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
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