Scots is not a “language construct”. Whatever you mean by that. Scots speakers are interested in re-writing the articles. They are requesting a mechanism for indicating that pages have been edited and corrected. Including a Special Page that lists uncorrected articles.
These resources should be supplied. I don’t want to have to keep asking. Surely this is one of our jobs. Michael > On 27 Aug 2020, at 20:57, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hoi, > I am in two minds about this one. Yes, the sco.wikipedia is a fiasco. > However, when we concentrate on what is bad, there will be people who will > obsess with using this mechanism on other Wikipedias. The Cebuano Wikipedia > comes to mind, Waray-Waray. > > Given language constructs, with a little bit of luck we can replace languages > structures that are wrong. We can ask the people of Abstract Wikipedia to > consider this. For them it is an exercise that is relatively easy (only one > language other than English) and it solves an actual problem. How do you like > this suggestion? > Thanks, > GerardM > > On Thu, 27 Aug 2020 at 20:33, Michael Everson <[email protected]> wrote: > On the Scots Language Forum on Wikipedia the following was said: > > One reads that a group of volunteers will endeavor to correct the Scots > Wikipedia pages. > Might it be a good idea if they were to flag the pages they have corrected, > or judged to be devoid of unreliable language, so visitors know whether a > page can be trusted or not ? > > A response was made: > > We certainly need a process for this. I think Wikipedia can do a lot of > flagging with automatic bots. > > There are two parties to this. One is WikiMedia and the various volunteer > admins, who have the tools and technical knowledge to deal with critical > incidents like this. The other is the Scots language 'community'. The online > discussion yesterday was mostly among the former, but they were clearly > looking for guidance from the latter on what to do > > ========== > > Can this be facilitated? > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom _______________________________________________ Langcom mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom
