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What Value Example / Explanation
Proposal
Language code sco (SIL, Glottolog) A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ...
Language name Scots Language name in English
Language name scots Language name in your language. This will appear in the language list on Special:Preferences, in the interwiki sidebar on other wikis, ...
Language Wikidata item Q14549 - item has currently the following values:
 Item about the language at Wikidata. It would normally include the Wikimedia language code, name of the language, etc. Please complete at Wikidata if needed.
Directionality no indication Is the language written from left to right (LTR) or from right to left (RTL)?
Links Links to previous requests, or references to external websites or documents.
Site URL sco.wiktionary.org langcode.wikiproject.org

Settings
Project name "Wiktionary" in your language
Project namespace usually the same as the project name
Project talk namespace "Wiktionary talk" (the discussion namespace of the project namespace)
Enable uploads no Default is "no". Preferably, files should be uploaded to Commons.
If you want, you can enable local file uploading, either by any user ("yes") or by administrators only ("admin").
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Additional namespaces For example, a Wikisource would need "Page", "Page talk", "Index", "Index talk", "Author", "Author talk".
Additional settings Anything else that should be set
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Proposal

This Wiktionary will coincide with the Scots Wikipedia, which has over 2,000 articles. There is constant debate over spellings and dialects, so a Wiktionary will be a great aid to all contributors.

Scots is spoken in Lower and Mid Scotland, by over 1.5 million people. There are also 30,000 speakers in Northern Ireland, as well.

Discussion

Arguments in favour

Not morphing; wiktionary:frei[1], for example, is 15 years old now.--Prosfilaes (talk) 21:06, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Arguments against

  • Oppose. Scots words and their usages already have a place at the English Wiktionary. While there are very good reasons for our Scots Wikipedia, which is valuable as a collection of article-length texts in Scots, having a separate Wiktionary of sentence fragment definitions (what's the Scots for "noun" and "adverb"?), seems redundant to me when there are virtually no monolingual Scots speakers. I'll also note that English Wikisource covers historic documents from Scots, as well as from Middle and Old English, and I believe this is a more appropriate model for Wiktionary.--Pharos 18:31, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The Scots language is always changing, and as such a Wiktionary would be a brilliant asset to all Scots speakers, or even tourists who like the language and would like to learn. There are many speakers as wide as England, yet many cannot pronounce the words. So if they had a Wiktionary which is constantly updated, they could learn the correct pronunciation and retain a language which has become almost a tradition in Scotland. 86.152.77.7 20:09, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
As an English Wikisource administrator, if there's a community of Scots speakers wishing to do new translations into Scots, I would prefer that a Scots Wikisource be created for them and our current Scots texts moved there. As for "noun" and "adverb", according to "Grammar Broonie: A Guide Tae Scots Grammar", in Scots, they are "noun" and "adverb".--Prosfilaes 23:44, 20 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I don't still hold that opinion; I think it better that Scots stay on the English Wikisource, though if there were a body of translators into Scots, what they wanted and needed would have to go into the discussion. In the case of a Wiktionary, however, the two bodies can't coexist; either the definitions of words should be in either Standard English or Scots, not both or an inconsistent mixture.--Prosfilaes (talk) 19:02, 19 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

General Discussion

Pathos, no, there are no monolingual Scots speakers, but that's the beauty of a dictionary, to teach as well as give information. 86.132.237.64 20:23, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Will this be a Scots tae Scots dictionar or will it juist hae defineetions o Scots wirds in English? Gin aw its gaun tae be is a list o Scots wirds wi defineetions in English there's nae pynt acause o this. 84.135.221.245 18:12, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Naw, it's aw Scots. 86.148.186.227 20:11, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Localisation update

Currently 49.14% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.15% of the messages used in extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation have been localised at Betawiki. Thanks, GerardM 07:45, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Currently 37.73% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.10% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Localisation of these messages is a requirement before your request is finally assessed. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 13:21, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Currently 39.50% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.10% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Localisation of these messages is a requirement before your request is finally assessed. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. But Please do the most used messages first, they are the messages seem most by editors and readers ... Thanks, GerardM 23:58, 20 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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