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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

Local museums

Local museums
The Easter weekend is when some volunteer-run local museums in Scotland open for the summer, so I generated a map to see which are on Wikidata This is a clickable map of local and specialist museums Read more
adminAuthor admin Posted on 23 April 2025 Category ScottishCulture Tags Wikidata

Art spaces

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
adminAuthor admin Posted on 15 April 2025 Category ScottishCulture Tags Wikidata

Filling the gaps

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
adminAuthor admin Posted on 07 March 2025 Category ScottishHistory Tags Wikidata Petscan Quickstatements

Small languages vs. large language model churn

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
adminAuthor admin Posted on 15 February 2025 Category ScottishCulture Tags Language

Public art

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
adminAuthor admin Posted on 13 February 2025 Category ScottishCulture Tags WikimediaCommons

Beeching and South Lanarkshire

Beeching and South Lanarkshire
Seeing in this OTD post the range of stations in South Lanarkshire which were closed on 4 January 1965, it was striking how much impact this must have made on the isolation of these communities. Read more
adminAuthor admin Posted on 05 January 2025 Category ScottishInfrastructure Tags Leaflet OpenStreetMap
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