MD-88
Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Instrument
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 185; Flight Crew Total 14965; Flight Crew Type 6067
Deviation - Track / Heading All Types; Inflight Event / Encounter Wake Vortex Encounter
Flight Crew Regained Aircraft Control; Flight Crew Returned To Clearance
Environment - Non Weather Related
Shortly after takeoff; we encountered fairly significant wake turbulence from the aircraft in front of us. While recovering from this we turned on course. As we began our turn on the departure; we were queried by ATC to see if we were turning to the fix. We acknowledged that we were and ATC said okay. At no time did I think that we had exceeded any lateral boundaries of the departure and never did ATC mention to us that we had.
MD88 Captain reported encountering wake vortex on departure from ATL that possibly resulted in a track deviation.