[Wikipedia-l] Setting up a Scots Wikipedia

[David Gerard]

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.