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The Morning After: Meet LG’s face-hugging personal air purifier – Engadget
LG’s PuriCare Wearable Air Purifier is much more than a mask, and it turns out that nearly half of the Scots-language version of Wikipedia was edited by someone who doesn’t know how to speak or write in Scots.
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A US teen wrote 27,000 Wikipedia entries in a language they don’t speak
Do I have to admire the work ethic?
A reminder that not every Wikipedia editor is an expert in their field. Earlier this week, a Reddit user discovered that in the Scots language version of Wikipedia, almost half (literally 49 percent) was written by a teen in North Carolina, who in fact can’t speak one of the indigenous languages of Scotland. Unsurprisingly, they didn’t do a great job, relying on faulty online tran…
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