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Neeps and tatties

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
adminAuthor admin Posted on 31 January 2026 Category ScottishCulture Tags 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
adminAuthor admin Posted on 15 February 2025 Category ScottishCulture Tags Language

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
adminAuthor admin Posted on 12 December 2024 Category SPARQL Tags Wikidata Gaidhlig Language

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
adminAuthor admin Posted on 07 November 2024 Category SPARQL Tags Wikidata Gaidhlig Language

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
adminAuthor admin Posted on 02 November 2024 Category Fediverse Tags bot Gaidhlig language

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