Japanese Wikipedia

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Japanese Wikipedia

Summary

Japanese Wikipedia is a Wikipedia language edition[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of wikipedia_language_edition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,148 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Japanese Wikipedia's instance of is recorded as Wikipedia language edition[3].
  • Japanese Wikipedia is owned by Wikimedia Foundation[4].
  • Japanese Wikipedia is operated by Wikimedia Foundation[5].
  • Japanese Wikipedia's copyright license is recorded as Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported[6].
  • Japanese Wikipedia's copyright license is recorded as GNU Free Documentation License[7].
  • Japanese Wikipedia's writing system is recorded as Japanese writing system[8].
  • Japanese Wikipedia's Commons category is recorded as Japanese Wikipedia[9].
  • Japanese Wikipedia's language of work or name is recorded as Japanese[10].
  • Japanese Wikipedia's Wikimedia language code is recorded as ja[11].
  • May 11, 2001 marks the founding of Japanese Wikipedia[12].
  • Japanese Wikipedia's official website is recorded as https://ja.wikipedia.org/[13].
  • Japanese Wikipedia's product or material produced is recorded as online encyclopedia[14].
  • Japanese Wikipedia's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'ja', 'text': 'ウィキペディア日本語版'}[15].
  • Japanese Wikipedia's IRC channel URL is recorded as irc://irc.freenode.net/#wikipedia-ja[16].
  • Japanese Wikipedia's hashtag is recorded as jawp[17].
  • Japanese Wikipedia's number of records is recorded as {'amount': '+1318959'}[18].
  • Japanese Wikipedia's number of records is recorded as {'amount': '+1492831'}[19].
  • Japanese Wikipedia's copyright status is recorded as copyrighted[20].
  • Japanese Wikipedia's API endpoint URL is recorded as https://ja.wikipedia.org/w/api.php[21].
  • Japanese Wikipedia's mailing list archive URL is recorded as https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/[22].
  • Japanese Wikipedia's DuckDuckGo bang is recorded as jawiki[23].
  • Japanese Wikipedia's DuckDuckGo bang is recorded as wj[24].
  • Japanese Wikipedia's DuckDuckGo bang is recorded as jawp[25].
  • Japanese Wikipedia's DuckDuckGo bang is recorded as wja[26].
  • Japanese Wikipedia's random page URL is recorded as 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[27].

Body

Founding

May 11, 2001 marks the founding of Japanese Wikipedia[12].

Identity

Japanese Wikipedia's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'ja', 'text': 'ウィキペディア日本語版'}[15].

Operations

Japanese Wikipedia is operated by Wikimedia Foundation[5].

Ownership

Japanese Wikipedia is owned by Wikimedia Foundation[4]. Its product or material produced is recorded as online encyclopedia[14].

Why It Matters

Japanese Wikipedia ranks in the top 1% of wikipedia_language_edition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,148 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . lists.wikimedia.org. lists.wikimedia.org. Provenance: 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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