Scots Wikipedia

Not to be confused with Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia. For the Wikipedia in Scottish English, see English Wikipedia.
Scots Wikipedia
Type of site
 Internet encyclopedia project
Available in Scots
Headquarters Miami, Florida
Owner Wikimedia Foundation
Website sco.wikipedia.org
Commercial No
Registration Optional

The Scots Wikipedia (Scots: Scots Wikipaedia) 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 December 2016, it has about 42,000 articles.[1] The Scots Wikipedia is one of five Wikipedias written in an Anglic language, the others being the English Wikipedia, the Simple English Wikipedia, the Pitkern-Norfuk Wikipedia and the Old English Wikipedia, although the last is largely unintelligible to native English or Scots speakers.

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 2012-07-31.  – via HighBeam Research (subscription required)
  3. 1 2 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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