Alternate headline: How one man spammed Wikipedia
The Scots wiki had the same problem. A teenage American who didn't speak Scots edited and created 10s of thousands of entries
For those not aware Scots is a Germanic language that split from Old English back about 700-800 years ago - closely related to modern english like frisian is, but also retaining many words lost to english (some of which are retained in Swedish / Dutch etc). It is distinct from standard scottish english.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language
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Articles on the fiasco
https://inews.co.uk/news/scotland/scots-wikipedia-language-articles-native-speaker-mistakes-610689
https://www.engadget.com/scots-wikipedia-230210674.html?_fsig=8ckIe_eK7juchNpKgsYQww--%7EA
Little better because this guy is actually machine translating it and not just typing what a Scottish accent sounds like phonetically lol
woah! i speak Cebuano, yet I didn't know a Cebuano Wikipedia exists :0
Time to start editing....
Better than nothing I guess.
Unless it's inaccurate, in which case it's worse than nothing
Lsjbot generates articles by taking information from online databases, mostly on biology and geography, and fitting the data into a set number of pre-written sentences.
Volunteers who create and maintain Wikipedia, called Wikipedians, found many of the Cebuano-language pages had grammatical and sometimes factual errors, thanks to imperfect translations.
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