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We are delighted to invite Wikimedia affiliates, user groups, and community organizations worldwide to participate inWiki Loves Folklore 2026, an international initiative dedicated to documenting and celebrating folk culture across the globe.
About Wiki Loves Folklore
Wiki Loves Folklore is an annual international photography competition hosted on Wikimedia Commons. The campaign runs from1 February to 31 March 2026 and encourages photographers, cultural enthusiasts, and community members to contribute photographs that highlight:
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Hallo! A first noticed the Scots Wikipedia aboot a year ago, while A wis in Scotland. Recently, A've stertit editin on scowiki an gettin better acquaint wi hou the wiki works. While daein thae edits, A noticed a wheen recurring maintenance issues that could be handled mair easily wi simple automation. Tae help wi thae routine, low-risk tasks, A'm proponin BZPN bot. The full description o whit the bot daes (an disnae dae), alang wi its limits an configuration, is set oot atUser:BZPN/Bot. For transparency, the bot's source code is publicly availablehere. I'm happy tae adapt the bot’s behaviour based on community feedback. Thanks for yer time.Pingin @CiphriusKane here for visibility, as the maist active admin on sco.wiki recently.BZPN (tauk)21:58, 30 Januar 2026 (UTC)Reply
Fit is the soorce fur the "lexical analysis"? Pairt o the issue wi the wiki wis fur ower a tenyeir fowks wis eesin bots ti dae leiteral owersettins aat hid nae regaird fur Scots grammar, an fae the editin o yers aat a'v seen ye'v shawn the same signs an the first twa dynamic tasks leuk awfa lik it'd be daein the same hing. As fur the walcomin an non-Scots wairnin, fit een taks priority? We'r nae aafa keen ti be walcomin vandals an fowks jist here ti "correct grammar"CiphriusKane (tauk)09:55, 31 Januar 2026 (UTC)Reply
Aye, cheers for raisin thae concerns - they're quite fair. A'll switch tae English for clarity on the technical bits. About "lexical analysis": there is no AI, no machine learning, and no automatic translation involvedat all. The "lexical analysis" is strictly dictionary-based: the bot compares tokens against a static wordlist (e.g.dictionary.txt), which is part of thepublic source code (which I will update soon because I am constantly improving it). Based on these wordlists, the bot assesses whether the article is en-only, en-heavy or Scots. Anyone is free to inspect it, suggest changes, or improve it. If the dictionary is wrong, the bot is wrong - nothing is hidden or heuristic. Regarding dynamic tasks, I'm very aware of problems with literal grammar/typo ("Scotsification") bots. That's exactly why my bot doesnot generate Scots, doesnot rewrite sentences, and it doesnot apply replacements unless they are explicitly and manually approved. All word and header replacements live inUser:BZPN/Whitelist.json andonly run if the entry is explicitly listed, the match conditions are exact and the community has agreed to add it. No whitelist entry = no change. Welcomes on the other hand are only triggered after a first constructive content edit. The bot detects whether a user's first edit is a vandalism (e.g. has vulgarisms, blanking, special characters, etc.), and based on this, either welcomes the user or ignores them (because the BZPN bot is not an anti-vandal bot, so it doesn't revert edits). If the first edit is in English, the bot assumes GF and inserts both a welcome and a warning. In short: the bot is deliberately conservative, transparent, and designed to avoid repeating the mistakes of earlier bots. If there are specific safeguards you’d want added, I’m happy to discuss and adjust them. Ta again for the questions.BZPN (tauk)13:35, 31 Januar 2026 (UTC)Reply
Aye, A think there's still a wee bit o confusion here, sae A'll spell it oot as plainly as a can. The dictionary an the whitelist are twa completely separate things. Dictionary (dictionary.txt) is a static, read-only wordlist that the bot usesonly for classification. It disnae replace words, disnae rewrite text, disnae touch grammar. It simply checks if tokens in an article exists in the Scots wordlist, tae judge whether the text is en-only, en-heavy, or Scots. That's it. Example:fowk = people.
