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Remember a week ago when the news broke in Reddit that much of Scots Wikipedia had been written by one admin, an American teenager who couldn't speak Scots? A lot has happened in a week. https://www.reddit.com/r/Scotland/comments/ig9jia/ive_discovered_that_almost_every_single_article/
1. The Scots Language Centre ( @scotslanguage) have offered to help coordinate a response, bringing together Wikipedians and Scots speakers to rewrite the articles. https://www.scotslanguage.com/news/5724
2. There's now a Facebook group of nearly 100 people including @lirazelf, mostly Scots speakers, who are furiously organising and running training sessions for Scots Wiki-newbies and pointing Wikipedians to Scots-language courses. https://www.facebook.com/groups/357351445642702
3. In less than a week they'd organised an edit-a-thon, with online Zoom training, and made over 3000 edits to Scots Wikipedia.
https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:E_Scots_Leed_Editathon_August_2020
https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:E_Scots_Leed_Editathon_August_2020
4. Interest in Scots Wikipedia is through the roof, site pageviews have spiked, and it's possible this is the best thing that's ever happened to sco.wikipedia. And incidentally all the coverage has raised awareness of Scots as a vibrant language, not just a "dialect of English".
So what started as a "look, Wikipedia #FAIL, haha" in the media, and harassment of a teenager who didn't know any better, led to the formation of a keen volunteer community and a partnership with an official language-revival body. Great to see. /end https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-us-teenager-wrote-huge-slice-of-scots-wikipedia
