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Inglis

Wee is thar nae link tae the Inglis Wikipaedia on the Main Page? Woshiyiweizhongguoren (tauk) 15:34, 9 Apryle 2019 (UTC)

Cause thare shoudna be ane. English is a deid leid, an naebody cares aboot it ony mair. Ye micht as well link tae the Latin ane.— Precedin unsigned comment addit bi 2001:bc8:4700:2300::11:c07 (talk) 06:05, 10 Mey 2019‎ (UTC)

Acause Scots isna English. KevRobbSCO (tauk) 01:38, 20 Mairch 2020 (UTC)

Depends on who you ask. Many Scots speakers consider it dialect group of English, others as a related Anglic language. Black Adam (tauk) 13:57, 15 Apryle 2025 (UTC)

(En) New idea: Featurt uiser

It'd be nice to be able to highlight the contributions of our users for a change. Instead of doing "On this day" (which almost always is a redlink), we could do a featurt uiser and some articles they contributed to. Anyone have thoughts on this? –MJL ‐Tauk‐^☖ 17:47, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

(En) Removal

Should the "On this day" section be removed? According to this, there really isn't anyone updating (creating) it often enough and the main page is broken because of this.

In addition, the DYK section has not been created and it's near the end of January. Minorax (tauk) 05:57, 27 Januar 2020 (UTC)

@Minorax: I've long contemplated whether or not it's worth it to keep that section around. One of my long shot ideas was to replace it with a "Featurt uiser" section or something to celebrate our many contributors.
What do you think we should replace it with? –MJL ‐Tauk‐^☖ 05:53, 6 Februar 2020 (UTC)

@MJL: That really isn’t going to solve the issue as well. “Elections” has to be made to select the user monthly. Minorax (tauk) 10:39, 6 Februar 2020 (UTC)

@Minorax: True, I suppose. Do you have any alternative ideas? I'm completely open to new and unique things. –MJL ‐Tauk‐^☖ 15:42, 6 Februar 2020 (UTC)

@MJL: The "On this day" section can be kept if someone is free enough to create templates for the remaining 261 days. 1 suggestion is that someone can translate them from en.wiki, taking from pages en:January 1, en:January 2, etc. The "Featured picture" section definitely needs to be taken out as consensus is needed to make an image into a featured one. Also, perhaps the DYK section can stretch across the entire page so it can have a larger image. Minorax (tauk) 07:58, 7 Februar 2020 (UTC)

@Minorax: Generally, consensus isn't really required in the traditional sense to promote things to the Main Page. What normally happens is an admin (or any other interested party) will just fill up the spot with whatever content they feel is high enough quality. If you wanted to promote a picture right now, you'd be welcomed to do that so long as it was justifiable in some form. –MJL ‐Tauk‐^☖ 15:17, 10 Februar 2020 (UTC)

As for promoting an image on the main page, we do have thousands of featured pictures on Commons. They can be promoted to Featured images status here too. But we'll need captions in Scots of the images we are promoting. I don't think just posting is enough. We'll have to describe what the image is about in this wiki's language. Masumrezarock100 (tauk) 13:36, 11 Februar 2020 (UTC)

@MJL: as per above, "copying" images from commons is a good option but probably have a weekly featured images instead of a daily one. Yes, I have some images to promote right now, but my knowledge of Scots is probably a 0.1 Minorax (tauk) 02:58, 12 Februar 2020 (UTC)

All Scottish speak and understand English. So we could make captions in English and they would understand them. But that would defeat the purpose of having a Scots Wikipedia. Masumrezarock100 (tauk) 03:12, 12 Februar 2020 (UTC)

@Minorax and Masumrezarock100: The images are promoted for a month, and the captions aren't really an issue to translate. It just becomes a question of who wants to do it? –MJL ‐Tauk‐^☖ 20:08, 13 Februar 2020 (UTC)

@MJL: If you don't mind, I can pop by every month to create the FP for the following month. Just that I need help translating. Minorax (tauk) 12:27, 15 Februar 2020 (UTC)

@Minorax: Please feel free! :D –MJL ‐Tauk‐^☖ 16:05, 15 Februar 2020 (UTC)

(En) Auditing consultant nominations

I intend to use this section to list consulting pro-Scots Scots authorities here, and I ask others to as well. James Salsman (tauk) 20:29, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Has any actual Scot ever visited this site, apart from me right now? Is that meant to be Doric or just some weird imaginary version of modern written Scots, because I don't even see a correct word anywhere I look... But yeah, needs consultants; I'm willing. David A McIntee (tauk) 00:40, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

@David A McIntee: I can confidently say that there are Scots who have visited this website, yes.
Also, is this you? –MJL ‐Tauk‐^☖ 02:08, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

If you are fluent in Scots, please join in the cleanup project. They are a more reliable authority than I. James Salsman (tauk) 15:48, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

(En) Seriously?