The dictionary wis originally built by me manually, by readin an checkin existin articles on scowiki, an collectin words actually used thair. It's no tied tae ony single published dictionary. It is fully configurable, an can be adapted tae ony variety or orthography o Scots that the community decides it want tae reflect. If a word isnae in the dictionary, the bot just treats it as non-Scots. Nae substitutionever happens here. Whitelist on the other hand is a separate, optional mechanism for explicitly approved replacements only. If an entry isnae on the whitelist, the bot willnever mak a change. The dictionary is not consulted at aw for whitelist actions. The goal o the whitelist is simple: standardisation,not translation. It exists tae ensure consistent, agreed-upon terminology for technical an structural elements o the wiki - no for content text. For example, the whitelist micht include fixed headers like"==See also==" → "==See forbye==". This isnae aboot stylistic preference or inventin Scots; it's aboot avoidin a mix o English an Scots in standard interface-like headers. Thae replacements are predictable, limited in scope, an identical every time. Nae whitelist entry = nae change. Nae community agreement = nae entry. The whitelist disnae interact wi the dictionary at aw, an it disnae apply tae article prose. It's a controlled tool for consistency, nae mair. Sae tae be absolutely clear:the bot never automatically converts English tae Scots. As for sources: baith the dictionary an the whitelist are open, public, an editable via the GitHub repository. Onybody is welcome tae review, challenge, improve, or propose changes. If the dictionary is wrang, the bot’s wrang - an that's precisely why it is transparent.BZPN (tauk)08:20, 2 Februar 2026 (UTC)Reply
Okay, sae it's biggit manually, aat wis aa a wis wintin ti ken. Wid the bot be able ti check/compare page history as weel gif it fins a airticle aat's maistlins Inglis? Gif it canna aat's fair eneuch, kin aye dae it manually insteid. A leukit inti haein a bot ti coonterack the constant Inglifyin o airticles fur a while sae a'm nae oppont ti issCiphriusKane (tauk)08:53, 2 Februar 2026 (UTC)Reply
Aye, that's the kind o thing a meant. The bot could be extended tae generate reports only - listin airticles that are maistly English based on the existin dictionary check, limited tae e.g. ae report per day wi aboot 50 pages, an excluding ony that already hae{{Fix Scots}} or{{No Scots}}; gif that soonds useful, gie me till the end o the week an A'll prototype it sae ye can see exactly hou it behaves, an gif no, that's fair eneuch an it can be left at that. Thank ye.BZPN (tauk)10:13, 2 Februar 2026 (UTC)Reply
@CiphriusKane: the bot is ready fur initial testin. A've implemented the report feature taelist airticles that are maistly English. It's worth mentionin that the bot can make mistakes, but only errors would be due tae missing words in the dictionary or airticles wi irregular header names/wikitext issues.BZPN (tauk)13:42, 7 Februar 2026 (UTC)Reply
A'v seen the testin an the latest roond o reports wis mair accurate nor it wis at furst an fand a heap ae historical vandalism as weel, sae a'm happy fur it ti keep makkin the reports. Nae seein ony issue wi lettin the bot dae a trial rin fur the ither tasks as weelCiphriusKane (tauk)11:32, 8 Februar 2026 (UTC)Reply
@CiphriusKane: thanks for the feedback an for monitorin the reports. The bot has nou completed a4-day supervised test period. A'm pleased tae say the behaviour wis stable an predictable. There were nae significant mistakes during the test period. Based on observations from recent chynges (i.e. vandalism), A've slightly refined the detection filters tae reduce false positives. The recent reports hae already been used by the bot for maintenance taggin. As clarified earlier, ony classification errors can only stem frae missing entries in the static dictionary or irregular wikitext/header structures. Unless there are objections, A intend tae request a permanent bot flag on Meta based on this test period. Of course, A remain happy tae adjust thresholds or safeguards if the community feels it necessary.BZPN (tauk)11:14, 12 Februar 2026 (UTC)Reply
Aye, thae edits arenae connected tae the bot at aw. They come fae ma personal on-wiki gadget:Uiser:BZPN/ScotsCheck, which A put thegither yestreen for ma workflow. It isnae a bot task, an it disnae rin automatically. It disnae translate onything. It simply gies me a popup interface tae apply manual whitelist entries, instead o typin or copyin them by haund in the code. Ye're welcome tae read thedescription an test it yersel if ye like:). Also, the bot itsel has been inactive for twa days nou, waitin for the flag.BZPN (tauk)23:59, 13 Februar 2026 (UTC)Reply
Except the whitelist isna appruived yet an seems gey seemlir ti fit fowks wis daein last tenyeir. Fir exemple it seys aat "ay" means "always", except iss is wrang, an seys aat the Scots fur based is "basit", excep basit means summat else entirely, amang ither hings. An kin ye explain the block on enwiki? A shid hae chackit aat afore giein appruivalCiphriusKane (tauk)00:08, 14 Februar 2026 (UTC)Reply
