Scots Wikipedia

The Scots Wikipedia (Scots: Scots Wikipædia) is the Scots-language edition of the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. It was established on 23 June 2005, and it reached 1,000 articles in February 2006, and 5,000 articles in November 2010. It has now 34,254 articles and is the 116th-largest Wikipedia. The Scots Wikipedia is one of nine Wikipedias written in an Anglic language or English-based pidgin or creole, the others being the English Wikipedia, the Simple English Wikipedia, the Old English Wikipedia, the Tok Pisin (Papuan Pidgin) Wikipedia, the Jamaican Patois Wikipedia, the Sranan Tongo Wikipedia, the Nigerian Pidgin Wikipedia, and the Ghanaian Pidgin Wikipedia. In August 2020, the wiki received scrutiny from the media for the poor quality of its Scots writing and the discovery that at least 20,000 articles had been written by an editor who did not speak the language. This attention led to a review of the wiki's content by Scots speakers as well as editors from the wider Wikipedia community. Most of the editor's articles were deleted, reducing the number of articles from about 55,000 in 2018 to about 40,000 in 2021.