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comma-separated values

Summary

comma-separated values is a file format[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of file_format entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,423 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • comma-separated values's image is recorded as LibreOffice 7.2.4.1 Calc with csv screenshot.png[3].
  • comma-separated values's instance of is recorded as file format[4].
  • comma-separated values's instance of is recorded as delimiter-separated value format[5].
  • comma-separated values's subclass of is recorded as tabular data[6].
  • comma-separated values's Commons category is recorded as Comma-separated values (CSV)[7].
  • comma-separated values's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02hznc[8].
  • comma-separated values's media type is recorded as text/csv[9].
  • comma-separated values's file extension is recorded as csv[10].
  • comma-separated values's described by source is recorded as RFC 4180: Common Format and MIME Type for Comma-Separated Values (CSV) Files[11].
  • comma-separated values's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/csv[12].
  • comma-separated values's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/csv[13].
  • comma-separated values's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'CSV'}[14].
  • comma-separated values's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'CSV'}[15].
  • comma-separated values's Library of Congress Format Description Document ID is recorded as fdd000323[16].
  • comma-separated values's File Format Wiki page ID is recorded as CSV[17].
  • comma-separated values's Quora topic ID is recorded as Comma-Separated-Value-file-format[18].
  • comma-separated values's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 19663860[19].
  • comma-separated values's Uniform Type Identifier is recorded as public.comma-separated-values-text[20].
  • comma-separated values's subreddit is recorded as csv[21].
  • comma-separated values's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as CSV[22].
  • comma-separated values's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["FileFormat", "CSV-1"][23].
  • comma-separated values's GitHub topic is recorded as csv[24].
  • comma-separated values's NARA File Format Preservation Plan ID is recorded as NF00143[25].
  • comma-separated values's GitLab topic ID is recorded as csv[26].
  • comma-separated values's ComputerLanguage.com definition is recorded as comma+separated+values[27].

Body

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include file format[4] and delimiter-separated value format[5].

Why It Matters

comma-separated values ranks in the top 1% of file_format entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,423 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

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References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . ietf.org. Retrieved . ietf.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . digitalpreservation.gov. Retrieved . digitalpreservation.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . file-extension.info. file-extension.info. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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