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Melanesians

predominant inhabitants of Melanesia
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Summary

Melanesians is an indigenous people[1]. They ranks in the top 1% of indigenous people entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,183 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: human population[3]
  • Named after: Melanesia[4]
  • Location: Melanesia[5]
  • Subclass of: Pacific Islanders[6], inhabitant[7]
  • Residence: Melanesia[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Melanesian people[9]
  • Described by source: Labels for Locals[10], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[11], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7[13]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject PCC Wikidata Pilot/University of Washington[14]
  • Grammatical number: plural[15]
  • P14541: 1KaCje[16]

Why It Matters

Melanesians has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] They is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

Related Entities

Bronisław Malinowski Papua New Guinea

References

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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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 9d ago · 99of9 · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Grammatical number → plural
    Sitelink count → 35
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'be', 'ceb', 'de', 'en', 'eu', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'ha', 'hi', 'hr', 'hy',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Grammatical number: plural"
  2. 29d ago · Bischrob · 2026-09-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sociomap id → SM255727
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Sociomap id: SM255727, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/274927|batch #274927]]"
  3. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1KaCje
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Named after → —
    Described by source → Labels for Locals, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary +1
    Dewey decimal classification → 305.8995
    Residence → Melanesia
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007563005405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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