Wikidata:Property proposal/hours per week
hours per week
editThis property was requested after extensive consultation with the Wikidata community and experts on ed tech, OER, global and national curriculum, education policy, and digitization. Over the two rounds of the consultation, we received input from 31 individuals representing various global perspectives and areas of expertise to aid in the full implementation of the Wikidata for Education project.
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Generic
Description | qualifier to show the total number of hours per week. | ||||||||||||||||
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Data type | Quantity | ||||||||||||||||
Domain | quantity | ||||||||||||||||
Example 1 | English studies (Q27968) → 4
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Example 2 | social studies (Q14565700) → 5 | ||||||||||||||||
Example 3 | information and communications technology (Q5268834) → 3 | ||||||||||||||||
Planned use | To emphasize the hours spent per week. Just using hours or duration (P2047) does not give clarity to whether it is per day, per week or month or per year. Read more about the data model WD4E Data Model. Check out How it is used in the test environment Q223773. | ||||||||||||||||
Wikidata project | Wikidata for Education |
Motivation
editThis property will be used to determine the amount of hours that are spent on a particular subject/course/module in a week by an instructor. This property will help in comparisons such as determining the time spent on one subject against another, or the amount of time spent on a specific subject in different countries. Again, it could be used in other jurisdictions to indicate the number of hours required per week.
This shows a specific measure of time and its occurrence, hours per week. duration (P2047) really works for showing the duration but can get confusing. The user cannot express the occurrence of the activity using just duration (P2047). In this case, this property will allow one to state, the number of hours per week an activity happens for or should happen for and its occurrence. In the examples (relative figures), English language is supposed to be taught 60 hours with 4 hours study time per week (Hours per week), Social studies is having a total time allocation for 50 with 5 hours per week and Information and communication Technology which has a total time allocation of 40 has a 3 hour per week tuition. Dnshitobu (talk) 11:28, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
Discussion
editComment Wouldn't duration (P2047) be sufficient? Abbe98 (talk) 10:51, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
- duration (P2047) would be limiting. It does not state the occurrence. This property specifies the occurrence using the 'per week' phrase. Thank you for the comment. It is great. Andrews Lartey (talk) 22:57, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
- I wonder if a qualifier could do the trick instead to ensure the modeling works for more cases. For your use case one could for example consider curriculums that are based around the total number of hour rather than hours per week(like in Scandinavia). Abbe98 (talk) 15:17, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
- A qualifier could do the trick. It is worth considering how adding this will change the structure of the model. Please let me know if you have further recommendations whiles I provide update on the changes to the model and its feasibility soon. Andrews Lartey (talk) 20:51, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
- I wonder if a qualifier could do the trick instead to ensure the modeling works for more cases. For your use case one could for example consider curriculums that are based around the total number of hour rather than hours per week(like in Scandinavia). Abbe98 (talk) 15:17, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
Support
- Strong support Sir Amugi (talk) 23:04, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
- Strong supportAbubakar280 (talk) 23:25, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
- Strong supportHasslaebetch (talk) 16:01, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
- Strong supportAmuzujoe (talk) 13:04, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
- Strong supportWarmglow (talk) 15:37, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
- Strong supportOladipupo193 (talk) 07:41, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
- Strong supportJemima2019 (talk) 23:19, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
- Currently the examples do not make sense. 2A01:CB14:D52:1200:A48C:CAB9:A6AB:8377 23:49, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you for taking time to look at the property. Please could you be more specific or at least give a recommendation. We are ever ready to welcome your suggestions so that we can better the current state of the property request. Dnshitobu (talk) 22:24, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
- If this proposed property is planned to be used as qualifier to an other property (existing or proposed) then link this property and correct the examples. 2A01:CB14:D52:1200:315F:D09B:F5EB:C51B 18:45, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
- It going to be used as a qualifier for Time allocation as it is stated in the above picture. You can see another qualifier (Sessions per week) usage here Dnshitobu (talk) 10:55, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
- So you want to mention in Wikidata that everybody in every country study social studies (Q14565700) 5 time per week since the start of humankind. Weird. 2A01:CB14:D52:1200:877:881B:E63B:7EC7 12:04, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you for making time to review our request. The values you see there are relative figures but the NaCCA, a body mandated to develop and implement curriculum, has the accurate values for the specific time allocation, sessions per week and hours per week for each subject.
- The constructive feedback and your comments are helping us to make improvement to the proposals. We would be happy to connect with you. We also want to remind you that you are making contribution through IP - it is exposing your IP address. Dnshitobu (talk) 16:23, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
- Comment Should these values actually be on generic the generic subjects and not on items specific for each education system? The numbers in the examples seems to come from Ghana so I would imagine we would have an item for "English studies in Ghana" and there have the proposed property? Abbe98 (talk) 14:01, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
- @Abbe98 Thank you for taking time to review our request. We have had some discussions with the advisory and we are no longer going forward with this request. We truly appreciate the comments because it has helped shaped the project for good. Dnshitobu (talk) 23:02, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
- @Dnshitobu if you want to withdraw the request please edit the status of the request to withdrawn. ChristianKl ❪✉❫ 20:23, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
- @Abbe98 Thank you for taking time to review our request. We have had some discussions with the advisory and we are no longer going forward with this request. We truly appreciate the comments because it has helped shaped the project for good. Dnshitobu (talk) 23:02, 24 September 2022 (UTC)