I'd like to request that a Scots language Wikipedia be set up. There are estimated to be around 1.6 million Scots speakers together with at least another 2 million Scots who passively understand the language to some extent. This must make it one of the largest European languages for which we do not have a Wiki. The 3 letter language code for Scots is sco so the URL should be http://sco.wikipedia.org/ since there is no two letter code. I am a native speaker and am more than willing to start the necessary translation and configuration work once the initial site has been created.
Cheers
Derek http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Derek_Ross
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On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 02:37:11 -0500 (EST), Derek Ross derekrss@yahoo.ca wrote:
I'd like to request that a Scots language Wikipedia be set up.
I suggest you add the request to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages but until there is a policy for whether or not these can be created, the requests are likely to just keep mounting up.
A proposed policy is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy_for_wikis_in_new_languages
Do you know if any other people are interested in contributing to this wiki?
Angela.
Hi Derek (and Angela),
So far, while the requests have been piling up, there have been some new Wikipedia creations, especially in cases where there was no ISO code ambiguity (Tumbuka, Friulian, Ossetic).
My reccommendation, Derek, is to start a Scots Wikipedia at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/test-wp/sco/ , and once you have the mainpage and perhaps a couple of articles, it won't be hard to get a developer to create the Scots Wikipedia for you.
Mark
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:29:43 +0100, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 02:37:11 -0500 (EST), Derek Ross derekrss@yahoo.ca wrote:
I'd like to request that a Scots language Wikipedia be set up.
I suggest you add the request to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages but until there is a policy for whether or not these can be created, the requests are likely to just keep mounting up.
A proposed policy is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy_for_wikis_in_new_languages
Do you know if any other people are interested in contributing to this wiki?
Angela. _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
Derek Ross wrote:
I'd like to request that a Scots language Wikipedia be set up. There are estimated to be around 1.6 million Scots speakers together with at least another 2 million Scots who passively understand the language to some extent. This must make it one of the largest European languages for which we do not have a Wiki. The 3 letter language code for Scots is sco so the URL should be http://sco.wikipedia.org/ since there is no two letter code. I am a native speaker and am more than willing to start the necessary translation and configuration work once the initial site has been created.
Do you know the guy who does http://www.scotstext.org/ ? If he can be enticed along, he'd be great for the job. That site scans and puts up old texts in Scots, inconsistent orthography and all; he'd be good for sorting that out too.
- d.
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