What the hell is that racist wikipedia? Are Scots meant to be portrayed as drunken, blubbering retards unable to speak properly? Is it a troll wiki or something? — Forerin nae adheebit commend addit bi ‎2a01:cb08:8c6d:1900:8b0:e686:7d71:72bf (talk • contribs)

This wiki has gotten questions like this dozens of times, but *you're* incredibly special, since you waited until after news broke that basically all the content on this wiki was provided by one dumbass American teenager who didn't speak Scots. 2601:243:C601:5960:1C9E:151D:3C65:D80B (talk) 00:10, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

It's been discussed to death elsewhere. Adding another complaint here doesn't help anybody, but you could get spend the effort fixing some articles instead. my_hat_stinks (tauk) 00:12, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Moving the goalposts doesn't answer my question.— Precedin unsigned comment addit bi 2a01:cb08:8c6d:1900:8b0:e686:7d71:72bf (talk) 00:30, 27 August 2020‎ (UTC)

The goal was not racism, or even parody or satire, as far as I can tell. Some youthful Wikipedians often see their total edit count as a measure of self-worth, because the community uses such measures to award themselves volunteer service award badges and similar kudos. Sometimes this leads to a limbic and endocrine system feedback loop wherein the editor in question can feel intrinsic rewards for simply making edits, even when they know those edits are inaccurate. Sometimes people will make one or two such edits in jest, and beginning editors will often do so as part of a breaching experiment to see whether the accuracy of the Encyclopedia is accurately maintained. This was not a breaching experiment. It went on for tens of thousands of edits, including deliberately fabricated grammar which the editor, who had sought and obtained sysop permissions, knew was being used by machine learning, language understanding, translation, and similar applications. Requests to help were treated politely but coldly for the most part, as far as I've been able to tell, without any express or implied interest in pro-Scots Scots authority development within the editor corps. The small wiki audit failed to catch this issue, in part because it appears that Scots speakers are too polite to have complained as loudly as when similar things have happened on other small wikis.

This is a great opportunity to correct the problem in a semi-automated fashion supported by the more than 100 pro-Scots Scots speakers who have agreed to help so far.

To those, I say, welcome! James Salsman (tauk) 15:36, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Maybe it wasn't intended to be racist, but to me, it comes off as such. If I could actually speak Scottish, I'd gladly help, but turns out I'd be more helpful on an encyclopedia ABOUT Scotland than in Scottish, so I'll refrain. I'll still be lurking this wiki from time to time, because I'm curious to check how Scottish differs from other Celtic languages, like Welsh. All the best! (And seriously, quality should beat quantity. There's something really wrong with the wikis, and I hope there aren't any other rotten apples). AND PLEASE FIX THE TOOLTIPS. -- 2A01:CB08:8C6D:1900:D05F:98D5:3311:18A5 (talk) 11:36, 27 Apryle 2021 (UTC)

Scots is not an Celtic language, it is an Anglo-Frisian language in the West Germanic branch of the Germanic language family. Black Adam (tauk) 13:55, 15 Apryle 2025 (UTC)

(En) WikiBlame status?

One tool which would help is en:Wikipedia:WikiBlame, but I have no idea how to install it. If you are a software developer fluent in Scots, would you please look into the internationalization requirements of that tool? James Salsman (tauk) 16:03, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

I don't know what you mean by "install". You can just go to WikiBlame, set the project to sco.wikipedia, and it will work. PiRSquared17 (tauk) 16:27, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Great! Thank you. I thought there was a Mediawiki PHP component and interface strings. If there is a WP:BACKLOG here yet we should include review of the MediaWiki interface strings. James Salsman (tauk) 16:33, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:E Scots Leed Editathon August 2020 Sunday and Monday, August 30-31

(En) Reposting here and at the Commonty Yett to improve visibility. James Salsman (tauk) 16:44, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Newsins

Many thanks to Uiser:Cobra 3000 for updating the "Newsins" (for the first time since the last time that was done by AG on Apr 2, 2020!), although they're not able to do it permanently. Are any other native speakers of Scots willing to volunteer? Regards, Sije (tauk) 18:24, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

[En] Scots language on Telegram!

