Returning to a previous topic (here and here) about how to use a language without having one's mistakes consumed and regurgitated by LLM crawlers, a way ahead may be to focus on the Gaidhlig news Read more

I celebrated the extra hour from the clock change by enhancing Wikidata for Scottish scheduled monuments which have a Wikipedia article but no linked image. I used a Petscan query based on the Read more

After a couple of failed attempts in recent years to install Linux on my decade-old Windows 10 laptop, I finally switched to Linux with KDE a fortnight ago. What this process into the unfamiliar Read more

Adapting a previous Commons query, I added another option to the Scottish Lost Places bot, so that it can now present a civic artefact: a fountain or a mercat cross. It does occur to me that a Read more

A Petscan query based on Wikipedia Scottish artist categories, filtering for those with a Commons category, gives this. This may be an opportunity to increase the links from Wikipedia articles to Read more

The Petscan described here helped diminish the Scotland-related Wikidata items without any properties down to a manageable size. Taking the category query down to a depth of 4 resulted in a Read more

From time to time, I have noticed that Wikidata records for Scottish Football teams are often wildly out of date about the manager. Sometimes an item's P286 property has only the name of someone who Read more

Now that Canmore has been replaced by trove.scot, as previewed here, the result looks unfortunate. Although HES have retained the same index number for items, they have not provided a soft-landing Read more

I previously wrote about a tabular query on public art in Scotland which I placed on Wikimedia Commons. While developing more data content, I discovered a Wikidata list/Gallery with creator row Read more

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