Cartooning from the Margins: Digital Exhibits on Newspaper Cartoonists

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…