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Scots Wikipedia
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Scots-language edition of Wikipedia
Key facts
- Type of site
- Internet encyclopaedia
- Available in
- Scots
- Owner
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Url
- sco.wikipedia.org
- Commercial
- No
- Registration
- Optional
- Users
- 131,150 users, 3 administrators as of 3 June 2026
- Launched
- 23 June 2005 ; 20 years ago ( 2005-06-23 )
- Content license
- Creative Commons Attribution/, Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL ), Media licensing varies
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Wikipedia
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Scots Wikipaedia
- Official website
- sco.wikipedia.org
- Image
- Scots Wikipedia screenshot 5 April 2016.png
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- Commons category
- Scots Wikipedia
- inception
- 2005-06-23
- Wikimedia language code
- sco
- number of records
- 34158
- API endpoint URL
- sco.wikipedia.org/w/api.php
- DuckDuckGo bang
- wsco
- random page URL
- sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
Sources (2)
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Article
The Scots Wikipedia (Scots: Scots Wikipædia) is the Scots-language edition of the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. It was established on 23 June 2005, and it reached 1,000 articles in February 2006, and 5,000 articles in November 2010. It has now 34,222 articles and is the 115th-largest Wikipedia.
The Scots Wikipedia is one of nine Wikipedias written in an Anglic language or English-based pidgin or creole, the others being the English Wikipedia, the Simple English Wikipedia, the Old English Wikipedia, the Tok Pisin (Papuan Pidgin) Wikipedia, the Jamaican Patois Wikipedia, the Sranan Tongo Wikipedia, the Nigerian Pidgin Wikipedia, and the Ghanaian Pidgin Wikipedia.