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Will Kent-Carly
Will Kent is incredibly educated on wikidata and everything it has to offer. He mainly presented on what wikidata is, and how it can help students, researchers, and really anyone to find out information on really any given subject. He explained that wikidata is free and structured, so everyone has access to the site. One…
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Will Kent Reflection
From what I can remember through my experience of Will Kent’s presentation, he was teaching the class some of the basics of Wikidata. He taught us different ways in which we could use Wikidata to come up with data and visualizations for comics, comic artists, and comic writers. One thing that was very clear from…
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Blog post, Will Kent- Kylee Lewandowski
Will Kent Will Kent showed us the behind the scenes of Wikidata and how many different ways you can use the data when doing research. One thing I learned from Will Kent is the amount of detail and time that goes into each Wikidata page and the people who contribute are basically volunteering. They upload…
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Martin Will Kent
Will Kent presented on Wikidata and how the website works. He taught us how to enter information into the website and how to navigate the different tools. He explained how Wikidata is for us (the public) and how it makes complex data manageable. He also showed us SPARQL. As I mentioned in my critical creation,…
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Dji Bailey– Will Kent Reflection
Will Kent’s visit was helpful as I gained insight into how Wikidata works and how to use the tool. He explained the tools within Wikidata that further helped with my critical creation. Kent emphasized that Wikidata is for everyone where anyone can add, and edit information on anything within the database. It was a cool…
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Bailey Visualization Report
Critical Creation Male Data Set: https://w.wiki/7s6f or https://w.wiki/7s6h Female Data Set: https://w.wiki/7s6n or https://w.wiki/7ppk I decided to filter out superheroes within comics on the basis of gender. Starting my search I expected the underrepresentation of women as superheroes in comics. Most superheroes that we see are male characters. In this process, I made two graphs,…
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Blog Post – Tyrone Lee
Reflection on a Visit from Will Kent! The visit from Wikidata Education Specialist, Will Kent, was quite informative on the complex tool that is Wikidata. Will presented several different ways on how one can utilize Wikidata as well as craft it with code. I personally took away the different types of code that definitely assisted…
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Jamilah Ganyuma – Will Kent
Will Kent’s visit to our classroom was extremely helpful. His presentation was on the basics of Wikidata. He explained what the aim of the platform was, how the platform worked, and gave us the tools to be able to edit the platform. He also gave us an introduction to SPARQL. This reminded of chapter about…
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Will Kent
On September 27th, 2023 Will Kent, a Wikidata education specialist visited UR virtually to teach the class about the useful applications Wikidata. Kent started off with explaining the uses of Wikidata and went on to teach us about the search functions and its coding language SPARQL. A clear takeaway from Kents lecture is that Wikidata…
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Holden Habermacher – Will Kent Reflection Post
Will Kent was a welcome and wonderful presence in our class. He is bursting with knowledge about Wikidata and community-based databases and his enthusiasm brought dry readings about data collection to life. Kent encouraged our class to explore Wikidata on our own terms. Wikidata is created by and for its users, so we can put…