Category: Will Kent Reflection
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Will Kent Assignment
Will Kent Reflection After listening to Will Kent speak and present to the class, I learned many things, especially about Wikidata. He walked us through intrusions on how to use Wikidata step by step which was very helpful for me. He touched upon ways we can visualize information and data we see, as well as…
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Will Kent – Nicole Burney
Will Kent spoke in depth about Wikipedia. He discussed the history, initiative to improve its reputation and how Wikidata sources from Wikipedia in multiple languages to make it available in more languages. By learning from Kent, as a class we were able to learn more about Wikipedia and Wikidata and how to utilize it in…
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Will Kent Assignment
While listening to Will Kent during the class presentation, it is clear that he is an educated guy. While listening to Mr. Kent, he talked about the history of Wikipedia articles and the initiatives to improve its equity and reputation. He talked about how Wikidata creates lists of articles missing from the English Wikipedia by…
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10/22 emma rubin
Will Kent discussed the origins of Wikipedia articles and the efforts to make Wikipedia more representative and equitable. He discussed how Wikidata taps into other language versions of Wikipedia to generate lists of pieces missing in English. Additionally, It allows instructors and students to create and track their contributions to Wikipedia. This effort is part…
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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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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…