Since this week, Telegram has a new platform for translating its app to Scots language. There aren't translators yet, so please join to the platform and translate the Telegram app to Scots. It will be great for this language to be more present in technology. To begin translating Telegram to Scots, go to the Scots Platform Group through this link: https://t.me/translation_scots

(En) Articles which may not be in Scots

Please accept my apologies if this is not the right place to post this. If it is not, please move this section to the correct page and leave a pointer here in its place.

I've recently performed an automated analysis of the ScoWiki articles, and I suggest that the following may not be in correct Scots. I understand that many are false positives because they contain properly included non-Scots, but I was not confident in my ability to remove those by hand. I would appreciate such help from native speakers.

1. Tomorrowland
2. São Gonçalo
3. São José
4. Bom Jesus
5. Santo Antônio
6. Gralloch
7. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
8. Campestre
9. Antoine de Vignerot du Plessis, Duke o Richelieu
10. São João
11. Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation
12. Bela Vista
13. Aprile
14. Béatrix de Choiseul
15. Modrenism
16. Nine-bawl
17. Friedrich August I o Saxony
18. Paykan
19. Santana
20. Hortense Félicité de Mailly
21. Plurality votin seestem
22. São Luís
23. Magnox Ltd
24. European colonisation o the Americas
25. Carmo
26. São Sebastião
27. Pocahontas (1995 film)
28. Valkyrie
29. Kabul Province
30. Cam Ye O'er Frae France
31. In My Defens God Me Defend
32. São Miguel
33. Dexter and Friends (1996's tv series)
34. Jethart
35. São Domingos
36. Wappen o mass destruction
37. Jatt
38. Gloria Swanson
39. Neil Armstrong
40. Timothy McCarthy
41. Hayes F.C.
42. Smear Campaign (album)
43. Sooth Hamgyong Province
44. Jeju Province
45. São Sebastião do Caí
46. Susan Hayward
47. Fine structur
48. Airmed Forces o Haiti
49. Toluene
50. Tercera División de México
51. Esslingen (destrict)
52. Twin Ring Motegi
53. Scotland the Brave
54. Breitbart News
55. Jerry Springer
56. Friedrich I o Württemberg
57. Anarchist communism
58. Airmed Forces o the Dominican Republic
59. St. Dubtach
60. Hunt the gowk
61. Paul Harvey
62. EGP-6
63. Banteng
64. God Save the Queen
65. Beihai
66. Djemna
67. Upper Sorbian leid
68. RBMK
69. British Energy
70. Bose–Einstein condensate
71. Thales
72. Waldshut (destrict)
73. Numerical integration
74. Bobby Sands
75. Montigny-le-Bretonneux
76. Boys o the Auld Brigade
77. Mon leid
78. Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier, Baron o Breteuil
79. Anseba Region
80. Hazaras
81. Marsh frog
82. São Félix
83. Austin-Healey 3000
84. Lishán Didán
85. Vandals
86. Moorside Nuclear Pouer Station
87. Twitch
88. Linkin Park
89. Hankavan
90. Leet o municipalities in Rio Grande do Norte
91. Charlotte Louise de Rohan
92. Heid
93. Kidnappin
94. Mazurek Dąbrowskiego
95. Breed to Breathe
96. The Osterman Weekend
97. Diesel ingine
98. Peter Moore (travel author)
99. Leet o Arab banners
100. São Pedro
101. São Francisco
102. Radar
103. Wylfa Nuclear Pouer Station
104. Arkansas River
105. Sunchang
106. Sizewell C nuclear pouer station
107. Naitional Socialist black metal
108. Sarah McLeod
109. Opeth
110. Hoose o Bonaparte
111. Maekel Region
112. Santa Maria do Cambucá
113. The Ajna Offensive
