At Burns Night, I noticed a strange phenomenon: the Wikidata item labels neeps as the Scots for turnip but the linked article on the rather challenged sco.wikipedia is to an article entitled Swade Read more
Tag: Language
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
Multi-lingual use of Wikidata
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
Labelling Gaidhlig
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
Expanding Bot across languages
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