Scots Wikipedia

The Scots Wikipedia (Scots: Wikipædia) 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 June 2020, it has about 57,000 articles.[1] The Scots Wikipedia is one of eight Wikipedias written in an Anglic language or English-based pidgin/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, and the Sranan Tongo Wikipedia.

Not to be confused with Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia. For the Wikipedia in Scottish English, see English Wikipedia.
Scots Wikipedia
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Type of site
Internet encyclopedia project
Available inScots
HeadquartersMiami, Florida
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
URLsco.wikipedia.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional

Reception

By February 2008, the site contained 2,200 articles,[2] and had already outpaced other Wikipedias, such as 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,"[3] while Ted Brocklebank, culture spokesman for the Scottish Tories, described it as a "cheap attempt at creating a language."[3] However, Dr 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."[3] And Jane C Hu of Slate.com describes how it is regarded as a "joke" by some and goes on to debate whether Scots is really its own language or just a dialect of English, and therefore whether someone who proposed to delete the Wikipedia because it was a "joke project" was right or not.[4]

See also

References
  1. "List of Wikipedias". meta.wikimedia.org. Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 15 March 2014.
  2. "Learnin's jist a wee click awa". Daily Mirror. 25 February 2008. Retrieved 31 July 2012.  – via HighBeam Research (subscription required)
  3. Horne, Marc (24 February 2008). "Scots finds home on gey muckle website". Scotland on Sunday. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  4. Jane C. Hu (5 August 2014). "The Free Enclopaedia That Awbody Can Eedit: Scots Wikipedia Is No Joke". slate.com. Retrieved 20 October 2015.

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