114. Airchduchess Maria Beatrice o Austrick-Este
115. Anna Vissi
116. Hohenzollern Locomotive Works
117. Sarandi
118. SpongeBob SquarePants
119. São Pedro do Butiá
120. 2019 Indie general election
121. Prince Emanuele Filiberto o Savoy, Prince o Venice
122. Save Our Souls
123. Hopelchén
124. Dulce Pontes
125. Province o Salamanca
126. Mary Tyler Moore
127. Chagang Province
128. Prince Anton Ulrich o Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
129. Daewoo Tico
130. Mercury Meteor
131. Charles d'Albert, Duke o Luynes
132. Sutyagin Hoose
133. Longport, Staffordshire
134. Castelo
135. Bootlegged in Japan
136. 30 Seconds to Mars
137. Address to the Haggis
138. Philippe de Courcillon, Marquis o Dangeau
139. Borjomi
140. Taxi Driver
141. Aka-Bo leid
142. Kronstadt
143. Cinderella (1950 film)
144. Tuna
145. Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke o Tuscany
146. Comarques o Catalonie
147. Ulpia Severina
148. Aquifer
149. Santa Fé do Sul
150. Muhammad Iqbal
151. Hôtel de Montbazon
152. North Gyeongsang Province
153. Olgivdam Jaspdai
154. Peugeot 3008
155. Pretender
156. Kristinehamn Municipality
157. Mascara Province
158. Philippe Jules Mancini, Duke o Nevers
159. Balaton (caur)
160. Solar radius
161. Ciénega de Flores
162. Dana Loesch
163. Marie Émilie de Joly
164. Gangwon Province (Sooth Korea)
165. Santa Rita
166. London Borough of Camden
167. Telangana
168. Rua do Cunha
169. Morro
170. Rob Zombie
171. São Bernardo do Campo
172. Robbie Keane
173. Steen Thychosen
174. Alison Weir
175. Santa Luzia
176. Greer Garson
177. Dungeness Nuclear Pouer Station
178. Philippe de Bourbon, Duke o Vendôme
179. Young Dolph
180. César Chávez
181. Guy Paul Jules de La Porte, Duke o La Meilleraye
182. Odin
183. Madame de Parabère
184. Greenock Central railwey station
185. Confine
186. The Kerry Recruit
187. Beja Destrict
188. Warld Puil Association
189. Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)
190. Beuk o Ezekiel
191. Omer Šipraga
192. Mato Grosso do Sul
193. The Corbie
194. U.D.O.
195. August, Duke o Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
196. Hoose o Grimaldi
197. Eleonora di Toledo
198. William Jay Smith
199. Verbenaceae
200. Villa Fiorito
201. Steve Davis
202. 2000 UEFA Cup Final riots
203. Christmas Island
204. Ibicuí River
205. Semanteec chynge
206. North Pyongan Province
207. Sooth Jeolla Province
208. Rafael Pereira da Silva (fitbawer, born 1980)
209. Globular cluster
210. São Lourenço
211. Amalie o Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
212. Maikon Leite
213. Heritage railwey
214. San Nicolas, Manila
215. Joseph, Duke o Parma
216. Provinces o Mongolie
217. Aust-Agder
218. Ben Bhraggie
219. Princess Marie o Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1808–1877)
220. Margaret Osborne duPont
221. Ray Reardon
222. Banner o Burundi
223. Rosa Parks
224. Pape Paul VI
225. North Chungcheong Province
226. Muisicker
227. Michael Jordan
228. Portuguese Brazilians
229. Electric pouer
230. The Heart of Everything
231. Tierra Blanca, Veracruz
232. Hedy Lamarr
233. Autolatina
234. Coonties o Albanie
235. Soriano Calabro
236. James Prescott Joule
237. Al Jawl
238. The Darkness (baund)
239. George R. R. Martin
240. Montese
241. Groningen (disambiguation)
242. Iron Maiden
243. Georges Lemaître
244. Louis Joseph, Dauphin o Fraunce
245. Tuba
246. Lilium
247. Yazz
248. Santa Maria do Salto
249. Hoose o Fitz-James
250. Bernard Cribbins

