Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s knowledge ecosystem. The banner posted across Scots Wikipedia bears an important notice: “Followin recent revelations, Scots ...

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 ...

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 ...