For better and worse, Wikipedia is one of the places most of us go to when we want definitive information on a topic. But a recent scandal is highlighting one of the major pitfalls of the platform: ...

An American has written and edited thousands of articles on the official Wikipedia site for the centuries-old Scots language. The Wikipedia user AmaryllisGardener, an administrator for the site, has ...

The internet was ablaze earlier this week after it was discovered that the bulk of the Wikipedia pages for Scotland were written by an American teenager who doesn't even know the Scots language. A ...

This is one of those stories which seems like it might be a kind of “haha, how weird, the internet, am I right?!” type situation but which is actually pretty damned serious. It’s also only partially a ...

No True Scotsman: More than a third of the Scots language Wikipedia appears to have been written by someone with absolutely no knowledge of the Scots language. This has gone exactly as well as you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Scots spoken in Outlander may not be the language spoken today in Scotland, but rather a stage-Scots – essentially English ...