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mancala

Summary

mancala ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,598 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • mancala is a type of board game[2].
  • mancala's Commons category is recorded as Mancala[3].
  • mancala's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Mancala[4].
  • mancala's Commons gallery is recorded as Mancala[5].
  • mancala's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[6].

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Definition and Type

mancala is a type of board game[2].

Why It Matters

mancala ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,598 views/month).[1] mancala has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[7] mancala is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[8]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . penn.museum. Retrieved . penn.museum. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [8] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Subclass of → board game
    Subclass of → —
    Aliases → —
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007545936705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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