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Walcome

Braw that ye're here Johnshanks! Walcome til the Wikipedie in Scots: the first encyclopedie in the Scots leid!

Guid tae see ye. Some gibbles ye'll find uissfu:

• Aboot Wikipedie - whit it is an isna.

• Gin ye are interestit in writin airticles we bid ye hae a read o wir page anent writin Scots. Ye micht aiblins find thir dictionars helpfu.

• Tae find oot hou tae gang aboot editin an stairtin airticles, gang til the Wikipedie Lessons.

• For tae caw the crack anent the technical wirkins o the Wikipedie, gang til the Mercat Cross.
• Bi gaun throu the Commontie Yett ye'll can find aw kynd o wittins adae wi uisin an eikin til the Wikipedie.

• For tae hae a sey shottie, veesit oor Saundpit.

Dinna haud yer wheesht, haud yer ain!

Varlaam (talk) 15:24, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Whit say ye?

(in Inglis) Any opinions about my changes? Varlaam (talk) 18:00, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Naw, dinnae bother yersel. A'm happy fir ithers tae leuk ower ma werk. It's been a lang time since a've haed tae dae ony werk in braid scots, no since schul or readin oor wullie. It's guid it's mair part o the schul curriculum in Scotland noo than e'en frae when ah wis there. The ony proablem ave got is proper grammar an spellins. Ah suspect that ther wis no real consolodation o the lied comparit wae inglis cos o the similarities and proximity o the taw leids. The mair frequently uist in a written form in no jist spokt in touns an in local dialects the mair uniform it'll become. Ah hink that maist scots are awfy uist tae writin in inglis wen they hink in scots.

(in Inglis) I have my Collins Gem Scots Dictionary here, and it is not the only one trying to impose a spelling standard on Scots. But as I know from reading the articles here, the tradition is still very much to write as you speak, and that changes by city and region, as you know better than I.

I'm Canadian and I'm interested in the tongue. I enjoyed a Burns Night years ago, at an upscale restaurant here. (The chef/owner is from Norwich, but his wife is Scots.) You wish you could appreciate Burns' words better. He is a major poet of the British Isles after all.

At present, sadly, there is no prominent Scots editor here. The major content creators at present are North Americans and Continentals (surprisingly).

It would be fantastic if a genuine Irn Bru-louin Scot could be a significant contributor here.

We have our lists of articles marked with the "fixscots" and "noscots" tags. Many of our stub articles are 1 or 2 sentences of "Scots", done in very good faith, but by non-speakers.

If you yourself, or friends, have a little time, there is a lot that could be done.

The North Americans who write the majority of articles would benefit from having their efforts made smoother and more idiomatic by a native speaker.

In Toronto, Varlaam (talk) 19:12, 15 October 2012 (UTC) (my last visit to Scotland was 40+ years ago)