I can create a larger list if this one is useful. Please let me know by replying. 107.242.121.49 (talk) 14:42, 31 Julie 2021 (UTC)

(En) How to tag scotched English?

I wanted to ask this on Wikipedia:Help desk but it's protected. What is the right way to tag articles such as ? 71.204.166.188 (talk) 16:27, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

Use {{Fix Scots}} CiphriusKane (tauk) 16:47, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

(En) Google Translate announces support for Sanskrit, used by about 20,000 people, but not Scots

https://blog.google/products/translate/24-new-languages/

It would be great to have a NLP database of actual Scots some day. Any idea when the corrupted articles will ever be deleted or moved to a segregated namespace? 2600:387:F:5737:0:0:0:6 (talk) 17:14, 12 Mey 2022 (UTC)

Never aye, maist likesome. It be over, lad.--Sigehelmus (tauk) 22:22, 12 Juin 2022 (UTC)

Same with Facebook Research: 200 new languages, some tiny, but no Scots. 71.204.166.188 (talk) 22:57, 10 Julie 2022 (UTC)

Request articles for deletion?

Any method of requesting articles to be deleted for this edition? An example would be this article on an obscure Malagasy metal band from the 2000s. There's no value here and I doubt there are many Scottish people who are into Malagasy metal bands, much less Malagasy music in general. It's almost certainly written in bogus Scots. It would be a great way to get this Wiki back up to speed and clear the absolutely irrelevant crap like this. ManhattanChase (tauk) 23:01, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

ManhattanChase, ye can tag for deletion a page by adding {{delete}} tae the tap. See an aw Wikipedia:Votes for deletion. Sije (tauk) 21:05, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

(En) So much inconsistency in spelling.

I think it's important that this wiki come to agreement on the correct way to spell in Scots. There is so much variation in how to write simple words, something that's confusing and may present an image to outsiders of it being a fake language.

Examples:

the vs. 'E vs. tha

leid vs leed

-y vs -ie

There are many other examples too. NorfolkIsland123 (tauk) 00:10, 14 Januar 2023 (UTC)

Is it color or colour? Theorise or theorize? Oestrogen or estrogen? Wow, English must be a fake language with all this inconsistency CiphriusKane (tauk) 10:15, 14 Januar 2023 (UTC)

(en) @NorfolkIsland123: What you are suggesting here is dialect suppression, and I'm not going to abide the idea that certain dialects of Scots should be driven off the wiki, especially when you're going to call the language fake for having dialects CiphriusKane (tauk) 14:41, 14 Januar 2023 (UTC)

I'm not saying that. I'm not suggesting dialect suppression. All languages, such as Italian, Spanish, German, Mandarin, etc. have many dialects. But they all also have a standardized form of their language. I think it would be most helpful if this wiki was in a standardized Scots. NorfolkIsland123 (tauk) 15:10, 16 Januar 2023 (UTC)

No editor on this wiki would call Scots a fake language. It's not. What NorfolkIsland is simply suggesting is that we create some kind of standard for Scots, so we can make translating articles easier. Additionally, there should be some kind of database so that Scots speakers can see how they should translate/write out Scots.

For example, although I am able to speak Scots, I am from the borders. Therefore, the Scots I know is very different from say, Glaswegian Scots or Highland Scots. A standardized Scots would help make it easier for us to translate, as well as assist in combatting the misconception that Scots is a fake language.

Without this, there is little that identifies the difference between Scots as a dialect/accent, and Scots as a language. RazorPantherz (tauk) 11:35, 18 Apryle 2024 (UTC)

(Scotched En) State of Scots machine translation

Here's what happens when you ask ChatGPT-4, which is trained on scowiki dumps including the remaining intermingled Scotched English, to translate English to Scots:

Can we hae a blether aboot sortin' oot a clean release o' the Scots Wikipaedia dumps? It's been a guid few year syne the hale stooshie wi' the Scots Wikipaedia (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-us-teenager-wrote-huge-slice-of-scots-wikipedia), an' though the scowiki folk hae marked maist o' the articles wi' mangled "Scotched English," they're still sittin' there, muddlin' things up. Nae other wey has been found tae help wi' machine translation an' siclike, leavin' Scots - spoken by a quarter million souls - in the lurch, the maist ignored leid by the big translation firms by a fair mile. Google Translate, Meta, Microsoft an' aw that support languages wi' fewer thun 20,000 speakers, but nae Scots.

The scowiki heid yins dinnae seem tae fash themselves wi' sortin' oot this mess, save for slappin' on article tags. An' them that care for the Scots leid hae gien up on their Wikipaedia, thinkin' it's a goner. So, could the Foundation maybe tak a hand an' whip up an alternative scowiki dump? Y'know, ane that leaves oot aw the articles wi' a tag for bein' Scotched, for the sake o' machine translation an' NLP communities? Richt noo, there's 2,473 articles in need o' bein' set aside (https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pages_that_wis_written_by_a_body_that_haesna_a_guid_grip_on_the_leid) oot o' the 35,199 in scowiki mainspace.

I'm reckonin' this isnae muckle work tae slot intae the dumps generation process, but it's ootwith ma ken tae dae masel, or tae pit it richt on Phabricator. No that it's a matter o' life an' death, mind, since maist Scots speakers ken their English, but for the sake o' keepin' oor leid fae fadin' away, it's the decent thing tae dae.

