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 ...

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 ...

Much of the Scottish-language version of Wikipedia is actually written by an American who doesn’t even speak the language — resulting in comically-bad entries that read like they came from ...

As of August 2025, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has 343 active language versions, including English and Japanese. Articles written in many languages are primarily about nations, with articles on ...

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 ...

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages? When Kenneth Wehr started ...

Last week, residents of Scotland voted not to break away from the U.K. in a much-anticipated referendum on Scottish independence. For those of us with a special fascination with culture and language, ...

There are some pretty great Wikipedia apps out there already (my favorite is Das Referenz, an iPad app which turns Wikipedia pages into what looks like 17th century book entries), but Wikipedia has ...

Errol Barnett is the anchor of the "CBS Morning News," streaming on CBS News 24/7, and CBS News national correspondent. He holds a distinct perspective on global events through a reporting career ...

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 ...