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air conditioning

primarily cooling (but also warming or drying) of air in buildings or vehicles using a heat-pump
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Summary

air conditioning ranks in the top 0.68% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,119 views/month, #527 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: physical process[2]
  • Has use: indoor air quality[3], thermal comfort[4], cooling[5]
  • Commons category: Air conditioners[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Air conditioning[7]
  • Described by source: Encyclopedia of American Urban History[8], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[9], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[10]
  • Uses: air conditioning equipment[11]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Climate change[12], Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[13]

Why It Matters

air conditioning has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 115 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 10w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Uses → air conditioning equipment
    Wikidata description → primarily cooling (but also warming or drying) of air in buildings or vehicles u
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-and-other-short:0||fr, es, en, en-gb */ Cleanup: remove wikimedia+self_stated_in refs; remove alias=label/mul ([[User:Difool/WikidataCleanup]])"
  2. 11w ago · Back ache · 2026-07-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described at url → https://www.msn.com/en-my/weather/climate-change/environmentalists-say-you-shoul
    Harper's tag → air-conditioning
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Described at url: https://www.msn.com/en-my/weather/climate-change/environmentalists-say-you-shouldn-t-have-air-con-this-is-why-they-re-wrong/ar-AA287Mrp"
  3. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → ['1i1lbX', '4BgWhg']
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  4. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0343730-klimatizace
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0343730-klimatizace, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  5. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has use → indoor air quality, thermal comfort, cooling
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 2089750
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → physical process
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 6628, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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