SPARQLing Scottish history

After adding Glasgow Sculpture Studio to Wikidata I began looking at the extent to which it contains data items on other arts initiatives in Scotland. The map view is useful for seeing and fixing Read more

Using Petscan to look for Scotland-related Wikidata items which lack any properties (query link) gave a large number of cases. These were alleviated using Quickstatements to add basic properties: Read more

The problem of out-of-office email replies from translation services being copy-pasted as the sought translation has been seen in Welsh street signs and Scandinavian hospital signage. Rote Read more

Constructing a query on pieces of public art in Scotland using Wikidata and WikimediaCommons encounters Freedom of Panorama limitations. Sculptures are ok to depict but not painted murals, such as on Read more

For several weeks I have been experimenting with a Gaidhlig version of the Scotland's Lost Places bot, hoping to exploit the multi-lingual labels on Wikidata. The results on the dummy run haven't Read more

At the start of 2024 I went looking for Scottish organisations with Mastodon accounts which already were or could be stored on their Wikidata record and found only 14: Surgeons' Hall Museum, Read more

Although currently experimenting with a Gaidhlig version of the Scottish history bot, it was chance that I noticed that Wikidata for various locations which were originally loaded from HES/Canmore Read more

The migration of the Bot from botsin.space to mastodon.scot has gone without mishap, confirming the Fediverse portability principle. After doing a Create Account and email confirmation on the target Read more

Reviewing the Bot that presents items from Scottish History using Wikidata, it occurs to me that a relatively simple extension could exploit the inter-language labels in Wikidata to generate a Read more