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I'm sorry to see all the interviewees regard ordinary "information" as the reason they focus on English Wikipedia (I note they refer to it as the "main" Wikipedia and not by its language). I would hope they would consider contributions to Scots Wikipedia as a means of cultural preservation. There may be a multitude of cultural codes (language, ideas, cultural understanding, etc., even jokes) that are endemic to Scots that are not conveyed appropriately by other languages. Even the idea that they are more comfortable in English underscores how they should make the extra effort to contribute to Scots Wikipedia more frequently. kosboot (talk) 11:13, 18 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure that that's an entirely representative impression of what's said above. There's some diversity in the responses and classifying the comment of one editor as being what "they refer to" is not warranted. I don't see anyone commenting about being more comfortable in English or otherwise. Mutt Lunker (talk) 11:34, 18 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Scottish Gaelic language (not to be confused with the Scots language) had 57,000 speakers in Scotland in 2011, and the Scottish Gaelic version of Wikipedia (https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prìomh-Dhuilleag) has 17,273 articles. Editors who speak Scottish Gaelic are categorized in Category:User gd.
—Wavelength (talk) 17:02, 18 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]