Why is it still like that? Bizarre that no one at Wikipedia has fixed it.
He must have put in a lot of effort. Fucking gas!
Some lad did the same with Ulster Scots, on every governmental website
Incredible, the Yanks keep stockpiling reasons to be hated
The wee dafty
Scots is not a language. Neither is Ulster-Scots.
It’s almost as if it’s an accent not a language.
I mean, it is impressive that he pulled that off
This is hilarious
All this arguing about Scots is a language or not.
Well let’s put it this way. He couldn’t have done that with Japanese could he…
Here is my experience with Wikipedia. I used it to research a subject I was interested in. But as I read article after article, I realised that the English in almost all of them had mistakes in it. They hadn’t been written by English speakers apparently. Also, the articles themselves were poorly organised and formatted. This was more difficult to understand. It was frustrating to see.
One day I took it on myself to edit an article to improve it. I have the education and background to be able to edit something properly, so I did it. I did not need to be an expert on the subject, because I was merely editing. I didn’t add, change or delete the content.
I did it to another article. A few more. And then I tackled the main article, a rather long one. I love the subject, and I felt I was contributing in a meaningful way.
So nothing happened for a few weeks. But then the comments came in (presumably by authors) about how I had vandalised and ruined the Wikipedia article. This was bullshit, and I knew it. Eventually the comments died away, and the article remained as how I had edited it. Although of course later contributors started playing with it further, reintroducing language mistakes.
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I didn’t know written English could have an accent
Scots, not Scottish.
r/Scotland
Didn’t this come out way back in 2020?? Honestly this should have been long resolved by wikipedia – no idea why people are still talking bout this…
https://sco.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page is actually a funny read.
Why is it still like that? Bizarre that no one at Wikipedia has fixed it.
He must have put in a lot of effort. Fucking gas!
Some lad did the same with Ulster Scots, on every governmental website
Incredible, the Yanks keep stockpiling reasons to be hated
The wee dafty
Scots is not a language. Neither is Ulster-Scots.
It’s almost as if it’s an accent not a language.
I mean, it is impressive that he pulled that off
This is hilarious
All this arguing about Scots is a language or not.
Well let’s put it this way. He couldn’t have done that with Japanese could he…
Here is my experience with Wikipedia. I used it to research a subject I was interested in. But as I read article after article, I realised that the English in almost all of them had mistakes in it. They hadn’t been written by English speakers apparently. Also, the articles themselves were poorly organised and formatted. This was more difficult to understand. It was frustrating to see.
One day I took it on myself to edit an article to improve it. I have the education and background to be able to edit something properly, so I did it. I did not need to be an expert on the subject, because I was merely editing. I didn’t add, change or delete the content.
I did it to another article. A few more. And then I tackled the main article, a rather long one. I love the subject, and I felt I was contributing in a meaningful way.
So nothing happened for a few weeks. But then the comments came in (presumably by authors) about how I had vandalised and ruined the Wikipedia article. This was bullshit, and I knew it. Eventually the comments died away, and the article remained as how I had edited it. Although of course later contributors started playing with it further, reintroducing language mistakes.