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 |
The Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia ( Scottish Gaelic: Uicipeid, [ˈuçkʲɪpetʲ]) is Scottish Gaelic version of Wikipedia. As of 27 April 2024, it contains 15,957 articles and has 28,484 editors. [1]
The encyclopedia was founded in 2004. [2] [3] In 2017, Susan Ross was hired by the National 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 in Gaelic 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 by Wikimedia UK and Bòrd na Gàidhlig. [3]
At one point, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig offered a module teaching students how to edit Uicipeid. [6]