porting

process of adapting software to run on other computing systems
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porting

Summary

porting ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (152 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • porting's subclass of is recorded as process[2].
  • porting's subclass of is recorded as software development[3].
  • porting's subclass of is recorded as change[4].
  • porting's said to be the same as is recorded as Q5677157[5].
  • porting's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01ff_c[6].
  • porting's criterion used is recorded as computing platform[7].
  • porting's product or material produced is recorded as port[8].
  • porting's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/porting[9].
  • porting's Quora topic ID is recorded as Porting-software-development[10].
  • porting's has goal is recorded as compatibility[11].
  • porting's has goal is recorded as interoperability[12].
  • porting's has goal is recorded as software portability[13].
  • porting's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 106251023[14].
  • porting's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C106251023[15].
  • porting's Gentoo Wiki article is recorded as Porting[16].

Why It Matters

porting ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (152 views/month).[1] porting has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] porting is known by 27 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

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

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). porting. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/porting
MLA “porting.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/porting.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_porting_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{porting}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/porting}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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