Haha .. this is the Scottish Wikipedia ..  
https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

As it happens, almost all of the Scottish Wikipedia, with more than 57,000 
articles,
was written by someone who obviously has nae the slightest idea of the language.

That’s right, someone doing a bad impression of a Scottish accent, and then 
writing
it down phonetically, is a chief maintainer of their online Wikipedia Scottish 
edition.

And .. they have been doing this for the best part of a decade.

Eg: Here’s the entry for Australia and it’s not in the Scottish language. 
Hahahahaha!

https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australie

“Australie, offeecially the Commonweel o Australie, is a kintra situatit in the 
Soothren Hemisphere conseestin o the mainland o the Australien continent (the 
weest in the warld), the island o Tasmanie an puckle smawer islands in the 
Indian an Paceefic Oceans. Neebourin kintras include Indonesie, East Timor an 
Papua New Guinea til the north, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu an New Caledonia 
til the northeast an New Zealand til the sootheast.

Fer at least 40,000 years afore European dounset in the late 18t century, 
Australie wis wonet bi indigenous Australians. Australie's eastren hauf wis 
claimit bi Breetain in 1770 an ti stairt wi settelt throu penal transportation 
til the colony o New Sooth Wales, foondit on 26 Januar 1788. The indwallers 
nummer grew conseestently in thae follaein years; the continent wis explorit an 
an eik o five, maistly self-govrenin Croun Colonies war estaiblishit in the 19t 
century.

On 1 Januar 1901, the sax colonies becam a federation an the Commonweel o 
Australie wis creatit. Syne Federation, Australie haes keepit a siccar liberal 
democratic poleetical seestem an is a Commonweel kinrick. The nummer o 
indwellers is 22 million, wi aboot 60% in an aroond the mainland state 
caipitals o Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth an Adelaide. The naition's 
caipital ceety is Canberra, locatit in the Australian Caipital Territory.”

https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/26/scots_wikipedia_fake<https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/26/scots_wikipedia_fake/>


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