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Type of site | Internet encyclopaedia |
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| Available in | Scots |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| URL | sco.wikipedia.org |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Users | 111,225 users, 3 administrators as of 22 July 2024 |
| Launched | 23 June 2005 |
Content license | Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 3.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) |
The Scots Wikipedia (Scots: Scots Wikipædia)[a] 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 July 2024, it has about 35,000 articles.[1] The Scots Wikipedia is one of the ten Wikipedias written in an Anglic language or English-based pidgin or creole, the others being the English Wikipedia, the Simple English Wikipedia, the Old English Wikipedia, the Pitkern-Norfuk Wikipedia, the Tok Pisin Wikipedia, the Jamaican Patois Wikipedia, the Sranan Tongo Wikipedia, the Nigerian Pidgin Wikipedia, and the Ghanaian Pidgin Wikipedia.
In August 2020, the wiki received scrutiny from the media for the poor quality of its Scots writing and the discovery that at least 20,000 articles had been written by an editor who did not speak the language. This attention led to a review of the wiki's content by Scots speakers as well as editors from the wider Wikipedia community.[2] Most of the editor's articles have been deleted, which is evident in the decrease in the total number of articles from about 55,000 in 2018[3] to about 40,000 in 2021.
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- ^ "List of Wikipedias". meta.wikimedia.org. Wikimedia Foundation. Archived from the original on 25 June 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2014.
- ^ Harrison, Stephen (9 September 2020). "What Happens to Scots Wikipedia Now?". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
- ^ "Wikipedia Statistics - Tables - Scots". stats.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 21 June 2021.