name="scotsun">{{cite news |last=Horne |first=Marc |url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/scots-finds-home-on-gey-muckle-website-1-1430165 |title=Scots finds home on gey muckle website |work=[[Scotland on Sunday]] |date=24 February 2008 |access-date=30 April 2016 |archive-date=1 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160601180341/http://www.scotsman.com/news/scots-finds-home-on-gey-muckle-website-1-1430165 |url-status=live}}</ref> while [[Ted Brocklebank]], culture spokesman for the [[Scottish Conservative Party|Scottish Tories]], described it as a "cheap attempt at creating a language."<ref name="scotsun" /> However, Chris Robinson, director of the ''[[Dictionary of the Scots Language]]'', spoke more positively of the site, noting: "The fact it is doing well gives a lie to all those people who decry Scots and try to do it down."<ref name="scotsun" /> In 2014, Jane C. Hu of [[Slate.com]] described the site as reading "like a transcription of a person with a [[Scottish accent]]", and said one Wikipedia editor had [[m:Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Scots Wikipedia|proposed that the project be closed]], in the mistaken belief that it was a practical joke.<ref>{{cite web |URL=http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/08/05/despite_disputes_over_whether_scots_is_separate_language_or_dialect_of_english.html |title=The Free Enclopaedia That Awbody Can Eedit: Scots Wikipedia Is No Joke |author=Jane C. Hu |website=slate.com |access-date=20 October 2015 |date=5 August 2014 |archive-date=3 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151103032207/http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/08/05/despite_disputes_over_whether_scots_is_separate_language_or_dialect_of_english.html |url-status=live}}</ref><br />
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== Controversy ==<br />
In 2020, the site attracted attention after a [[Reddit]] post noted that the project contained an unusually high number of articles written by a single prolific contributor who is not fluent in the Scots language, writing without using genuine Scots idioms or grammatical structure and assumed to be using an online English-Scots dictionary to crudely translate English Wikipedia article segments. At least 20,000 articles were created by this American teenager.<ref>{{cite news |last=Song |first=Victoria |date=August 25, 2020 |title=Alleged Teen Brony Has Filled the Scots Wiki With Thousands of Fake Translations [Update: Confirmed Teen, No Longer Brony] |url=https://gizmodo.com/alleged-teen-brony-has-filled-the-scots-wiki-with-thous-1844845086 |work=Gizmodo |access-date=August 25, 2020 |archive-date=26 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200826015917/https://gizmodo.com/alleged-teen-brony-has-filled-the-scots-wiki-with-thous-1844845086 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="inews">{{cite web |last1=McDonald |first1=Karl |title=Scots Wikipedia taken over by American teenager who wrote thousands of 'very odd' articles without learning language |url=https://inews.co.uk/news/scotland/scots-wikipedia-language-articles-native-speaker-mistakes-610689 |website=[[I (newspaper)|inews.co.uk]] |access-date=26 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200826132225/https://inews.co.uk/news/scotland/scots-wikipedia-language-articles-native-speaker-mistakes-610689 |archive-date=26 August 2020 |language=en |date=26 August 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> <!-- Let's not mention any specifics about the editor in question, who is a teenager, and the problem is clearly systematic here anyway. --><br />
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[[Robert McColl Millar]], the Chair in [[Linguistics]] and Scottish Language at the [[University of Aberdeen]], said that the affected articles displayed "a very limited knowledge both of [[Modern Scots]] and its earlier manifestations".<ref name="inews" /> Michael Dempster, director of the [[Scots Language Centre]], contacted the Wikimedia Foundation over the possibility of building upon the Scots Wikipedia's existing infrastructure, describing the renewed interest in the site as having "potential to be a great online focus" for the Scots language.<ref name="Brooks Hern 2020">{{cite web |title=Shock an aw: US teenager wrote huge slice of Scots Wikipedia |website=[[The Guardian]] |date=26 August 2020 |url=http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-us-teenager-wrote-huge-slice-of-scots-wikipedia |access-date=26 August 2020 |last1=Brooks |first1=Libby |last2=Hern |first2=Alex}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[List of Wikipedias]]<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
{{notelist}}<br />
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== References ==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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== External links ==<br />
