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