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& #39;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/">https://www.reddit.com/r/Scotlan...

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 ">https://www.scotslanguage.com/news/5724...

2. There& #39;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">https://www.facebook.com/groups/35...

3. In less than a week they& #39;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/Wiki...

4. Interest in Scots Wikipedia is through the roof, site pageviews have spiked, and it& #39;s possible this is the best thing that& #39;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& #39;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">https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2...