{{InterWiki|code=sco}}<br />
* {{in lang|sco}} [//sco.wikipedia.org/ Scots Wikipedia]<br />
* [http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaSCO.htm Statistics for Scots Wikipedia] by Erik Zachte.<br />
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{{Anglo-Frisian Wikipedias}}<br />
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[[Category:Wikipedias by language]]<br />
[[Category:Internet properties established in 2005]]<br />
[[Category:Scots language|Wikipedia]]<br />
[[Category:Scottish encyclopedias]]<br />
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<div>{{Use Scottish English|date=November 2020}}<br />
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}}<br />
{{short description|Scots language version of Wikipedia}}<br />
{{distinguish|Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia}}<br />
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| logo_size = 85%<br />
| logo_caption = Logo of the Scots Wikipedia<br />
| url = [//sco.wikipedia.org/ sco.wikipedia.org]<br />
| screenshot = Scots Wikipedia main page screenshot, 15.12.2013.png<br />
| screenshot_alt = The homepage of the Scots Wikipedia<br />
| collapsible = yes<br />
| commercial = No<br />
| location = [[Miami, Florida|Miami]], Florida<br />
| type = [[Internet encyclopedia|Internet encyclopaedia]]<br />
| num_users = {{NUMBEROF|USERS|sco|N}} users, {{NUMBEROF|ADMINS|sco}} administrators as of {{Date}}<br />
| language = [[Scots language|Scots]]<br />
| registration = Optional<br />
| owner = [[Wikimedia Foundation]]<br />
| content_license = {{nobr|[[Creative Commons licenses|Creative Commons Attribution/<br />Share-Alike]] 3.0}} (most text also dual-licensed under [[GFDL]])<br />
}}<br />
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The '''Scots Wikipedia''' ({{lang-sco|Wikipædia}}{{efn|Pronunciation varies between {{IPA-sco|wikipedia|}} and {{IPA-sco|wʌkipedia|}}, see [[Modern Scots#Phonology]].}}) is the [[Scots language]] version of [[Wikipedia]], and is run by the [[Wikimedia Foundation]]. It was established on 23 June 2005, and first reached 1,000 articles in February 2006, and 5,000 articles in November 2010. As of {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}, it has about {{formatnum:{{#expr:{{NUMBEROF|ARTICLES|sco}} round -3}}}} [[encyclopedia article|articles]].<ref name="Meta">{{cite web |title=List of Wikipedias |url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias |work=meta.wikimedia.org |publisher=[[Wikimedia Foundation]] |access-date=15 March 2014 |archive-date=25 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625035830/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias |url-status=live}}</ref> The Scots Wikipedia is one of eight Wikipedias written in an [[Anglic languages|Anglic language]] or English-based [[pidgin]]/[[Creole language|creole]], the others being the [[English Wikipedia]], the [[Simple English Wikipedia]], the [[Old English Wikipedia]], the [[Pitkern language|Pitkern-Norfuk]] Wikipedia, the [[Tok Pisin]] Wikipedia, the [[Jamaican Patois]] Wikipedia, and the [[Sranan Tongo]] Wikipedia.<br />
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In August 2020, the wiki received scrutiny from [[social media]] and news media for the poor quality of the Scots writing in many of its articles; it is currently undergoing review by both the larger Wikipedia community and speakers of Scots.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Harrison|first=Stephen|date=2020-09-09|title=What Happens to Scots Wikipedia Now?|url=https://slate.com/technology/2020/09/scots-wikipedia-language-american-teenager.html|access-date=2020-10-11|website=Slate Magazine|language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Reception ==<br />
By February 2008, the site contained 2,200 articles<ref>{{cite news |title=Learnin's jist a wee click awa |date=25 February 2008 |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-175269362.html |work=[[Daily Mirror]] |access-date=2012-07-31 |archive-date=11 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611094834/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-175269362.html |url-status=dead}}{{subscription required|via=[[HighBeam Research]]}}</ref> and had outpaced [[Maori Wikipedia]] and [[Kashmiri Wikipedia]]. Reported reception, however, was mixed, with ''[[Scotland on Sunday]]'''s literary editor describing it as "convoluted at best, and an absolute parody at worst,"<ref name="scotsun">{{cite news |last=Horne |first=Marc |url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/scots-finds-home-on-gey-muckle-website-1-1430165 |title=Scots finds home on gey muckle website |work=[[Scotland on Sunday]] |date=24 February 2008 |access-date=30 April 2016 |archive-date=1 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160601180341/http://www.scotsman.com/news/scots-finds-home-on-gey-muckle-website-1-1430165 |url-status=live}}</ref> while [[Ted Brocklebank]], culture spokesman for the [[Scottish Conservative Party|Scottish Tories]], described it as a "cheap attempt at creating a language."