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

At the start of 2024 I went looking for Scottish organisations with Mastodon accounts which already were or could be stored on their Wikidata record and found only 14: Surgeons' Hall Museum, Read more

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

Today was the first actual return from the Bot program which seeks to present On this Day information on the closures of Scottish railway stations. The first former station was Alyth Junction between Read more

After passing the John Logie Baird statue on the front at Helensburgh, I put together a query on inventors. But, whether seen on a map, a table or a graph, I am not sure this tells anything. What is Read more

After looking at a couple of Articles for Deletion on Wikipedia, I began looking at the information on Wikidata about distilleries, bonded warehouses, etc., and generated a map. Then I began to Read more

Creating an on-this-day Mastodon post to highlight the loss of an area service (usually associated with the Beeching cuts) has needed additional activity to extract information held in Wikipedia and Read more

In the 19th century several Scottish iron foundries became well-known for producing standardised objects, particularly civic fountains and bandstands. This Wikimedia Commons page utilises Listeria Read more