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