From time to time, I have noticed that Wikidata records for Scottish Football teams are often wildly out of date about the manager.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

Now that Canmore has been replaced by trove.scot, as previewed here, the result looks unfortunate. Although HES have retained the same index number for items, they have not provided a soft-landing Read more

I previously wrote about a tabular query on public art in Scotland which I placed on Wikimedia Commons. While developing more data content, I discovered a Wikidata list/Gallery with creator row Read more

This announcement changes the territory for references common across Wikipedia and Wikidata. In terms of English Wikipedia, there are templated references for both Canmore and HES, which can be Read more

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

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

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

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

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