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optical fiber

light-conducting fiber
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Summary

optical fiber ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,533 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: glass fiber[2], optical waveguide[3], electromagnetic waveguide[4]
  • Part of: optical fiber cable[5]
  • Commons category: Optical fibers[6]
  • Has part(s): optical waveguide[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Optical fiber[8]
  • Commons gallery: Optical fiber[9]
  • Short name: LWL[10]
  • Different from: LWL[11]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[12]

Why It Matters

optical fiber has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . partner.gira.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . 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. 13d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Iev number → 151-12-35, 426-23-11, 704-02-07
    Semantic scholar topic id → 39414
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'ary', 'as', 'ast', 'az', 'bg', 'bn', 'bs', 'ca', 'ckb', 'commons',
    Sitelink count → 94
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Semantic scholar topic id: 39414, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/255241839|Optical fiber (#255241839)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7439|Semantic Scho"
  2. 5w ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Iev number → 151-12-35, 426-23-11, 704-02-07
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Iev number: 151-12-35, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/102056074|optical fibre (#102056074)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/3984|IEC 60050]] #mix"
  3. 6w ago · IdeasMagnet · 2026-09-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Openstreetmap way id → 1079327611
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Openstreetmap way id: 1079327611, Adding OSM way id claim from wikidata tag on way/1079327611 in United States"
  4. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0006181-opticka-vlakna
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0006181-opticka-vlakna, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  5. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → optical fiber cable
    Different from → LWL
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → glass fiber, optical waveguide, electromagnetic waveguide
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 11673, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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