Not to be confused with Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia.
Scots Wikipedia
Logo of the Scots Wikipedia
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Type of site
Internet encyclopaedia
Available in
Scots
Owner
Wikimedia Foundation
URL
sco.wikipedia.org
Commercial
No
Registration
Optional
Users
109,514 users, 3 administrators as of 28 April 2024
Launched
23 June 2005; 18 years ago (2005-06-23)
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 April 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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