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  1. Much of the Scottish-language version of Wikipedia is actually written by an American who doesn’t even speak the language — resulting in comically-bad entries that read like they came from Groundskeeper Willie on “The Simpsons,” according to a new report.
    nypost.com/2020/08/26/most-of-scottish-wikipedia-is-written-by-an-american-in-a-fake-accent/
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    Who is responsible for almost half of Wikipedia’s Scots entries?Now an American teenager – who does not speak Scots, the language of Robert Burns – has been revealed as responsible for almost half of the entries on the Scots language version of Wikipedia. In the middle ages, Scots was one of the great literary languages of the British Isles.
    www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-a…
    Why is Scots Wikipedia so bad?Ultach wrote in his viral posts that Scots Wikipedia was “legendarily bad” in part because AG did not understand Scots grammar or vocabulary. Whether or not the Scots Wikipedia project serves to delegitimize the Scots language has been a long-term concern. Turns out, AG had misused common elements of the Scots language like syne and an aw.
    slate.com/technology/2020/09/scots-wikipedia-language-…
    Is there a Scottish version of Wikipedia?Not to be confused with Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia. The Scots Wikipedia ( Scots: Wikipædia) is the Scots-language edition of the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. It was established on 23 June 2005, and it first reached 1,000 articles in February 2006, and 5,000 articles in November 2010. As of January 2022, it has about 40,000 articles.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_Wikipedia
    How many articles are on Scots Wikipedia?At present, there are nearly 58,000 articles on Scots Wikipedia compared with the more than 6 million articles on English Wikipedia. In relation to other language editions, Scots Wikipedia is often classified as a small wiki. But the public response to Ultach’s revelations about AG has been anything but small or minkie.
    slate.com/technology/2020/09/scots-wikipedia-language-…
  3. Shock an aw: US teenager wrote huge slice of Scots …

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/...

    Aug 26, 2020 · Now an American teenager – who does not speak Scots, the language of Robert Burns – has been revealed as responsible for almost half …

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    • https://qz.com/1896963/the-scots-wikipedia-page...

      Aug 27, 2020 · How a Scots Wikipedia scandal highlighted AI’s data problem. A Reddit user discovered that most articles aren’t written in Scots, raising …

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      • How a Scots Wikipedia scandal highlighted AI’s data problem

        https://finance.yahoo.com/news/scots-wikipedia...

        Aug 27, 2020 · The Scots Wikipedia is a rather unique example of a misguided editor dedicating a decade to writing out articles in what they believed to be (but absolutely was not) genuine …

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        • https://www.engadget.com/scots-wikipedia-230210674.html

          Aug 27, 2020 · Scots is an endangered language, and the Wikipedia community now needs to decide what to do with all the entries. Some have said the …

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          • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_Wikipedia

            The Scots Wikipedia (Scots: Scots Wikipaedia) is the Scots-language edition of the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. It was established on 23 June 2005, and it first reached 1,000 articles in February 2006, and 5,000 articles in November 2010. As of December 2022, it has about 40,000 articles. The Scots Wikipedia is one of eight Wikipedias written in an Anglic language or English-ba…

            • Available in: Scots
            • Launched: 23 June 2005; 17 years ago
          • https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/26/scots_wikipedia_fake

            Aug 26, 2020 · In an extraordinary and somewhat devastating discovery, it turns out virtually the entire Scots version of Wikipedia, comprising more than 57,000 articles, was written, edited or overseen by a netizen who clearly had nae the …

          • https://slate.com/technology/2020/09/scots...

            Cobra! is a 26-year-old based in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, who has actively edited Scots Wikipedia for about five years. “For a lot of my life, like many natives, I’ve had to suppress my ...

          • https://nypost.com/2020/08/26/most-of-scottish...

            Aug 26, 2020 · Och aye! Much of the Scottish-language version of Wikipedia is actually written by an American who doesn’t even speak the language — resulting in comically-bad entries that …

          • https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/mfy...

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          • https://www.reddit.com/r/Scotland/comments/ig9jia/...

            I don't think it's a good idea for people to just speak their local form of Scots because the most common form of Scots (the Strathclyde one) is also the one with arguably the greatest English influence, and so the only way to preserve …



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