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BookBrainz

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Summary

BookBrainz is an online database[1]. BookBrainz draws 10 Wikipedia views per month (online database category, ranking #53 of 111).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: bibliographic database[3], website[4], social cataloging application[5], free software[6]
  • Maintained by: MetaBrainz Foundation[7]
  • Copyright license: GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later[8]
  • Programmed in: JavaScript[9], Python[10]
  • Software version identifier: 0.15.2[11], 0.15.3[12], 2015-12[13], 2016-02[14]
  • Has use: social cataloging application[15]
  • Official website: https://bookbrainz.org/[16]
  • Main subject: book[17], publication[18], author[19], magazine[20]
  • Source code repository URL: https://github.com/metabrainz/bookbrainz-site[21]
  • Issue tracker URL: https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/BB[22]
  • Depends on software: Node.js[23], PostgreSQL[24], Elasticsearch[25], Redis[26]
  • Official blog URL: https://blog.metabrainz.org/category/bookbrainz/[27]
  • IRC channel URL: irc://irc.libera.chat/bookbrainz[28], irc://irc.freenode.net/bookbrainz[29], irc://irc.freenode.net/bookbrainz-devel[30]
  • Main Wikidata property: P2607[31], P7823[32], P8063[33], P12048[34]
  • Hashtag: BookBrainz[35]
  • Search formatter URL: https://bookbrainz.org/search?q=$1[36]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikiproject Wikidata use[37], Cultural Heritage and GLAM catalogues[38]
  • Copyright status: copyrighted[39]
  • Official forum URL: https://community.metabrainz.org/c/bookbrainz[40]

Related Entities

book Elasticsearch free software JavaScript magazine Node.js PostgreSQL Python Redis website

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . openhub.net. openhub.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . github.com. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . github.com. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . github.com. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . github.com. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . bookbrainz.org. Retrieved . bookbrainz.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . BookBrainz. wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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  1. 2d ago · NMaia · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Maintained by → MetaBrainz Foundation
    Twitter → —
    Instance of → —
    Software version identifier → 0.15.2, 0.15.3, 2015-12 +1
    + 51 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-references:1||1|2 */ On focus list of wikimedia project: Wikiproject Wikidata use, Cleanup: add external ID to reference ([[User:Difool/WikidataCleanup]])"
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