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closed captioning

Summary

closed captioning ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (418 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • closed captioning is a type of subtitle[2].
  • closed captioning is a type of same language subtitling[3].
  • closed captioning is a type of accommodation[4].
  • closed captioning's Commons category is recorded as Closed captioning[5].
  • closed captioning's facet of is recorded as accessibility[6].
  • closed captioning's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/closed-captions[7].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include subtitle[2], same language subtitling[3], and accommodation[4].

Why It Matters

closed captioning ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (418 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] It is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

Related Entities

computer accessibility

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_closed-captioning_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{closed captioning}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/closed-captioning}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-11}}
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  1. 2d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Facet of → accessibility
    Aliases → —
    Twitch tag id → 8a01ea18-df97-4046-9cff-a9a822bb96e5
    Subclass of → subtitle, same language subtitling, accommodation
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 25451, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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