Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia should not be confused with Scots Wikipedia.
| Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia | |
| Url: | http://gd.wikipedia.org/ |
| Commercial: | No |
| Type: | Internet encyclopedia project |
| Language: | Scottish Gaelic |
| Registration: | Optional |
| Owner: | Wikimedia Foundation |
The Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia (Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: Uicipeid, in Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic pronounced as /ˈuçkʲɪpetʲ/) is Scottish Gaelic version of Wikipedia. As of, it contains articles and has editors.[1]
The encyclopedia was founded in 2004.[2] 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.[3] Working with community groups, she created help pages and worked to attract more editors.[4] [5] The grant was sponsored by Wikimedia UK and Bòrd na Gàidhlig.
At one point, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig offered a module teaching students how to edit Uicipeid.[6]