Category: Will Kent Reflection

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Cori Nichols, Will Kent Blog Post

    Will Kent presented how Wikidata works and why it is so important and useful tool for every search engine. He talked about how internet tools like Google and Bing get a lot of their information from Wikidata. He also informed us about the different symbols and identification numbers on Wikidata and what they mean and…

  • Asia Garcia, Will Kent Blog Post

    Will Kent presented the reason for Wikidata and how it collects information. He also showed how the information from Wikidata influences other websites, such as Google and its knowledge panels. He mentions that Wikidata is a community-driven platform where people are able to input more information. The one clear takeaway I learned from Will Kent…