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Pandoc

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Summary

Pandoc is a file converter[1]. Pandoc draws 1,296 Wikipedia views per month (file converter category, ranking #1 of 3).[2]

Key Facts

  • Creator: John MacFarlane[3]
  • Instance of: free software[4], software package[5]
  • Developer: John MacFarlane[6]
  • Collection: Social Sciences and Humanities Open Marketplace[7], Text Analysis Portal for Research[8], Q139831077[9]
  • Copyright license: GNU General Public License, version 2.0[10]
  • Programmed in: Haskell[11]
  • Operating system: Microsoft Windows[12], macOS[13], Unix-like operating system[14]
  • Software version identifier: 1.12.4.2[15], 1.17.2[16], 1.18[17], 1.19.1[18], 1.19[19], 1.17.1[20], 1.17.0.2[21], 1.17.0.1[22], 1.17[23], 1.16.0.2[24], 1.16.0.1[25], 1.16[26], 1.15.2[27], 1.15.1.1[28]

Why It Matters

Pandoc has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] Pandoc is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Related Entities

cross-platform free software John MacFarlane macOS Microsoft Windows Unix-like operating system

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . Scholarly Communication Technology Catalogue. Retrieved . web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . source code repository. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . marketplace.sshopencloud.eu. marketplace.sshopencloud.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . tapor.ca. tapor.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . openhub.net. Retrieved . openhub.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . pandoc.org. Retrieved . pandoc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . johnmacfarlane.net. Retrieved . johnmacfarlane.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . pandoc.org. Retrieved . pandoc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] ↑ . 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. 7d ago · Github-wiki-bot bot · 2026-10-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Software version identifier → 1.12.4.2, 1.17.2, 1.18 +159
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ Software version identifier, Update with GitHub data ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/CB/4cfae5df2553|details]])"
  2. 16d ago · Github-wiki-bot bot · 2026-09-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'bn', 'bs', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'io', 'ja', 'ko', 'pt', 'ru', '
    Sitelink count → 15
    Software version identifier → 1.12.4.2, 1.17.2, 1.18 +159
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ Software version identifier, Update with GitHub data ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/CB/bc19f2395d96|details]])"
  3. 6w ago · Github-wiki-bot bot · 2026-09-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Software version identifier → 1.12.4.2, 1.17.2, 1.18 +159
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ Software version identifier, Update with GitHub data ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/CB/9f0bc28b0c64|details]])"
  4. 8w ago · Pmartinolli · 2026-08-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described at url → https://tapor.ca/tools/1009, https://marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/tool-or-service/9x0XmY, https://pandoc.org/twenty-years-of-pandoc.html
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Described at url: https://pandoc.org/twenty-years-of-pandoc.html"
  5. 9w ago · Github-wiki-bot bot · 2026-08-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Software version identifier → 1.12.4.2, 1.17.2, 1.18 +159
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ Software version identifier, Update with GitHub data ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/CB/8e683d2fc3c3|details]])"
  6. 12w ago · Github-wiki-bot bot · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Software version identifier → 1.12.4.2, 1.17.2, 1.18 +159
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ Software version identifier, Update with GitHub data ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/CB/5f6bb84a06f8|details]])"
  7. 18w ago · Github-wiki-bot bot · 2026-06-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Software version identifier → 1.12.4.2, 1.17.2, 1.18 +159
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ Software version identifier, Update with GitHub data ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/CB/b28240b893c2|details]])"
  8. 21w ago · FuReSH2 · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Creator → John MacFarlane
    Inception → +2006-08-14T00:00:00Z
    Inception → —
    Writable file format → Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System, Jupyter notebook file, Markdown +36
    + 25 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Collection: Q139831077"
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