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Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
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| Available in | Scottish Gaelic |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| URL | http://gd.wikipedia.org/ |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 2004; 21 years ago (2004) |
Content license | Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed underGFDL) Media licensing varies |
TheScottish Gaelic Wikipedia (Scottish Gaelic:Uicipeid,[ˈuçkʲɪpetʲ]) is theScottish Gaelic version ofWikipedia. As of 23 November 2025, it contains 16,017 articles and has 31,172 editors.[1]
The encyclopedia was founded in 2004.[2][3] In 2017, Susan Ross was hired by theNational Library of Scotland (NLS) to develop and promote the encyclopedia, a part time position that lasted 12 months. The NLS intended to augment its Gaelic resources following a digitization drive that put Gaelic-language materials on the Internet. Ross is a second-language speaker of Gaelic who learned the language as a teenager and completed a doctorate inGaelic studies. She has been editing Uicipeid since 2010.[4][3][5] Working with community groups, she created help pages and worked to attract more editors.[2][5] The grant was sponsored byWikimedia UK andBòrd na Gàidhlig.[3]
At one point,Sabhal Mòr Ostaig offered a module teaching students how to edit Uicipeid.[6]
