Wikidata:Property proposal/generation time

generation time edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Natural science

Done: generation time (P3337) (Talk and documentation)

Description	average time from one generation to another within the same population
Represents	generation time (Q5532608)
Data type	Quantity
Domain	organism (Q7239)
Allowed values	minute, hour, day, week, month, year
Allowed units	minute (Q7727), hour (Q25235), day (Q573), week (Q23387), month (Q5151), year (Q577)
Example	HIV type 1 (Q18907320) → 1.2 days, according to Coalescent estimates of HIV-1 generation time in vivo (Q27685472)
Source	medical and scientific literature
Planned use	on items about infectious agents, this information could inform epidemiological models; may need to be used with a qualifier like determination method (P459) to indicate how the value was calculated, and possibly
Robot and gadget jobs	hopefully at some point, but there are no obvious databases to pull the information from

Motivation

The generation time (Q5532608) is a key parameter often used in epidemiological modeling. Its definitions and means of determination vary, so we may have to keep track of them. Not sure how best to go about this, but I guess determination method (P459) could be an option here.

Notified participants of WikiProject Medicine. Daniel Mietchen (talk) 09:21, 4 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Support --Tobias1984 (talk) 09:26, 4 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support Useful. Escudero (talk) 10:02, 4 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Question Is HIV type 1 (Q27685489) the same as HIV type 1 (Q18907320)? --Succu (talk) 11:03, 4 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes. Merged. I had suspected the item to exist but could not find it when I needed it. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 15:56, 4 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support -Emitraka (talk) 15:23, 7 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:44, 7 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support An interesting data value for layman and technical audiences. Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:02, 9 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support Should be useful. Sebotic (talk) 10:51, 10 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Daniel Mietchen:Datatype is time. Should be quantity? --Escudero (talk) 12:04, 11 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

- Good point. Fixed
  --- Jura 12:10, 11 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Done: @Daniel Mietchen, Tobias1984, Escudero, Emitraka, Bluerasberry, Sebotic: please make good use of it.
--- Jura 10:18, 11 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]