Seeing Wikipedia articles for Ayrshire pre-steam-locomotive waggonways, I tried querying Wikidata to map these and other known ones at Tranent and Alloa. The map is unsatisfactory because of various Read more

Adding basic Wikidata info for "Edinburgh plague of 1585" got me looking at the level of data for other infectious outbreaks, and finding it a wee bit bare. Even the relatively recent "1964 Aberdeen Read more

After noting the Union Street fire in Wikidata, I revisited the previous query on disasters in the Glasgow area. It is now capturing more of the disastrous fires on the 1960s. A potential extension Read more

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

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

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From time to time, I have noticed that Wikidata records for Scottish Football teams are often wildly out of date about the manager.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