Exploring dates and datable properties

Focus on datable properties used in the wikibase (for women).

Wikibase queries

See the Dates section of the example queries. (The query used here is similar to All the Dates for Women FSAs but for all women.)

Notes

A “datable” property is one that has at least one date (of any kind) associated with it somewhere in the wikibase. Some are “main” properties (including the must have properties dates of birth/death) but the majority are used in qualifiers.

The query is currently limited to pages about women (for manageability!) so it does not cover every possible datable property. I can expand this later.

TODO:

• differentiate <unknown value> from missing

Main properties

Here the undated should be all <unknown value> as the query doesn’t include women who haven’t had the property added at all. [Date of birth/death missing stats are covered here.]

property	name	count	% dated
P26	date of birth	581	100.00
P15	date of death	504	100.00
P131	had child in	266	96.73
P132	was married in (EDTF value)	170	91.40
P130	was married in (PIT value)	123	98.40
P133	was widowed in	82	98.80

Qualifiers

The query for qualifiers works slightly differently from that for main dates, and undated are a mix of <unknown value> (a minority) and unrecorded.

The full list of datable qualifiers including single instances.

property	name	count	% dated
P59	academic degree	210	87.50
P144	acknowledged for role	93	86.92
P127	applicant to	22	100.00
P24	attended	21	100.00
P83	collaborated with	11	8.59
P112	contributed to	69	58.47
P73	corresponded with	232	81.12
P124	curated (item)	1	1.72
P116	destroyed	1	100.00
P36	director of archaeological fieldwork	122	82.43
P146	director of expedition	8	100.00
P111	donor to	64	32.82
P94	educated at	543	89.16
P49	election to Council of CAS proposed by	1	100.00
P7	election to RAI proposed by	336	100.00
P16	election to SAL proposed by	112	100.00
P105	employed as	157	91.81
P18	employer	1	33.33
P13	exhibited at	319	99.07
P85	founded	8	61.54
P106	fundraiser for	4	66.67
P115	gave money to	17	70.83
P126	has personal connection to	4	6.67
P93	has works in the collection	1	5.88
P17	held position	693	88.62
P48	held position (free text)	23	85.19
P142	HISCO code for paternal occupation during adolescence	22	81.48
P89	illustrated in	3	50.00
P103	land-proprietor activity	8	61.54
P87	loaner to	57	95.00
P38	Member of Committee for Archaeological Fieldwork	1	100.00
P37	member of excavation during archaeological fieldwork	127	55.70
P113	organiser of	28	84.85
P120	performed at	17	100.00
P76	recorded in	105	29.33
P123	recovered (free text)	1	100.00
P29	resided at	1225	89.94
P99	seller to	4	50.00
P102	served on	322	94.99
P23	spoke at	1000	99.70
P95	student of	1	33.33
P148	travelled overseas for	1	100.00
P114	was collector of	1	1.04
P72	was delegate at (free text)	2	66.67
P71	was delegate at (item)	45	97.83
P65	was donor of	2	66.67
P75	was fellow of	145	58.47
P130	was married in (PIT value)	7	5.60
P67	was member of	1132	92.86
P101	work(s) published in	1427	93.51