Wikidata:Property proposal/number of majors offered
number of majors offered[edit]
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Organization
| Description | Provides a count of the number of different majors offered by an institution of higher education. |
|---|---|
| Data type | Number (not available yet) |
| Template parameter | I don't think any currently, but could conceivably be added to en:template:infobox university |
| Domain | Instance of higher education institution (Q38723) or a subclass |
| Allowed values | Non-negative integer |
| Allowed units | None |
| Example 1 | Harvard College (Q49123) → 50 |
| Example 2 | Yale College (Q2599077) → 80 |
| Example 3 | Pomona College (Q7227384) → 48 |
| Source | https://college.harvard.edu/academics/liberal-arts-sciences
https://admissions.yale.edu/majors-and-academic-programs https://www.pomona.edu/academics |
| Planned use | I'd like to use the Wikidata template to define the number of majors offered at a few colleges I follow. |
| See also | students count (P2196) |
Motivation[edit]
As a kind of early test of how ready Wikidata is to support Abstract Wikipedia, I'm trying to set up simple:Pomona College so that every potentially fluctuating value is encoded at Wikidata and the page will need no updating. The majors count appears not to have any representation in Wikidata yet, so I'd like to add it, after doing so was suggested to me at the Project Chat. It will be useful since the number of majors at a college or university varies over time, so it will help to be able to update it at the central repository here rather than having to do so in every language of a page. This is my first property proposal, so please let me know if I need to provide any additional information, and feel free to modify the proposal if I messed anything up. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 19:28, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
Discussion[edit]
Weak oppose Better to list all individual majors offered.--GZWDer (talk) 01:04, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
- @GZWDer: I'm not sure whether or not we have a property for "major offered". Do you know of any? {{u|Sdkb}} talk 01:27, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
- @NMaia: do you? If that's your perspective, could you consider voting for it as an alternative rather than a straight oppose? {{u|Sdkb}} talk 14:13, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
- @Sdkb: I'd support this proposal if it was reworked to be 'majors offered' instead. I don't think there are any properties that describe that relationship. NMaia (talk) 10:01, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
- @NMaia: do you? If that's your perspective, could you consider voting for it as an alternative rather than a straight oppose? {{u|Sdkb}} talk 14:13, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
- @GZWDer: I'm not sure whether or not we have a property for "major offered". Do you know of any? {{u|Sdkb}} talk 01:27, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
Support listing all majors is better, but we also have "number of children" if we don't want to list all Germartin1 (talk) 13:54, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
Oppose per GZWDer. NMaia (talk) 01:50, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
Comment I'm not really convinced that this makes a lot of sense as a metric. Is it comparable across time or between institutions? As mentioned, it hasn't made it into w:Template:Infobox university. --- Jura 11:50, 14 November 2020 (UTC)- @Sdkb, GZWDer, NMaia, Germartin1:
Not done if you want to access information it would be better in a newly proposed "major offered" property. ChristianKl ❪✉❫ 15:31, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
