Scots Wikipedia

By February 2008, the site contained 2,200 articles and had outpaced Māori Wikipedia and Kashmiri Wikipedia. Reported reception, however, was mixed: Scotland on Sunday literary editor described it as "convoluted at best, and an absolute parody at worst", while Ted Brocklebank, culture spokesman for the Scottish Tories, described it as a "cheap attempt at creating a language". ==Controversy==

In August 2020, the site attracted attention after a Reddit post noted that the project contained an unusually high number of articles written in poor-quality Scots. They were written by a single prolific contributor, who was an American teenager. These articles consisted of mostly English instead of Scots vocabulary and grammar. It is claimed that the editor apparently used an online English–Scots dictionary to translate parts of English Wikipedia articles word-by-word, without regard for syntax. Over 23,000 articles, approximately a third of the entire Scots Wikipedia at that time, were created by the editor. These articles have been described as "English written in a Scottish accent", with gibberish and nonsensical words and spellings not present in any Scots dialect. Following public backlash, the editor wrote an apology. In response to the controversy, the Scots Wikipedia started a review of its articles for language inaccuracies, and deleted many of the affected articles. == See also ==