The Scottish Wikipedia was written by an American teenager who cant speak Scots

Amazing story worth the read, if true - I've not tried to verify it myself, but I see that The Guardian, VICE, Gizmodo and others are now running with the story too.

The scarier part is one of the Reddit comments by AppleGuySnake down the page:

"I found this thread from someone on twitter pointing out that several computer language models use the Scots Wikipedia as their dataset for learning the language."

who needs 10,000 monkeys when one can do? :)

On a more serious note this is the big downside to Wiki's - we have become far too casual in trusting "the crowd" will take care of basic vetting. In this case it happened to be a crowd of one until someone else noticed. That should be a reminder to everyone.

For all the fun poked today of old school resources like the Encyclopedia Britannica, they at least had a reputation to defend and thus were highly incentivized to be vigilant with quality control. And even then stuff still slipped through.

Is something being done about this?