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A Language Committee member provided the following comment:

The proposal for closing the Greenlandic Wikipedia is accepted. Despite Greenlandic being an official language with roughly 60,000 speakers, the wiki has never developed a viable community: over the last two decades only one or two Greenlandic users have contributed, and there has been almost no growth in the last five years. Most articles are short or unintelligible, and machine-generated content—initially from experimental Greenlandic machine translators and more recently from AI tools like Google Translate—has frequently produced nonsense that could misrepresent the language. The sole active admin, with academic expertise in Greenlandic, has had to monitor and delete such content, but no sustainable community exists to safeguard the language. Given the risk of harm to the Greenlandic language, the seemingly negative attitude towards the project in Greenland, and the absence of genuine user activity, the project should be closed, with any remaining content moved to the Incubator for future use. --MF-W 20:53, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

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[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I assume they're trying to avoid another Scots Wikipedia situation here, where a low quality Wikipedia misrepresents the language?

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Is Scots Wikipedia really that bad? I was viewing a few pages in Scots and I was surprised how much of it I could read given how similar it is to English.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not familiar, but I assume from your description it must have been a horrible representation of the language because if you could understand it clearly it's not really a good representation of the Scottish tongue.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Soulg@ani.social 2 points 1 week ago

This is the bad one right? I can mostly follow it but a couple slang terms I kinda have to guess

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Basically a bunch of pages were written by an American teenager just using an English Scots dictionary, so it was written in basically English with improperly used Scots words

If you see an article with a heading like "the 'Scots' in this article wis written bi a body that hasna a good grip on the leid", it means it's written in fake Scots

Example: