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pandemic

epidemic of infectious disease that has spread across a large region with global health impact
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Summary

pandemic ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,272 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: epidemic[2], systemic risk[3], external risk[4]
  • Commons category: Pandemics[5]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Pandemics[6]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[7], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[8], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 9[9]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have[10], WikiProject Zika Corpus[11], WikiProject COVID-19[12], Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[13]
  • Handled, mitigated, or managed by: pandemic prevention[14]

Why It Matters

pandemic has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] pandemic is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Related Entities

I Am Legend

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . rockefellerfoundation.org. rockefellerfoundation.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). pandemic. Retrieved October 14, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/pandemic
MLA “pandemic.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 14 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/pandemic.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_pandemic_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{pandemic}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/pandemic}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-14}}
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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. 14w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-07-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Cambridge encyclopedia of anthropology id → pandemics
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Cambridge encyclopedia of anthropology id: pandemics, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/143368264|Pandemics (#143368264)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/27"
  2. 15w ago · Breogan2008 · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Enciclopedia galega universal id → 162738
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Enciclopedia galega universal id: 162738"
  3. 15w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → pandemic
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: pandemic, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289951500|pandemic (#289951500)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n"
  4. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0231326-pandemie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0231326-pandemie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259492|batch #259492]]"
  5. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Pandemics
    Subclass of → —
    Euronews topic id → pandemic
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 10121, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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