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microorganism

microscopic living organism
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microorganism
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Summary

microorganism ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,777 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: organism[2]
  • Part of: consortium[3]
  • Commons category: Microorganisms[4]
  • Unicode character: 🦠[5]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Microorganisms[6]
  • Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[7], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[8], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[9], Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[10]
  • Topic has template: Template:Microorganisms[11]
  • Different from: micro-animal[12]
  • Studied by: microbiology[13]
  • Union of: list of values as qualifiers[14]
  • WordLift URL: http://data.wordlift.io/wl01714/entity/microorganisms.html[15]

Why It Matters

microorganism has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] microorganism is known by 143 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

Related Entities

microbiology

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . fr.dentist. fr.dentist. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

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. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0004736-mikroorganismy
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0004736-mikroorganismy, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259495|batch #259495]]"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ Yso id, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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