Here's the original for reference:

Is it feasible to create a non-Scotched release of the Scots Wikipedia dumps? It's been three years since the Scots Wikipedia scandal (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-us-teenager-wrote-huge-slice-of-scots-wikipedia), and while the scowiki community has tagged almost all of the offending "Scotched English" articles, they have never been moved to an alternate namespace; nor has any other solution for machine translation and other dump-downstream NLP users yet been implemented, leaving Scots with 250,000 native speakers as the most widely languge not supported by any of the big machine translation provoders by a huge margin. I.e., Google Translate, Meta, and Microsoft all support automatic translation of at least a handful of languages spoken by 20,000 or fewer people, but not Scots.

As the scowiki admins have shown no interest in segregating the corruption other than by ambox template article tags, and Scots language preservationists have apparently washed their hands of their Wikipedia as a lost cause, can the Foundation please step in and sinply produce an alternate scowiki dump without any of the articles taged as Scotched, for the benefit of the machine translation and NLP communities? Currently there are 2,473 articles needing segregation (in https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pages_that_wis_written_by_a_body_that_haesna_a_guid_grip_on_the_leid) out of 35,199 total in scowiki mainspace.

I am sure that this amounts to no more than a few hours of work to fully implement within the dumps generation process, but I'm not familiar enough to do it myself, or with Phabricator to properly file the request. And while there is no life-or-death urgency to do this, as essentially every Scots speaker can speak English, it is absolutely the right thing for linguistic preservation to help prevent the loss of another endangered language.

Maybe in the future AI will make new languages for us. 2601:647:5701:39B0:80E1:16A2:3865:8937 (talk) 00:12, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

James, let me make myself clear: WE ARE NOT MOVING THE ARTICLES! Shoving them into some shitty other corner is not the solution, so stop harping on about it CiphriusKane (tauk) 01:14, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

(En) List of bad and good Scots articles?

Does anybody have a list of articles in good and bad scots?

I want to see examples so I know what not to do when translating.

Cheers! RazorPantherz (tauk) 19:25, 20 Apryle 2024 (UTC)

Wiki closure proposal on Meta (EN) (CLOSED)

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Scots_Wikipedia_2 Dronebogus (tauk) 21:03, 24 Mey 2024 (UTC)

Top banner

Why is december written like that in tha top banner? I've nae seen that spelling onywhere, no in tha DSL or tha Wikipaedia for that matter. RazorPantherz (tauk) 19:16, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

https://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/document/?documentid=1374&highlight=dizember CiphriusKane (tauk) 19:30, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Is this not jist ane occurence o this? Wouldn't we uise tha type that occurs mair? That seems to be whit we've been daein', as far as I ken. RazorPantherz (tauk) 20:05, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

I jist copied the dates aat @Cobra 3000: uised fur the page. Banner's been taen doon noo onywyes sae there's nae really ony issue CiphriusKane (tauk) 20:49, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

A'v seen that spellin on the Wiki afore an it represents hou a hear it in real life perfeck, so a went wi it.

-Cobra! (tauk) 11:56, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Aye that's completely fair, jist thocht whan I saw it first it wisna richt or wis someane making it up, thats a. RazorPantherz (tauk) 12:10, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Retire OTD

A'm proponin aat we retire the "On This Day" section o the main page. Maist o the templates dinna exist an niver will an mony o thaim is fu ae reid airtins, acause thay wis makit bi fowk tryin ti copy enwiki athoot considerin the difference atween enwiki an scowiki. It's ae relic aat we'r really nae able ti deal wi an dinna need CiphriusKane (tauk) 15:12, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

(EN) I have technical skill

I don't know any Scots (I mean I can get the gist of it since it's so close to English) but I do know several programming languages. I can potentially code bots that can, for instance, detect English grammar in articles, external tools, etc. Grilledcheeseisgreat (tauk) 18:51, 30 Julie 2026 (UTC)

(en) You're not the first to make such a proposal, and given how disastrous every previous attempt by non-speakers to do what you're proposing went, I'm frankly opposed CiphriusKane (tauk) 18:59, 30 Julie 2026 (UTC)

(en) I don't mean I'll be writing any Scots text, but as in I make tools that could detect pages that are obviously English or English with Scottish words, for example. To be clear, I will not touch article text, and neither will any tools I make. Grilledcheeseisgreat (tauk) 19:06, 30 Julie 2026 (UTC)

(en)

1) Again, non-speakers have tried that before and it kept ending up as the subject of meta discussions with blocks being handed out. That last sentence sounds extremely similar to what the last person proposed, only for them to start using a gadget without approval

