On 28 September 2011 13:53, Harry Burt harryaburt@gmail.com wrote:
Oh, sure. But Scots is the most marginal case of the lot, I think, which is why I was reminded of it by the original post.
I agree that it is debatable whether some of the marginal wikipedias have much value, although in the case of Scots it is perhaps because it is generally quite understandable to most English speakers that makes the Scots Wikipedia seem less useful than say Welsh or Irish Wikipedias.
http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_leid
However, I do think that Wikimedia UK ought to offer support and encouragement to other language wikis with UK connections if needed. The following is a list of other language Wikipedias that could be considered to come under the purview of Wikimedia UK:
Simple English http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Simple_English_Wikipedia 73,631 articles
Welsh http://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymraeg 33,944 articles
Irish http://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaeilge 13,294 articles
Scottish Gaelic http://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A0idhlig 8,459 articles
Scots http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_leid 7,153 articles
Manx http://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelg 3,900 articles
Norman (including Guernésiais, Jèrriais and Sercquiais) http://nrm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normaund 3,473 articles
Anglo-Saxon http://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Englisc_spr%C7%A3c 2,720 articles
Cornish http://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernewek 2,188 articles
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