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Are you buying Christmas presents from our shop? The last day for Christmas orders will be 15 December.

Dumfries and Galloway Gaelic map tea towels are still available!

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Clùd-soithichean Dhùn Phris is Ghall-Ghàidhealaibh

A bheil sibh a' ceannach tiodhlaicean Nollaige anns a' bhùth againn? Cùmaibh nur coimhne gur e an 15mh den Dùbhlachd an latha mu dheireadh airson òrdughan bùtha na Nollaig.

Tha mapaichean de dh’ainmean-àite ann an Dùn Phris is Gall-Ghàidhealaibh air clùd-soithichean rim faighinn!

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Right, can do Wikidata to Leaflet rather than relying on Commons' map - which is nice.
Search and filter next, and a whole lot of data entry at the weekend

Very self-conscious about that but not had time to change it! I got punted back to Dr once my base was returned to OIC rather than a specific school

And also perfect for my non-supply days too!

Yes please! Perfect for supply tomorrow

This is great!

Thanks - have done

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The Big Tree, Kirkwall was named Scotland's Tree of the Year in 2017
📷 Oliver Dixon
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big...

@pigsonthewing.org.uk I've added {{Wikidata Infobox}} to a category page for a plaque and added the inscription to its Wikidata item.
I thought the inscription would then display in the infobox but it doesn't. Is there a way to get that information from Wikidata to the category page?

Just one image so far
📷 Bill Boaden
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pa...

Brilliant, thanks!

Thanks! If you've got a photo of it, it would be great to have it on Commons. (It would actually be great to have as many of your photos on Commons as possible)
I've just checked and we can add time periods to the Location property on Wikidata, so we can record where it was and where it is now.

Screenshot of Wikimedia Commons category Trees in the Orkney Islands showing one category (Big Tree, Kirkwall (11F)) and 4 photos.

Thin on the ground
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Next, reasonably big job, is to get each of these a Wikidata entry with a transcription of their text

We now have a category for plaques in Orkney, which means we also have a map

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wikimap.toolforge.org?cat=Plaques_...

Cheers. Was getting in a muddled about what constitutes a plaque

@pigsonthewing.org.uk How should I categorise this on Wikimedia Commons? It's big and built into a wall. Historical marker?

Timelapse of last nights aurora #orkney #rousay #aurora 2/2

Will let you know when I get there

@matthew-blake.bsky.social Found Hesti Geo while working my way through Orkney photos on Wikimedia Commons:
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Having parted from my friend, I determined to visit some remote spot of Scotland, and finish my work in solitude. I did not doubt but that the monster followed me, and would discover himself to me when I should have finished, that he might receive his companion. With this resolution I traversed the northern highlands, and fixed on one of the remotest of the Orkneys as the scene of my labours. It was a place fitted for such a work, being hardly more than a rock, whose high sides were continually beaten upon by the waves. The soil was barren, scarcely affording pasture for a few miserable cows, and oatmeal for its inhabitants, which consisted of five persons, whose gaunt and scraggy limbs gave tokens of their miserable fare. Vegetables and bread, when they indulged in such luxuries, and even fresh water, was to be procured from the main land, which was about five miles distant. https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42324/pg42324-images.html

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Orkney features in Frankenstein: "I traversed the northern highlands, and fixed on one of the remotest of the Orkneys as the scene of my labours."
The isle - "being hardly more than a rock, whose high sides were continually beaten upon by the waves" - isn't mentioned by name.
#OrkneyAdvent

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I've created a category and added a photo to get the ball rolling
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor...

I've created a category and added a photo to get the ball rolling
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor...

Incredibly, there don't appear to be any photos of the Dancers in Orkney on Wikimedia Commons.
Let's get some on there.
Shetland has its own category - what better motivation is that

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Current favourite wikicommons category: Rainbows in the Orkney Islands

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📷 richard aram

A Pirate's Life - Walk in the footsteps of Orkney's Most Notorious Pirate. @thinkuhi.bsky.social Institute for Northern Studies is delighted to announce the launch of the John Gow Heritage Trail – a major new heritage trail for Orkney.

In partnership with J. Gow Rum

www.uhi.ac.uk/en/research-...