2) You've got 2 edits and have made zero effort to familiarise yourself with the wiki

3) You admit to not knowing the language. That right there is a huge red flag and enough for me to oppose on its own CiphriusKane (tauk) 19:22, 30 Julie 2026 (UTC)

(en) I mean, that was an example, not necessarily what I'll do. Seeing the state of this Wiki made me so sad, and I want to offer my skills to help - I will be cautious and make what the community needs. Only if someone explicitly authorizes or asks for something will I activate a gadget. I also understand your caution given the history of this wiki, and I will respect it. For now, I won't be doing much besides trying to familiarize myself with the Wiki and maybe basics of Scots. Grilledcheeseisgreat (tauk) 00:02, 31 Julie 2026 (UTC)

(En) Archive.today

Haven't contributed in a while, still want to help. On English Wikipedia, archive.today has been deprecated. The operator used the site as a browser-based botnet to do a DDoS attack, and some archives have been altered just as petty revenge on a Finnish security blogger. Keeping it on here is a danger to both editors and our readers. There are hundreds, if not thousands of citations using it on this wiki, you can see here: . Should we deprecate it like English Wikipedia? Grilledcheeseisgreat (tauk) 14:10, 13 October 2026 (UTC)

(en) Oh, looked at @CiphriusKane's talk page, appears it's already been agreed that it's no good. Well, I am in the process of converting this tool for Swedish Wikipedia (see GitHub repository here). I can convert it for scowiki too (though it'll have to be in English at first) Grilledcheeseisgreat (tauk) 14:18, 13 October 2026 (UTC)

(en) 764 is a far cry from "thousands" and we've slowly been removing them (even set it up as a task here back in August). If that tool can get rid of the rest, great. From what I've seen enwiki's just been hiding the links rather than removing them, something I'm not exactly keen on CiphriusKane (tauk) 14:32, 13 October 2026 (UTC)

(en) What the tool does is it'll scan all the citations in an article you give it and then it finds whether or not there's a good regular Internet Archive replacement for it. If there is, it'll give you the link. It can also scan each article in a category you give it as well. Grilledcheeseisgreat (tauk) 14:38, 13 October 2026 (UTC)

(en) In addition to that tool, I also already have a prototype script (on Swedish Wikipedia) that can scan pages and automatically replace archive.today links when possible. Grilledcheeseisgreat (tauk) 14:40, 13 October 2026 (UTC)

@CiphriusKane I've done a few tests on Swedish Wikipedia of my prototype script, so far, so good, I'll have to make sure it also updates the recorded timestamp as it can change, but besides that it's largely ready. Do you approve of bringing it here and beginning to test it, once I make that one change? Grilledcheeseisgreat (tauk) 15:25, 13 October 2026 (UTC)

Just a couple of questions: where does it output the results and does it keep a log? As Atlantic306 can attest, sometimes the source is bad overall so it'd be good to have someplace to see the results CiphriusKane (tauk) 15:45, 13 October 2026 (UTC)

(en) The fully automated script or the semi-automated tool? Grilledcheeseisgreat (tauk) 15:57, 13 October 2026 (UTC)

(en) OK after rereading you obviously meant the script. It outputs to console.log, but there's no public log it makes yet. I can add that pretty easily. I could also make it flag deprecated sources too when recording its changes, if you want. Grilledcheeseisgreat (tauk) 16:08, 13 October 2026 (UTC)

Okay, both of those sound good. I'd like to hear from Atlantic first before approving it as they've been doing the majority of the work on removing the links (and would likely benefit the most) CiphriusKane (tauk) 16:17, 13 October 2026 (UTC)

Alright, I'll bring the script here and start doing some edits - only going to start testing once we hear from Atlantic. Grilledcheeseisgreat (tauk) 16:19, 13 October 2026 (UTC)

(en) as in edits to the script, not mainspace. Grilledcheeseisgreat (tauk) 16:19, 13 October 2026 (UTC)

Alright, brought it over, beginning to troubleshoot its logging functionality (not testing its ability to fix citations yet, as I said before). Grilledcheeseisgreat (tauk) 17:25, 13 October 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the ping. It would be very helpful to have the archive today links either replaced with internet archive or totally removed. I also have reservations about the English Wikipedia bot that only disables the archive today links rather than removing them which leaves them in the edit source so people can cut and paste them and possibly then blame Wikipedia for their devices getting infected. I also agree there should be a public log so that the automated edits can be checked. One of the reasons for checking is that replacement internet archive links can be unusable such as archived 404s, website under construction pages and access forbidden pages. But a bot that removes or replaces archive today has my support, regards Atlantic306 (tauk) 21:27, 13 October 2026 (UTC)

