Hoi,

I am in two minds about this one. Yes, the sco.wikipedia is a fiasco. However, when we concentrate on what is bad, there will be people who will obsess with using this mechanism on other Wikipedias. The Cebuano Wikipedia comes to mind, Waray-Waray.

Given language constructs, with a little bit of luck we can replace languages structures that are wrong. We can ask the people of Abstract Wikipedia to consider this. For them it is an exercise that is relatively easy (only one language other than English) and it solves an actual problem. How do you like this suggestion?

Thanks,

GerardM

On Thu, 27 Aug 2020 at 20:33, Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> wrote:

On the Scots Language Forum on Wikipedia the following was said:

One reads that a group of volunteers will endeavor to correct the Scots Wikipedia pages.
Might it be a good idea if they were to flag the pages they have corrected, or judged to be devoid of unreliable language, so visitors know whether a page can be trusted or not ?

A response was made:

We certainly need a process for this. I think Wikipedia can do a lot of flagging with automatic bots.

There are two parties to this. One is WikiMedia and the various volunteer admins, who have the tools and technical knowledge to deal with critical incidents like this. The other is the Scots language 'community'. The online discussion yesterday was mostly among the former, but they were clearly looking for guidance from the latter on what to do

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Can this be facilitated?

Michael
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