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Japanese Wikipedia

Japanese-language edition of Wikipedia
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Summary

Japanese Wikipedia is a Wikipedia language edition[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of wikipedia language edition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (14,877 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Owned by: Wikimedia Foundation[3]
  • Operator: Wikimedia Foundation[4]
  • Copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported[5], GNU Free Documentation License[6]
  • Writing system: Japanese writing system[7]
  • Commons category: Japanese Wikipedia[8]
  • Language of work or name: Japanese[9]
  • Wikimedia language code: ja[10]
  • Inception: May 11, 2001[11]
  • Official website: https://ja.wikipedia.org/[12]
  • Product or material produced: online encyclopedia[13]
  • Official name: ウィキペディア日本語版[14]
  • IRC channel URL: irc://irc.freenode.net/#wikipedia-ja[15]
  • Hashtag: jawp[16]
  • Number of records: 1,318,959[17], 1,492,831[18]
  • Copyright status: copyrighted[19]
  • API endpoint URL: https://ja.wikipedia.org/w/api.php[20]
  • Mailing list archive URL: https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikija-l@lists.wikimedia.org/[21]
  • DuckDuckGo bang: jawiki[22], wj[23], jawp[24], wja[25]
  • Random page URL: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%89%B9%E5%88%A5:%E3%81%8A%E3%81%BE%E3%81%8B%E3%81%9B%E8%A1%A8%E7%A4%BA[26]

Why It Matters

Japanese Wikipedia has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 73 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] ↑ . lists.wikimedia.org. lists.wikimedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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