Alright, I'll continue to prepare the script. I will begin doing some tests on pages with archive.today links; if they end up accidentally doing something wrong, I will self-revert. Grilledcheeseisgreat (tauk) 11:44, 14 October 2026 (UTC)

It's coming along pretty well, just added a reliable source scanner, and it works. You can see in my log an unsuccessful and then successful scan of Ceety o Wastmeenster, the second one noting an unreliable source. Now that I've built in the scanning capability, I could leave it as is, merely logging them, or I could delete them, delete only the ones that both are unreliable and have archive.today citations, or whatever else we need. Grilledcheeseisgreat (tauk) 12:00, 15 October 2026 (UTC)

Could you delete all archive today links that cannot be replaced by internet archive links? Atlantic306 (tauk) 23:27, 15 October 2026 (UTC)

Sure. I'm running out of time so I'll have to implement that tomorrow during the final preparations, but it won't be too much trouble. Grilledcheeseisgreat (tauk) 23:36, 15 October 2026 (UTC)

Implemented! I ran a scan over Category:Inglis-leid films and it updated a few articles, and all edits went as expected. Haven't checked the links it replaced themselves yet (I will later if someone else doesn't first) but it does seem to work. The only real change I'll have to make now before running a scan of the whole wiki is making it faster, which shouldn't be too bad. Grilledcheeseisgreat (tauk) 16:21, 16 October 2026 (UTC)

@CiphriusKane It's completely ready now. I made it a lot faster and all the other changes I wanted to make, as well as improved logging including timestamps. You can see it at Uiser:Grilledcheeseisgreat/archivelog. Whenever you approve I'll happily do it, or if you want to, you can add it to your common.js and do it yourself. Grilledcheeseisgreat (tauk) 22:24, 16 October 2026 (UTC)

• Note tested its full wiki scan functionality, let it run for about 10 seconds before closing the tab as I don't have permission. Confirmed that it's fully ready.

Grilledcheeseisgreat (tauk) 00:26, 18 October 2026 (UTC)

@CiphriusKane It's complete. Once you give me the green light I'll make final preparations and run the script (probably tomorrow). Might make a couple adjustments until then but it's overall ready. Grilledcheeseisgreat (tauk) 23:17, 15 October 2026 (UTC)

(en) Sorry, been out for a bit and was just catching up on what's been happening. What is Uiser:Grilledcheeseisgreat/replacer.js meant to be? It's kinda ringing alarm bells for me CiphriusKane (tauk) 19:35, 16 October 2026 (UTC)

I'm not gonna use it, it's for future use (and even then I don't knwo if it'll ever be needed) Grilledcheeseisgreat (tauk) 19:46, 16 October 2026 (UTC)

A'm really nae happy anent iss. Iss is exactly fit happent the last time sumbidy decidit aat they cid eese a bot ti dae ae hing aat wisna ti dae wi text replacement. They wint an makkit a gadget aat did text replacement CiphriusKane (tauk) 19:53, 16 October 2026 (UTC)

I personally won't be using it anytime soon. Grilledcheeseisgreat (tauk) 19:54, 16 October 2026 (UTC)

Also it's not a bot, it's a script that needs manual activation. Grilledcheeseisgreat (tauk) 19:56, 16 October 2026 (UTC)

Disable it! Ye didna spik wi onybody afore makkin iss. Ye wis gien remit ti replace archive today airtins, nae ti mak a script ti commit the same mess aat's happent ower the past tenyeir CiphriusKane (tauk) 20:00, 16 October 2026 (UTC)

It's not connected to my archive.js so I can't disable it as it was never enabled in the first place. I could take it off the wiki if you want, then once I'm done you delete it and the doc page. Grilledcheeseisgreat (tauk) 20:03, 16 October 2026 (UTC)

Ay, aat is fit a wint CiphriusKane (tauk) 20:06, 16 October 2026 (UTC)

Alright, it's on my personal google drive, you can delete both pages now. Grilledcheeseisgreat (tauk) 20:06, 16 October 2026 (UTC)

Sorry about that, it won't happen again. Grilledcheeseisgreat (tauk) 20:16, 16 October 2026 (UTC)

just made a documentation page for it Grilledcheeseisgreat (tauk) 19:47, 16 October 2026 (UTC)