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

The impending closure of botsin.space forces me to rethink what kind of service is appropriate for posting the daily Scottish Lost Places items. These posts are the outcome of a program which queries Read more

I started trying out ChartsCSS for visualising the data returned from staged queries in the browser, for example starting with selection from a pull-down of areas then displaying numeric results for Read more

Today was the first actual return from the Bot program which seeks to present On this Day information on the closures of Scottish railway stations. The first former station was Alyth Junction between Read more