Wikidata:WikiProject Higher education/Scope
WikiProject Higher education
Coverage[edit]
Wikidata should be relatively complete in listing major academic institutions, but there may be gaps by type or by country. The following are the current counts as of March 2017:
Counts by Type[edit]
Query:
select ?type ?typeLabel (COUNT(*) as ?count) where {
?item wdt:P31 ?type .
?type wdt:P279* wd:Q4671277 .
SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en" . }
} group by ?type ?typeLabel order by desc(?count)
Note that there may be some double-counting if an item has more than one P31 statement.
Counts by Country[edit]
Query:
select ?country ?countryLabel (COUNT(*) as ?count) where {
?item wdt:P31/wdt:P279* wd:Q4671277 ;
wdt:P17 ?country .
SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en" . }
} group by ?country ?countryLabel order by desc(?count)
It would be useful to have a reasonable source on the total number of higher education/academic institutions by country. Estimates are that there are a little over 4000 in the US (so we have most of those) but over 5000 in India (so we are missing the vast majority of those).
Ontology maintenance[edit]
The graph of subclasses is critical: any incorrect subclass of (P279) link can break a lot of tools. We can use graph visualizers to spot wrong links:
https://angryloki.github.io/wikidata-graph-builder/?property=P279&item=Q4671277&mode=reverse