Wikidata:Property proposal/sessions per week

sessions per week

This 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

   Withdrawn

Description	Qualifier to set the number of sessions allocated per week.
Data type	Item
Domain	qualifier
Example 1	Mathematics Curriculum for Basic 7 (Q113556827) → 4 time allocation 60 hours edit sessions per week 4 0 references add reference add value
Example 2	Science Curriculum for Basic 7 (Q113646657) → 3
Example 3	Social Studies Curriculum for Basic 7 (Q113556931) → 2
Planned use	To show the frequency of a session per week. 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

This property will help us determine the number of sessions/periods/lessons that a particular curriculum is studied in a week. This shows a specific measure of session and its occurrence, sessions per week. duration (P2047) really works for showing the sessions 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 sessions per week an activity happens for or should happen for and its occurrence.

In the examples, Mathematics Curriculum for Basic 7 has 4 sessions per week (relative) in a school timetable. Science Curriculum for Basic 7 has 3 sessions per week, and Social Studies Curriculum for Basic 7 has 2 sessions per week. Dnshitobu (talk) 14:27, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

Discussion

•  Strong supportAbubakar280 (talk) 23:53, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
•  Strong supportAmuzujoe (talk) 13:19, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
•  Strong supportWarmglow (talk) 15:42, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
•  Strong supportOladipupo193 (talk) 07:50, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
•  Neutral In some universities, there are courses whose lessons are taught by having one week off. I don't know the English name for this concept, but when I was studying in the university, we had chemistry laboratory in week 1, week 3, week 5, ..., but not in week 2, week 4, nor week 6. This because we were so much students taking that course, and we all couldn't use the same laboratory at the same time, so we were split in two groups, we had that class in the same day of the week at the same hour, but in different weeks. This didn't happen only with this course, it also occurred in some other courses at my university. How would this scenario be handled with this property? Rdrg109 (talk) 20:14, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

  Do you think adding a constraint to the item will help answer you question?

  sessions per week - 2

  start time and end time? SPatnaik (WMF) (talk) 15:00, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

  @Rdrg109 That is also a valid point and clearly this property cannot accurately accommodate such a situation.

  In this case, we might want to add the total number of sessions in the semester and divide by the number of weeks to get the average number of sessions per week. However, hours per week and time allocation could help salvage the situation Dnshitobu (talk) 16:09, 23 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) 16:06, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

  This is better now. You should indicate that this property is conditionned to the creation of Wikidata:Property proposal/time allocation imo. 2A01:CB14:D52:1200:8054:85E8:3398:AFF1 17:38, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

  Well noted Dnshitobu (talk) 10:56, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

• 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) 23:36, 24 September 2022 (UTC)