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After Canmore

This announcement changes the territory for references common across Wikipedia and Wikidata. In terms of English Wikipedia, there are templated references for both Canmore and HES, which can be Read more
adminAuthor admin Posted on 24 May 2025 Category SPARQL Tags ScottishHistory

Pub crawl

Pub crawl
Seeing in the Wikidata update that CAMRA Pub IDs had now been loaded as an identifier, I queried for those with the ID in Scotland. It is quite a detailed map, with colour-coding often designating Read more
adminAuthor admin Posted on 09 May 2025 Category ScottishInfrastructure Tags Civics

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