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> But how many paid wikimedia employees are involved in the governance/moderation of the platform? Hopefully none, because each instance should govern/moderate

• rvba 2y ago
  How is the Scots wiki policing itself? For those who dont know one person made thousands of articles with some bot, that are poor translations from English. > the project contained an unusually high number of articles written in poor-quality Scots. They were written by a single prolific contributor, who was an American teenager. These articles consisted of mostly English instead of Scots vocabulary and grammar. It is claimed that the editor apparently used an online English–Scots dictionary to translate parts of English Wikipedia articles word-to-word in disregard of its grammar. > Over 23,000 articles, approximately a third of the entire Scots Wikipedia at that time, were created by the editor. These articles have been described as "English written in a Scottish accent," with gibberish and nonsensical words and spellings not present in any Scots dialect. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_Wikipedia