<ref name="scotsun" /> However, Chris Robinson, director of the ''[[Dictionary of the Scots Language]]'', spoke more positively of the site, noting: "The fact it is doing well gives a lie to all those people who decry Scots and try to do it down."<ref name="scotsun" /> In 2014, Jane C. Hu of [[Slate.com]] described the site as reading "like a transcription of a person with a [[Scottish accent]]", and said one Wikipedia editor had [[m:Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Scots Wikipedia|proposed that the project be closed]], in the mistaken belief that it was a practical joke.<ref>{{cite web |URL=http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/08/05/despite_disputes_over_whether_scots_is_separate_language_or_dialect_of_english.html |title=The Free Enclopaedia That Awbody Can Eedit: Scots Wikipedia Is No Joke |author=Jane C. Hu |website=slate.com |access-date=20 October 2015 |date=5 August 2014 |archive-date=3 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151103032207/http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/08/05/despite_disputes_over_whether_scots_is_separate_language_or_dialect_of_english.html |url-status=live}}</ref><br />
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== Controversy ==<br />
In 2020, the site attracted attention after a [[Reddit]] post noted that the project contained an unusually high number of articles written by a single prolific contributor who is not fluent in the Scots language, writing without using genuine Scots idioms or grammatical structure and assumed to be using an online English-Scots dictionary to crudely translate English Wikipedia article segments. At least 20,000 articles were created by this American teenager.<ref>{{cite news |last=Song |first=Victoria |date=August 25, 2020 |title=Alleged Teen Brony Has Filled the Scots Wiki With Thousands of Fake Translations [Update: Confirmed Teen, No Longer Brony] |url=https://gizmodo.com/alleged-teen-brony-has-filled-the-scots-wiki-with-thous-1844845086 |work=Gizmodo |access-date=August 25, 2020 |archive-date=26 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200826015917/https://gizmodo.com/alleged-teen-brony-has-filled-the-scots-wiki-with-thous-1844845086 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="inews">{{cite web |last1=McDonald |first1=Karl |title=Scots Wikipedia taken over by American teenager who wrote thousands of 'very odd' articles without learning language |url=https://inews.co.uk/news/scotland/scots-wikipedia-language-articles-native-speaker-mistakes-610689 |website=[[I (newspaper)|inews.co.uk]] |access-date=26 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200826132225/https://inews.co.uk/news/scotland/scots-wikipedia-language-articles-native-speaker-mistakes-610689 |archive-date=26 August 2020 |language=en |date=26 August 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> <!-- Let's not mention any specifics about the editor in question, who is a teenager, and the problem is clearly systematic here anyway. --><br />
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[[Robert McColl Millar]], the Chair in [[Linguistics]] and Scottish Language at the [[University of Aberdeen]], said that the affected articles displayed "a very limited knowledge both of [[Modern Scots]] and its earlier manifestations".<ref name="inews" /> Michael Dempster, director of the [[Scots Language Centre]], contacted the Wikimedia Foundation over the possibility of building upon the Scots Wikipedia's existing infrastructure, describing the renewed interest in the site as having "potential to be a great online focus" for the Scots language.<ref name="Brooks Hern 2020">{{cite web |title=Shock an aw: US teenager wrote huge slice of Scots Wikipedia |website=[[The Guardian]] |date=26 August 2020 |url=http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-us-teenager-wrote-huge-slice-of-scots-wikipedia |access-date=26 August 2020 |last1=Brooks |first1=Libby |last2=Hern |first2=Alex}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[List of Wikipedias]]<br />
<br />
== Notes ==<br />
{{notelist}}<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
{{InterWiki|code=sco}}<br />
* {{in lang|sco}} [//sco.wikipedia.org/ Scots Wikipedia]<br />
* [http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaSCO.htm Statistics for Scots Wikipedia] by Erik Zachte.<br />
<br />
{{Anglo-Frisian Wikipedias}}<br />
{{Wikipedias}}<br />
{{Authority control}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Wikipedias by language]]<br />
[[Category:Internet properties established in 2005]]<br />
[[Category:Scots language|Wikipedia]]<br />
[[Category:Scottish encyclopedias]]<br />
[[Category:Wikipedia controversies]]</div>51.37.62.75